✨ Lightweight, configurable death messages for Paper/Spigot servers.
Features
- 🎯 Replace vanilla death messages with your own templates
- 🎨 MiniMessage formatting support
- 🧩 Optional PlaceholderAPI support (PAPI placeholders)
- 💬 Optional InteractiveChat support
- 🔄
/bubbledeathmessage reload(alias:/bdm)
Dependencies
- ✅ None required.
Optional (soft-depend):
- 🧩 PlaceholderAPI — enables
%placeholders%inside your message templates - 💬 InteractiveChat — broadcasts through InteractiveChat when present
Commands
- 🔧
/bubbledeathmessage reload(alias:/bdm)
Permissions
- 🔐
bubbledeathmessage.reload(default: op)
Configuration
Messages are MiniMessage strings.
Built-in placeholders:
<player><player_displayname><killer><killer_displayname>(may be empty)<cause><world><x><y><z>
If PlaceholderAPI is installed, PAPI placeholders like %vault_prefix% are supported.
Example (config.yml):
messages:
default: "<gray><player> died.</gray>"
ENTITY_ATTACK: "<red><player> was slain by <killer></red>"
FALL: "<gray><player> fell from a high place.</gray>"
settings:
suppress-vanilla: true
use-interactivechat-if-present: true
Compatibility
- Java 17
- Paper 1.21.x
Source / Issues
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 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 BubbleDeathMessage-1.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 11 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.