My friends and I have played through enough Minecraft worlds that the game has in many ways become too easy, and so we've considered playing in hardcore mode as a solution. But, playing in hardcore is too punishing for most casual playthroughs. This mod adds a block called the Buy Station, which allows you to revive players in spectator mode at the cost of levels. Each time a player is revived their revive cost increases, adding increasing danger with each death, so dying remains punishing and failure is possible, without having everyone's fun ruined by random misfortunes.
For an even softer experience, consider adding Hardcore Revival
- 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: 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 hardcore_redeploy-1.1.1-forge.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 108 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.