Tomb Many Graves Continued

By
moos2333

An unofficial 1.12.2 fork of M4thG33k's TombManyGraves2 with 70–85% smaller grave NBT, stability fixes, Betweenlands support, and right-click pickup.

TombManyGraves Continued

An unofficial fork of TombManyGraves2 by M4thG33k (GitHub). Not affiliated with or endorsed by the original author.

Minecraft: 1.12.2 · Forge: 14.23.5.2847 · Fork maintainer: moos2333

About

When a player dies, their items are stored in a grave at the place of death and can be recovered later by the player or their friends. This fork keeps the original mod's behavior and focuses on stability, smaller grave data, and safer item recovery.

What's New

Smaller grave data — grave NBT is compressed, reducing saved size by 70–85%. This reduces chunk sync payload size and save file footprint; it does not change tick or frame performance.
Right-click pickup — unlocked graves can be looted with a right-click. The original sneak-to-loot behavior still works.
Safer force-mode recovery — when a grave forces items back into their original slots and a slot is occupied, non-stackable items (tools, armor, equipment) are moved to a free slot instead of being dropped. If the inventory is full, the occupying item stays and the grave item is dropped instead. Stackable items keep the original behavior.
Betweenlands support built in — amulets and equipment are saved with the grave and returned on recovery.
Stability fixes — corrupted friend lists are backed up instead of overwritten, commands no longer crash from a command block or console, dedicated servers no longer throw tooltip errors, keepInventory deaths no longer strand items, and a failing compatibility plugin no longer aborts the whole grave-capture process.

Features

Grave block at the point of death, with configurable search radius and fluid/plant replacement.
Camo rendering, player skull, and death angle.
Sneak + right-click to lock/unlock, right-click to loot, collision pickup (optional sneak), locked grave + right-click to toggle force mode.
Death inventory list with a GUI and a particle trail back to the grave.
Friend system and optional grave-robbing for servers.
Commands: tmg_drop, tmg_restore, tmg_steal, tmg_pop_grave, tmg_getDeathList, tmg_friends, tmg_toggle_render, tmg_toggle_grave_pos.
Per-player JSON inventory backups.

Compatibility

All integrations are optional. The mod loads normally if they are not installed.

Mod	What it adds
The Betweenlands	Amulets and equipment are saved with the grave
Baubles	Ring and amulet slots are saved
Aether Legacy	Accessory slots are saved
Galacticraft Legacy	Galacticraft inventory is saved
Techguns	Techguns player inventory is saved
Cosmetic Armor Reworked	Cosmetic armor slots are saved
Backpacks	Backpack contents are saved
JEI	Not required, compile-time only

Notes

If you previously relied on replaceStillLava = false to stop graves from replacing water, set replaceStillWater = false explicitly. The old key was a bug.
On servers running Java 8 with a non-UTF-8 locale, add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to the JVM arguments.

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Original copyright notices are preserved. Modifications are documented in the changelog and commit history. Full text: LICENSE, or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt. This fork is not affiliated with or endorsed by M4thG33k. Binary distribution requires making the corresponding source code available under GPLv3.

Acknowledgments

M4thG33k — author of Tomb Many Graves and TombManyGraves2.
Tiffit — upstream contributor.
moos2333 — maintainer of this fork.
RetroFuturaGradle, CleanroomMC, GTNH — tooling and Maven hosting.

AI-assisted development; all code reviewed, tested, and maintained by human contributors. Not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft; Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang Synergies AB.