
Pocket Totem
Pocket Totem — a lightweight Vanilla+ mod that allows the Totem of Undying to trigger from any inventory slot, keeping your off-hand free for shields and…
⬇ Download on Modrinth🛡️ Pocket Totem — Passive Immortality!
Have you ever lost all your netherite gear in lava just because you forgot to put the Totem of Undying in your off-hand? Or are you tired of constantly sacrificing your shield just to stay safe? Pocket Totem solves this problem once and for all!
This lightweight, Vanilla+ mod unlocks the true passive magic of the totem, allowing it to protect your life directly from the depths of your backpack.
✨ Key Features
- 🧳 Pocket Salvation — The totem automatically triggers from absolutely any slot in your player inventory.
- ⚔️ Total Off-Hand Freedom — Free up your hands! Safely carry shields, torches, maps, or dual-wield weapons while remaining fully protected.
- 🔮 100% Vanilla Sync — No stripped mechanics. Upon activation, it triggers the original full-screen golden flash animation, vanilla status effects, and sounds.
- 🏆 Advancement Supported — Unlike poorly optimized scripts, this custom code hooks perfectly into the game server to award you the official "Postmortal" advancement.
⚙️ Smart Anti-Bug Logic (How It Works)
We made sure the mod runs flawlessly without breaking any vanilla mechanics or causing item dupe bugs:
- Hand Priority: If you are holding a totem in your main or off-hand, standard Minecraft code takes over. The inventory scan only triggers if your hands are busy. This 100% prevents the "double-spending" bug where one hit could accidentally consume two totems.
- Ultimate Optimization: The code caches the inventory size and triggers only at the microsecond of death. It does not run on every game tick, ensuring zero impact on server performance or FPS.
🚀 Setup & Environment
⚠️ IMPORTANT: This is a hybrid mod (Side: BOTH). It must be installed on both the server and the client. The client handles the screen flash rendering, while the server securely cancels the death event and updates the inventory slots.
- Mod Loader: NeoForge
- Supported Versions: 1.21.4 - 1.21.8+
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.8
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Ships as pocket_totem-1.0.0-neoforge-1.21.8.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 86 KB
- Download link checked 22 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.