Better Revive

Death doesn't always have to mean an instant respawn.

Better Revive changes the normal Minecraft death system and gives players a chance to bring each other back.

When a player dies from a revivable cause, they don't immediately get sent to the respawn screen. Instead, they enter a downed state and their inventory, equipment and experience are stored inside a protected grave.

From there, the player can wait for someone to revive them or simply choose to respawn normally and return to the grave later.

There are different ways to revive someone. You can use one of the three Revive Potions, or try to bring them back without a potion by completing the Life Pulse minigame.

I wanted the mod to work just as well in a normal survival world as it does on multiplayer servers or in larger modpacks, so most of the important mechanics can be configured by the server owner.

Main Features

• Downed state instead of immediately dying
• Graves that store inventory, armor, offhand items, experience and supported add-on inventories
• Three different tiers of throwable Revive Potions
• Manual reviving without a potion through the Life Pulse minigame
• The downed player has to accept revival attempts
• Configurable revive timers and revive locks
• Configurable Life Pulse difficulty
• Configurable health, food and debuffs after being revived
• Grave Compass for finding and managing your grave
• Revive Scroll for returning to distant graves
• Public Collection Crates after grave protection expires
• Configurable final-death damage types and dimensions
• Cross-dimension grave recovery
• Multiple and temporary grave support
• Optional grave chunk loading
• Graves and downed players survive server restarts
• Administration menu and useful server commands
• Support for singleplayer, multiplayer and dedicated servers

How Death Works

If you die from something that allows revival, Better Revive first stores your items and experience inside a grave.

Instead of respawning immediately, you enter the downed state. You can still see what is happening around your grave while waiting for another player to help you.

The downed screen shows how much revival time you have left and whether you currently have an active revive lock.

You don't have to wait for someone. If you want to continue playing normally, you can always select:

Respawn now (no revival)

This ends the current revival opportunity, but your grave stays in the world so you can recover your items later.

If another player successfully revives you, the grave contents are restored and you are returned to a safe position near the grave.

If the revival timer runs out, the death becomes final and the grave eventually moves into its public collection phase.

Revive Potions

Better Revive has three Revive Potion tiers.

To use one, simply throw it near the grave of a downed player. The potion searches for the nearest valid grave and sends a revival request to its owner.

The downed player can see who is trying to revive them, which potion is being used and how long the offer will remain available.

Nothing happens automatically. The player has to accept the revival first.

Potion	Brewing Recipe	Revive Health	After-Effects
Revive Potion I	Splash Potion + Golden Apple	1 heart	Slowness, Hunger and Weakness for 30 seconds
Revive Potion II	Revive Potion I + Honeycomb	3 hearts	Slowness, Hunger and Weakness for 15 seconds
Revive Potion III	Revive Potion II + Blaze Rod	5 hearts	No negative effects

Potion revivals also restore the player's food level.

After a successful revival, the configured revive lock is applied so players can't simply be revived over and over without any downtime.

Brewing the Potions

All Revive Potions are made in a normal Brewing Stand.

1. Brew a Splash Potion together with a Golden Apple to create Revive Potion I.
2. Brew Revive Potion I with a Honeycomb to create Revive Potion II.
3. Brew Revive Potion II with a Blaze Rod to create Revive Potion III.

Input	Ingredient	Result
Splash Potion	Golden Apple	Revive Potion I
Revive Potion I	Honeycomb	Revive Potion II
Revive Potion II	Blaze Rod	Revive Potion III

Just like normal Minecraft brewing, you can brew up to three potions at the same time.

Manual Revival and Life Pulse

Revive Potions aren't the only way to save someone.

If you interact with another player's grave without holding a Revive Potion, you can request a manual revival.

The downed player still has to accept your request. After that, the Life Pulse minigame starts for the player performing the revival.

The basic idea is simple: stop the moving needle inside the target area enough times before the timer runs out.

It becomes harder as the attempt continues, and the server owner can configure most parts of the minigame.

Life Pulse supports:

• Configurable number of successful hits
• Configurable number of allowed misses
• Configurable attempt duration
• Configurable retry delay after failing
• Changing target positions
• Changing target sizes
• Configurable starting speed
• Configurable speed increase
• Configurable maximum speed
• Optional changing needle direction
• Separate hit and miss sounds
• Configurable revival health
• Configurable food level
• Configurable revive lock
• Configurable debuffs after revival
• Harmful effects added by other mods

There can only be one active helper at a time.

Other players can request to take over the attempt, and the downed player can also block a specific helper for the current death.

The attempt is cancelled if the helper takes damage or moves too far away from the grave.

Revive Potions always have priority, so a potion revival can take over an active Life Pulse attempt.

Revive Locks

By default, Life Pulse cannot be started while the downed player still has an active revive lock.

The helper receives a message explaining why the attempt cannot be started instead of opening a minigame that has no chance of succeeding.

Server owners can change this behavior and allow manual revivals during an active revive lock.

Graves and Item Recovery

The grave system is an important part of Better Revive because I don't want the revival mechanic to come at the cost of randomly losing items.

A grave can store:

• Main inventory
• Armor
• Offhand item
• Experience
• Supported inventories from other mods and Better Revive add-ons

Graves are placed without replacing blocks that are already occupied and can also be placed correctly around water.

After respawning, simply right-click your grave to get your items back.

The restoration system also checks whether inventory slots are already occupied. If something is in a slot that Better Revive wants to restore, the existing item is moved instead of simply being overwritten.

If your inventory doesn't have enough space for everything, the remaining items stay safe instead of silently disappearing.

