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.