

Choose Death
This plugin allows player to choose of more or less difficult death. Great for SMPs with a mix of new and veteran players !
Death Difficulties
- PEACEFUL:
- Keep items and experience points
- Respawn at last respawn point
- EASY:
- Creates a private grave at death location
- Respawn at last respawn point
- Note: If the server is in Peaceful mode, grave won't spawn, and you will lose all your items
- NORMAL:
- Normal Minecraft death
- HARD:
- Lose items and experience points
- Respawn at last respawn point
- HARDCORE:
- Lose items and experience points
- Respawn at world spawn
Commands
/choosedeath reload: Reloads plugin- permission :
choosedeath.commands.reload
- permission :
/choosedeath open: Opens up the menu to change your death difficulty- permission :
choosedeath.commands.open
- permission :
/choosedeath set <DeathDifficulty> [<Player>]: Change your death difficulty- permission :
choosedeath.commands.set - permission :
choosedeath.commands.set.targetfor setting other players difficulty
- permission :
/choosedeath setitem <DeathDifficulty>: Change the menu item for a set difficulty- permission :
choosedeath.commands.setitem
- permission :
Disclaimer
This is my first ever released plugin. It's real bare bones for now but I plan on adding stuff in the future. Also, the code is open source so feel free to take a look and propose changes !
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Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.10
- 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 ChooseDeath-2.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 1020 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.