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Turn item durability into a configurable death penalty while keeping Minecraft's normal item-damage system.
Item Durability Loss on Death moves durability loss from ordinary item use to player death.
By default, using tools, weapons, and armor does not consume durability. When a player dies, equipped armor, the offhand item, and hotbar items lose a configurable amount of durability instead.
Affected slots, durability loss, break behavior, exclusions, ordinary wear, and player notifications are all controlled through the server configuration.
Item durability normally acts as a gradual maintenance cost. Tools, weapons, and armor wear down through ordinary use, encouraging regular repairs or replacement.
This mod offers a different balance model: equipment remains reliable during normal gameplay, but death carries a lasting material cost.
The result works particularly well for servers and modpacks that use keepInventory or other systems that reduce item loss on death. Players keep their equipment, but repeated deaths still consume resources through repairs and eventual replacement.
Ordinary durability loss can remain enabled, allowing the death penalty to supplement vanilla wear instead of replacing it entirely.
With the default configuration:
Only damageable items are processed. Items without durability are ignored.
All of this behavior can be adjusted or disabled through the server configuration.
When a player dies, the mod checks each enabled equipment or inventory slot and applies the configured durability loss to eligible items.
Durability damage applied on death is routed through Minecraft and Forge's standard item-damage path. This allows mechanics such as Unbreaking and compatible modded durability-reduction bonuses to participate automatically.
The final durability loss can therefore differ between otherwise identical items depending on their enchantments and modifiers.
Server owners can configure:
By default, durability damage can reduce an item to zero durability and break it normally.
Item breaking can be disabled in the configuration. When breaking is disabled, affected items stop at their minimum remaining durability instead of being destroyed.
This allows death to create a meaningful repair cost without permanently deleting equipment.
The server configuration can limit which items are affected.
Filters can be used to:
Filters use item registry IDs, making them suitable for both vanilla and modded equipment.
After durability loss is processed, the player can receive one compact chat message summarizing the result.
Detailed information is available by hovering over the message, including the affected items and the durability loss applied to each one. This avoids filling the chat with a separate message for every equipment or hotbar slot.
Notifications can be disabled through the server configuration.
Ordinary durability loss is disabled by default.
When this option is disabled, supported item damage caused by normal use is prevented. Tools, weapons, and armor instead lose durability primarily through the configured death penalty.
Server owners can re-enable ordinary wear to use both systems together.
The mod relies on Minecraft and Forge's standard item-damage events. Compatibility is not guaranteed for mods that bypass normal item damage and directly edit an item's stored damage value.
All gameplay settings are controlled by the server configuration.
Available options cover:
The configuration file is generated automatically after the first launch.
For dedicated servers, restart the server after manually editing the configuration.
For modpacks, a prepared configuration can be placed in the appropriate default configuration directory so that it is applied to newly created worlds.
Item Durability Loss on Death uses Minecraft and Forge's standard durability systems wherever possible.
This allows the mod to work automatically with:
keepInventoryCompatibility is not guaranteed for mods that bypass normal item damage and directly edit an item's damage value.
Mods that replace player death handling, copy inventory contents, or reconstruct item stacks after the death event may require compatibility testing.
Supported platform:
Install the mod file in the server's mods folder.
The mod is server-authoritative. On dedicated servers, it can be installed server-side only. Players do not need the mod on their clients to join, receive durability changes, or view the detailed chat notification.
For singleplayer, install the mod in the player's Minecraft instance because the integrated server runs inside that instance.
No dependencies beyond Forge are required.
You may include the unmodified mod in public or private modpacks without asking for permission.
Item Durability Loss on Death is distributed under the Apache License 2.0.
