Death Controls
Losing your hard-earned gear every time you die is one of the most frustrating parts of Minecraft. Whether you fell into lava in the Nether or got ambushed by a creeper in a cave, watching your enchanted diamond armor vanish into thin air never feels good. That is exactly where the Death Controls add-on changes everything. This Fabric mod gives you complete authority over what happens to your inventory, experience, and even your status effects when you respawn.
Unlike rigid death systems that force a single behavior on every player, Death Controls is built around a fully configurable JSON file powered by FlytreLib. That means you decide the rules, not the game.
What Makes Death Controls Stand Out
If you have ever played with corpse-style mods, you already understand the appeal of keeping your items safe. Death Controls is essentially the Fabric equivalent of Corpse Complex, offering a deep configuration system that covers nearly every aspect of dying and respawning. Instead of simply keeping or dropping everything, you can fine-tune each category of your inventory independently.
Here is a quick look at the core features you can tweak:
- Partial keep inventory: Choose separately whether your armor, hotbar, mainhand, offhand, and the main 27 inventory slots drop on death.
- Durability loss: Apply a percentage of durability damage to items you drop, items you keep, or both.
- Random drop and destroy chances: Set a chance for kept items to drop anyway, or for dropped items to be destroyed entirely.
- Item lists: Define lists of item IDs that should always be kept, always dropped, or always destroyed.
- Respawn effects: Automatically apply potion effects like Regeneration when you come back to life.
- Custom attribute effects: Modify max health, movement speed, attack damage, armor, and more for a set duration, with optional gradual recovery.
- Experience control: Decide what percentage of XP drops, how much is recoverable from orbs, and set a cap on total recoverable experience.
Supported Versions and Loader
Death Controls is built specifically for the Fabric loader, making it a natural fit for players who prefer lightweight, performance-friendly mod setups. It relies on FlytreLib, so make sure that library is installed alongside it. The mod supports modern Minecraft releases, and because the configuration is handled through a simple JSON file, updating your settings is straightforward across versions. After editing the config, run the /reloadconfig command in-game to apply your changes without restarting.
How to Install Death Controls
Getting started is simple, even if you are new to Fabric modding. Follow these steps:
- Install the Fabric loader for your Minecraft version.
- Place the FlytreLib library file into your mods folder.
- Add the Death Controls mod file to the same folder.
- Launch the game once to generate the configuration file.
- Open the config, adjust the values to your liking, and run /reloadconfig.
When you are ready to download Death Controls, grab both the mod and its required library from a trusted source, and always match the file to your exact game version to avoid crashes.
For players who want a smoother setup, the foxygame.net launcher streamlines the entire process by letting you install Death Controls with a single click and keeping every add-on automatically updated, so you never have to hunt down a compatible build again.
Why Players Love the Configurable Approach
Servers and solo worlds have very different needs, and Death Controls respects that. A hardcore survival server might set a high durability loss and a chance to destroy dropped items to keep the stakes high. A casual creative-leaning world might keep everything and simply apply a short Regeneration effect on respawn. Because every value lives in one editable file, you can shift between these philosophies in seconds.
The experience settings deserve special attention too. By separating the percentage of XP that drops from the percentage that is recoverable, you can create a system where death stings but never feels punishing. Capping recoverable XP also prevents exploits on long-running servers.
Final Thoughts
Death Controls for Minecraft hands the reins of one of the game's harshest mechanics directly to you. From keeping your armor and hotbar to fine-tuning XP recovery and respawn buffs, it delivers the flexibility that vanilla Minecraft has always lacked. If you are tired of losing everything to a single misstep, this Fabric add-on is well worth adding to your mod list. Set your rules, reload your config, and take control of death once and for all.