Vaskars Remains

Lootable, draggable bodies for everything that dies, including you. Bodies rot in 5 stages, show how they died, and are left lying around the world.

Forge 1.20.1 · NeoForge 1.21.1 · Fabric as well. needed on client and server

Features

• Every death leaves a body: players, mobs and NPCs. Animal bodies are optional.
• Loot piece by piece: each click takes one item, from pockets, weapon and armour down to the arrow still stuck in the body.
• 5 decay stages: fresh, bloated, opened, tattered, bones. By default a body goes from fresh to bones in 10 minutes, then the bones sink into the ground and drop what they still carry. Cold slows it down.
• Visible causes of death, such as stabbed, slashed, beheaded, burnt, frozen, drowned, crushed, poisoned, mauled and starved. Skeletons keep the marks too: cracks, rusted holes, bite marks, algae.
• Ragdoll deaths: bodies fall away from the hit and stay where they land.
• Blood: pools under fresh bodies, splatter on walls from hard blows, and drag trails that dry and wash away in the rain.
• The dead rise: a fresh body left out in the dark can get up as a zombie, in its armour and with its name.
• Crows, flies and scavengers: crows land on bodies, and wolves, foxes and zombies stop to eat.

Your own body (grave mod)

• When you die, you leave a body in your own skin with your inventory, armour, XP and Curios items.
• One click puts everything back, armour included.
• It can't be destroyed by explosions, and a body that falls into the void waits at the edge of the world.
• Works with keepInventory (the body is then empty).
• If Corpse, GraveStone, Tombstone or YIGD is installed, Remains leaves player deaths to that mod.

What you can do with a body

The dead in the world

• Lone bodies spawn in snow, forests, mountains, jungles, swamps, deserts, beaches, oceans, caves, mineshafts, dungeons, dripstone caves, the Deep Dark, the Nether and the End.
• Scenes: camps, gallows, hanging trees, graves, shipwrecks, robbed caravans, battlefields, a ruined castle and a ruined hamlet.
• On your first join, a few fresh bodies lie in front of you, and you get a lead, an arrow and a book that explains everything.

Settings

All settings are in an in-game menu and in config/remains-common.toml.

• Brutality: bones only, mild (no blood), rough, or full.
• Decay time and what happens at the end (bones sink, stay, or the body despawns).
• Which deaths leave a body (player kills, any kill, or every death), and mob farm protection.
• The Slayer enchantment: whatever it kills always leaves a body.
• Blood, wounds, flies, crows, scavengers, sickness, dragging and searching can each be switched off.
• Light mode for weak PCs.

Extras

• Advancements for searching, dragging, hanging, nailing, burying and taking your things back, plus Coroner (find 8 different causes of death).
• Creative body editor: set decay stage, cause of death, identity and a pose you shape limb by limb.
• Outfits, poses and loot are data pack files.

Compatibility

Bodies for the people of other mods

• Soldiers and followers from Recruits (Forge), Frontier Cohorts (NeoForge) and Guard Villagers.
• Coming with the next update: Villagers Reborn, MCA Reborn, Player Mobs, MineColonies, Modern Companions, Human Companions, Easy NPC, Custom NPCs, Hominid, TACZ NPCs, Hostile Humans, Bandit NPC and AW NPCs.
• Any other mob can be added with the entity tag #remains:fighters.

Works with

• Curios, JEI, Jade
• Vaskars Opus and Vaskars Bestiary: made to work together; the peoples of Opus leave bodies that rot down to bones.
• Grave mods: Corpse, GraveStone, Tombstone, YIGD
• Tested on Forge with Embeddium, Oculus (shaders), Create and Xaero's Minimap
• Modpacks: yes. A link back is appreciated.

More from Vaskar: Vaskars Opus adds peoples at war, quests and boss fights on top of Remains.

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