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Features:
- Adding a variety of new death messages.
- There are now over 35 death messages introduced.
Death Messages:
The following list contains all death messages added by the mod. It is highly discouraged to read this list as spoiling all of the death messages can take the fun out of them.
- <victim> slipped in water – Fixes a rare death message from Vanilla.
- <killer> forced <victim> to eat too many cookies – Die to something using a cookie as a weapon.
- <killer> gave <victim> a lecture in death – Die to something using a book as a weapon.
- <killer> chopped <victim> to pieces – Die to something using an axe as a weapon.
- <victim> was thwarted by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was bonked by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was defeated by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was butchered by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was assassinated by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was eliminated by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim>’s life was extinguished by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was terminated by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was done in by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was executed by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <killer> put a stop to <victim> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was stifled by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was slaughtered by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was exterminated by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was vanquished by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was bested by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> was trounced by <killer> – Alternative generic death message.
- <victim> went down with the ship – Not yet implements 🙁
- <victim> was incinerated by <killer> – Killed by a blaze.
- <victim> was reduced to ash by <killer> – Killed by a blaze.
- <victim> was cooked alive by <killer> – Killed by a blaze.
- <victim> succame to <killer> venom – Killed by a Cave Spider.
- <victim> became <killer> food – Killed by a slime.
- <victim> was dissolved by <killer> – Killed by a slime.
- <victim> did not respect <killer>’s habitat – Killed by a Polar Bear.
- <victim> disturbed <killer>’s den – Killed by a Polar Bear.
- <killer> sent <victim> to a watery grave – Killed by a drowned.
- <victim> was stared down by <killer> – Killed by a Guardian.
- <victim> didn’t bounce – Alternative fall damage message.
- <victim> was slain by Gravity – Alternative fall damage message.
- <victim> forgot their parachute – Alternative fall damage message.
- <victim> couldn’t hold their breath – Alternative drowning message.
- <victim> is sleeping with the fishes – Alternative drowning message.
- <victim> became fish food – Alternative drowning message.
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Death Knell Mod Download Links
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as 27394.mcaddon
- Download size: 26 KB
- Download link checked 25 Sept 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.