The grave system also supports:

• Configurable retained experience
• Owner protection
• Larger and modded inventories
• Grave persistence after server restarts
• Dimension-aware grave tracking
• Multiple deaths
• Temporary graves
• Safe inventory capture and restoration
• Fallback storage if an add-on is missing or temporarily unavailable

Grave Compass

If you respawn while you still have an active grave, Better Revive gives you a Grave Compass.

It helps you find the correct grave instead of forcing you to remember where you died.

The compass stores the grave location and dimension and can show the distance and direction while you are travelling.

Using the compass opens a complete grave overview where you can see:

• Grave coordinates
• Dimension
• Distance
• Equipped items
• Inventory contents
• Additional stored items
• Remaining grave lifetime

The timer updates while the menu is open.

If the grave is in another dimension, the compass tells you instead of pointing toward a meaningless position in your current dimension.

The grave owner can also dissolve the grave from the overview. This removes the grave and drops its remaining contents at the grave location.

Once the grave has been recovered or no longer exists, its compass is removed automatically.

Revive Scroll

Sometimes your grave is simply too far away to make travelling back enjoyable, especially if you died in another dimension.

For that situation there is the Revive Scroll.

Using it teleports you to a safe position near your active grave. It also works across dimensions.

The scroll checks the destination before teleporting you and avoids obviously unsafe positions such as lava.

The item is consumed after use unless you are in Creative Mode.

The Revive Scroll does not revive a downed player. It is only meant for players who already respawned and want to return to their grave.

Crafting the Revive Scroll

You need eight Revive Potion III items and one piece of Paper.

Place the paper in the middle and surround it with Revive Potion III:

Revive Potion III	Revive Potion III	Revive Potion III
Revive Potion III	Paper	Revive Potion III
Revive Potion III	Revive Potion III	Revive Potion III

The finished scroll can be used once.

Public Collection Crates

Graves don't stay protected forever.

Once the configured protection time runs out, a grave turns into a Public Collection Crate.

At that point, other players are allowed to take the remaining items.

Items are only moved into free inventory space. Better Revive doesn't overwrite occupied slots just because someone opens the crate.

If the player can't carry everything, the remaining items stay inside.

Public Collection Crates also have their own configurable lifetime. Once that expires, the crate and its remaining contents are removed.

This is especially useful on multiplayer servers because abandoned graves don't have to stay around forever and the server doesn't have to spawn a huge pile of loose item entities when one expires.

Final Deaths

Not every death has to use the revive system.

Server owners can decide which deaths should immediately count as final deaths and completely skip the downed state.

Rules can be created for:

• Individual damage types
• Entire dimensions
• Deaths below the minimum world height

By default, lava and out-of-world deaths are treated as final deaths.

These defaults can be changed.

The administration menu uses searchable registry lists, so damage types and dimensions added by other mods can also be selected without manually looking up every registry ID.

Server Administration

Better Revive has an in-game administration menu so you don't have to edit configuration files for every small change.

Server operators can open it with:

/betterrevive menu

From there you can configure things such as:

• Revive lock duration
• Grave protection duration
• Public Collection Crate duration
• Retained experience percentage
• Revival offer duration
• Grave text update interval
• Grave chunk loading
• Below-world death behavior
• Final-death damage types
• Final-death dimensions
• Manual revival
• Manual revival during revive locks
• Life Pulse duration
• Required hits
• Allowed misses
• Life Pulse difficulty and speed
• Helper retry delay
• Manual revival health
• Manual revival revive lock
• Debuffs after a manual revival

Settings are stored per world and handled by the server.

There are also administration and diagnostic tools for checking registered graves, repairing stale entries, removing orphaned grave displays, checking runtime information and resetting a world's Better Revive configuration back to its defaults.

For server owners and modpack developers there is also an optional diagnostic test mode in the config file.

It can test important parts of the grave, inventory, networking, revival, configuration and add-on systems and creates a JSON report inside the world directory.

The diagnostic mode is disabled by default.

Add-On Support

Better Revive has its own add-on API so other mods and integrations can hook into parts of the revive and grave system.

This includes support for custom inventories, grave appearance providers, lifecycle listeners, revive extensions and custom revive items.

Official add-ons are available for:

• Better Revive X Curios
• Better Revive X Accessories
• Better Revive X Trinkets

These add-ons allow Better Revive to save equipped items from the respective slot system inside the grave and restore them to the correct slots after recovery or revival.

The add-ons use a safe capture and restoration system. If something cannot be restored correctly, the operation is stopped or rolled back instead of risking item loss or duplication.

Compatibility

Better Revive is available for:

• Fabric
• Forge
• NeoForge

It works in:

• Singleplayer
• LAN worlds
• Dedicated servers

There is also optional recipe display support for:

• JEI
• EMI
• REI

The mod supports inventories, effects, damage types and dimensions added by other mods where the respective system allows it.

Better Revive was made with both normal survival worlds and larger multiplayer servers in mind. Important actions such as revivals and the Life Pulse minigame are checked by the server instead of trusting the client.

Multiplayer requires Better Revive to be installed on both the server and the connecting clients.

Make sure you download the correct Better Revive version for your Minecraft version and mod loader.

Languages

Better Revive currently includes translations for:

• English
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Russian
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Simplified Chinese

Feedback and Support

Better Revive is a hobby project and I'm continuing to work on it.

If you find a bug, run into compatibility problems or have an idea for something that would fit the mod, feel free to leave a comment or open an issue. Reports from actual players are especially useful because there are always mod combinations and server setups I can't test myself.

If you enjoy the mod and want to support further development, updates and new integrations, you can also support the project through PayPal.

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Made by MrStilu2k6