Selective Keep Items lets you decide which items stay with players after death by defining them in a config file, giving you full control over what is preserved and what is lost.
This is useful for protecting important items, without changing normal death behavior for everything else.
Features:
- Choose kept items in a config file
- Lets the rest of the inventory drop normally
For example, you can keep valuable tools or armor, while still making death feel meaningful.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as selective_keep_items-1.0-26.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 17 KB
- Download link checked 22 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.