Have you ever wanted to try out the great gamemodes from the prime Minecraft era, but you found out they are only for version 1.16?
DeathSwapModern is a replication of the famous Death Swap mod in the recent version. It has also death counter and automatic changes in respawn points, so nothing disturbs your game flow. The order the game swaps between players is random and different every swap, so players have chance to meet with traps from different people. Players are notified 30 and 10 seconds before the swap in their action bar.
Usage:
/startdeathswap, /startds or /start + duration in between swaps in minutes (e.g.: /start 5 for 5 minutes between swaps) to start the game
/stopdeathswap or /stopds to stop the game and display results
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2
- 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.
- Ships as deathswap-1.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 13 KB
- Download link checked 7 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.