
TinyFish Death Penalty
Adds a death countdown: players are frozen on death, then respawn with partial health—dying finally has a price.
⬇ Download on Modrinth
Death Penalty — Make Death Matter Again In Minecraft, enabling keepInventory protects your items but removes the consequence of death—often turning it into a free heal or a "fast travel" exploit back to base. Death Penalty introduces an innovative balance mechanism: The Death Countdown. When you die, you don't respawn immediately. Instead, you enter a mandatory "fake death" countdown. During this penalty period, you are immobilized and must wait for the timer to finish. More importantly, rebirth doesn't mean a full recovery—you respawn with a weakened body (customizable health/hunger), adding a real cost to every mistake. This mod retains the convenience of keeping your inventory while ensuring that death still carries a meaningful price.
✨ Key Features
- ⏳ Death Countdown: Prevents players from using death as a quick teleport or instant heal.
- 👁️ Immersive Experience:
- Seamless Respawn: Skip the vanilla "You Died" screen entirely. Once the timer ends, you are instantly revived at your spawn point.
- Free Camera: Look around freely during the countdown (position remains locked) to observe your surroundings.
- HUD & Interaction Hiding: Automatically hides the vanilla HUD and blocks all interactions (inventory, blocks, items) during the penalty, leaving you to reflect on your demise.
- ❤️ Weakened State: Respawning isn't free. Configure the exact Health and Hunger you wake up with (supports fixed values like "10" or percentages like "50%").
- 💬 Fully Customizable:
- Message System: Rename damage types (e.g., "Fall" -> "Gravity Check") and define random death messages (e.g., "Hesitation is defeat"). Supports color codes and placeholders.
- Flexible Config: Adjust countdown duration, UI scaling, void death handling, and more.
- 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 death_penalty-0.3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 47 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
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