Hullspark Death Log

The problem You died, respawned, and ten minutes later you cannot remember where it was or what killed you. The death screen is gone the moment you click Respawn.

Where you see it In the chat box, and only when you ask. Open chat, type /deathlog and press Enter. There is no HUD, no gravestone, no teleport and no map marker. Each line is one death, newest first (example):

#1 2026-10-01 01:01 UTC overworld (20, 111, 20) — Steve fell from a high place #2 2026-10-01 01:00 UTC overworld (-5, 160, -4) — Steve was killed

A line shows the number, the time (UTC), the dimension, the block position X Y Z and the death message. Before your first death it answers: No deaths recorded yet.

What you can do

• Die as usual. Every death is written down on its own, nothing to switch on.
• Run /deathlog whenever you want to find the spot or remember the cause. Walk back to the coordinates, or note what to avoid next time.
• Back up or copy the world as usual. The history is a file in the world's own save folder (deathlog.json), so it travels with the world and is still there after you quit and come back.

The result You always have the place and the cause of your last deaths, a few keystrokes away, without any screen cluttering your play.

What it keeps

• Your 20 most recent deaths. Older ones drop off the end.
• Each player sees only their own deaths.
• A missing or damaged deathlog.json does not crash the game. A damaged file is set aside as deathlog.json.corrupt-<time> and the log starts empty (covered by unit tests; not yet reproduced on a real machine).

Where to install it

• Singleplayer: install it like any other Fabric mod. It works right away.
• Dedicated server: install it on the server. Deaths and the command are handled there.

Requirements Fabric Loader and Fabric API. Available for Minecraft 1.21.11 and 26.3 (pick the file for your version).

Known limitations

• Times are shown in UTC, not your local time.
• The death message is stored once, as the server wrote it (English on most dedicated servers), not in each player's own language. A death caused by another mod's damage type that has no translation on the server can show as a raw key such as death.attack.foo.
• It tells you where you died. It does not guide you back, show a marker or keep your items.
• Tested in singleplayer. Not yet tested on a dedicated server, and not tested with a vanilla client joining a server that has the mod.
• Checked against the death screen for /kill, a real fall and a cactus. Other causes use the same code path but are not all checked.
• The 20-entry limit, a death cancelled by a totem of undying (not recorded) and a damaged file are covered by unit tests only.

Source: https://github.com/hullspark/fabric-mods

Disclosure: this mod was developed with AI assistance (Claude) and reviewed by the author. It does not reuse code or assets from other mods. It does not collect or transmit any data.