Your deaths haunt the world. Every death leaves a ghostly echo — a translucent replay of your final moments, looping forever at the place you fell.
- 10-second replay loop — every echo replays the last 10 seconds before your death, forever.
- Reclaim your XP — right-click your own echo to get back 50% of the experience you lost.
- Max 3 echoes per player — die again and the oldest echo fades away.
- Glows in the dark — echoes are visible even at night, so your mistakes are never truly hidden.
- Works everywhere — Overworld, Nether, the End, any dimension you (used to) call home.
- Safe spawn — echoes never spawn in lava, void, or other instant-death spots.
The server continuously records the last 200 ticks (10 seconds) of your movement and pose. The moment you die, that recording is baked into a persistent echo entity that loops the replay at the place you fell — a translucent, glowing ghost repeating your final steps for anyone to see.
Requires Minecraft 26.1.x (26.1.2+).
| Loader | Requirements |
|---|---|
| Fabric | Fabric Loader + Fabric API |
| NeoForge | NeoForge |
Drop the matching jar into your mods folder and launch the game.
Does everyone see my echoes, or just me? Everyone on the server sees your echoes. Only you (the owner) can right-click one to reclaim its XP.
Do echoes despawn on their own? No. An echo sticks around until its owner reclaims it — or until it's pushed out by a 4th death.
Will this tank my server's performance? No — at most 3 lightweight, physics-free entities per player are ever active at once.
Death Echoes was built for Minecraft ModJam 2026, themed "Echoes of the Past". The theme is taken literally: every death becomes a literal echo of the past, a looping ghost of who you were and what you were doing in your last 10 seconds alive, haunting the exact spot where your story paused.
- CurseForge — (links coming soon)
- Modrinth — (links coming soon)
Released under the MIT License.
Logo and icon composed from official Minecraft textures via ImageMagick (no AI-generated imagery). Screenshots and GIF are unedited gameplay captures.