Right-clicking with a totem adds them to your additional lives! Essentially combining the best of 1-Up from Mario and Totem of Undying from the base game!
This mod was inspired by a post on reddit almost 4 years ago by u/That-Reward-7034:
"I never use totems of undying in my worlds and usually play a vanilla+ style of Minecraft with qol mods or difficulty mods.
I was thinking it would be cool if there was a difficulty mod that gave you 3 lives at the start of the new world generation. In this mod, totems of undying would be changed to basically be 1-up consumables, adding to your number of lives left.
I’ve seen a couple limited lives mods but never came across anything like I mentioned. I’m curious how many people use totems of undying outside of hardcore. I don’t mind the idea of limited lives but I’m not ready to commit to a hardcore world lol."
- 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 one_up_totems-merged-1.20.1-1.0.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 162 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.