Do you heavily dislike needing to retrieve your items and EXP after every death, but you feel that using keep inventory is cheaty?
Alternative Punishments is a mod that adds a different punishment for death- losing your max health. This may sound bad, however, it really isn't. Each death, you lose 1 heart, up to a maximum of 5. If you eat a Golden Apple, you regain a heart. If you eat an Enchanted Golden Apple, all of your health will be restored.
This mod currently forces your world to have keep inventory on. I plan to make this a config.
Planned Features:
- Dedicated antidote item
- Force keep inventory config
- Antidote heal amount config
- Health to remove on death config
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.4
- 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 alternative_punishments-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 15 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.