
Difficulty Death Scaler
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Difficulty Death Scaler
A fabric mod scaling difficulty on number of death like Demon's Soul.
When a player dies, the mod increases the difficulty.
After 12 hours, if no one has died, or if you killed a boss, the difficulty is reset to the previous stage. If you were at 8 deaths, the mod will forget 3 deaths, and you will now be at 5 deaths.
Check the wiki to understand how the mod works. It has a lot of features including:
- penalizing player who dies every 5 seconds
- scoped difficulty (one global and one per player)
- increasing difficulty automatically if the game is too simple
- decreasing difficulty if players didn't die
The mod must be installed on a server. It will not work for clients, even if you are in singleplayer! Why? This mod was designed to be only played in multiplayer (it can block your singleplayer world).
Command
The mod adds one command: /difficultydeathscaler (or /dds)
/difficultydeathscaler getgives the current global difficulty (or/ddsg)/difficultydeathscaler get [player]gives the current player difficulty (/ddspgives your current difficulty)/difficultydeathscaler set global [number of death]sets the number of death in global difficulty (OP command)/difficultydeathscaler set player [player] difficulty [number of death]sets the number of death in player difficulty (OP command)/difficultydeathscaler set player [player] daily-death [number of death]sets the number of death in 24h for targeted player (OP command)
Configuration
This mod can be configured via gamerules.
Check the wiki to have more information.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as difficultydeathscaler-2.2.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 170 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.