soulsort

SoulSort

When you die without keepInventory, your items scatter on the ground — and picking them back up dumps everything into random slots. Your armor doesn't go back on, your hotbar is a mess, and another player's loot can get mixed in with yours. That's not part of the challenge; it's just tedious cleanup after the danger has passed.

SoulSort fixes only that. Dying still costs you the same — items drop, you can still lose them, others can still grab them first. The one thing it changes is what happens when you recover an item: it goes back exactly where it was.

What it does

The instant before you die, SoulSort records the exact layout of your hotbar, inventory, armor, and off-hand. As you pick your items back up, each one slides into its original slot — armor and shields re-equip themselves automatically.

It handles the tricky cases too:

• If a slot is taken by something else, the intruder is moved aside to make room.
• Identical items split across slots are consolidated sensibly.
• Died more than once? Only one death is restored at a time — the first pile you touch becomes active, so multiple deaths never scramble each other.

Grave mod support

Many "grave" or "tombstone" mods put your items in a chest at your death spot instead of dropping them. SoulSort doesn't care which mod made it — pull your items out and they sort back into place the same way.

Server-side & configurable

All the logic runs server-side, so it behaves identically in singleplayer or multiplayer. Commands let each player turn it on/off, disable armor or off-hand restoring, exclude specific items, or change how long a death is remembered. Server owners get a config file to set policy for everyone.

Command

/soulsort on / off                     master switch

/soulsort armor on / off           auto re-equip armor on picku

/soulsort container on / off      also restore items taken out of a chest/grave (see below)

/soulsort expire <seconds>     how long an un-recovered death is remembered (server caps this)

/soulsort <ids> on / off            stop/resume sorting specific items, comma separated, e.g. /soulsort glass,stone,command_block off 

/soulsort list                            show your current settings

/soulsort list on all                   re-enable sorting for every excluded item (armor/offhand unaffected)

Availability

Available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge — on both Minecraft 1.21.11 and 26.2.