Silkbound

Your loot, wrapped in silk instead of scattered in the dirt.

A small mod that turns a spider's cocoon into your safety net. Carry one, and the moment you die your whole inventory is wrapped into a single silk cocoon right where you fell - instead of spraying across the floor to burn, sink, or despawn. And to keep you stocked, Silkbound threads the caves with a brand-new structure: spider nests.

Based on the concept art by Frencore.

How the cocoon saves your stuff

• Carry it anywhere in your inventory. Hotbar, backpack - doesn't matter. If a cocoon is on you when you die, it triggers.
• Everything is sealed - items, armor, offhand - inside one cocoon block placed at the spot you died.
• One cocoon per death. It's consumed to do the wrapping, so bring spares on long trips.
• The filled cocoon glows, so you can spot your "grave" from across a dark cave.
• Break it to get it all back - the cocoon spills its contents when destroyed.

Think of it as a tombstone made of silk: your loot waits in one tidy, glowing block instead of a scattered pile on the ground.

Spider nests - a new underground structure

Cocoons come from spider nests, carved into the caves of every Overworld biome:

• Irregular silk-and-cobble chambers deep underground, strung with cobwebs and hanging strands, littered with bones and old prey.
• Four flavours, from cramped little dens to sprawling nests - including a rare silverfish-infested variant for the brave.
• Inhabited by cave spiders (spawners inside), so clearing one is a real fight.
• Natural cocoons line the walls, some in tight egg-sac clusters.
• Each nest tunnels itself to the nearest cave, so they're part of the world, not sealed bubbles.

Getting cocoons

• Mine a nest cocoon with Silk Touch to collect the cocoon block itself - that's the one you carry as your safety net.
• Without Silk Touch, an empty cocoon just gives a little string or the odd spider eye.

What it won't save

• Some deaths leave no grave: the void, drowning, suffocating in a wall, and explosions all drop your items the vanilla way.
• The cocoon needs a solid surface to anchor to within a couple of blocks of where you died - fall to your death over a big open drop and there may be nowhere to hang it.
• The cocoon can still be destroyed (and will spill your loot) - it protects against scatter and despawn, not against a creeper dancing on your grave.

Requirements

• Fabric Loader
• Fabric API
• Fabric Language Kotlin
• Required on both client and server

Supported versions: 1.20.6, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, 26.2

FAQ

I died and my stuff scattered - no cocoon? Either you weren't carrying a cocoon, there was no solid surface nearby to anchor it to, or it was one of the excluded deaths (void / drowning / wall / explosion).

How do I open the cocoon? Just break it - your items pop straight back out.

Can I build with them? Yes - empty cocoons place like any block (and glow once filled), so your nests and bases can get properly creepy.

Where's the cocoon in creative? It's in the Functional tab.

Credits

• Concept & original art: Frencore (Instagram / Tumblr)
• Code: kezuwoo

Found a bug? Open an issue - include your Minecraft version and the latest.log.