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š» Ghost of You
"Every player who falls leaves more than just their items behind. They leave a memory."
Ghost of You transforms death in Minecraft from a forgettable footnote into a haunting, personal experience. When you die, the world remembers - your final moments replay forever as a translucent ghost retracing every step, every jump, every desperate swing of your sword, frozen in time at the place where it all ended.
This isn't just another tombstone mod. It's a living memorial system that turns your world into an archive of every life lost within it.
ā” What makes this mod different?
Most death mods give you a grave. Ghost of You gives you a story.
The mod continuously records your last 30 seconds of movement - your position, rotation, sprint state, jumps, attacks, even whether you were sneaking or on fire. When you die, that recording becomes a ghost that performs an infinite loop of your final moments at the exact spot of your death. Combined with a Soul Crystal altar that marks the death location with a floating, spinning Nether Star, every fallen player leaves behind a permanent, animated monument.
Then comes the gameplay loop. Ghosts are translucent, invulnerable, and beautiful - but they're also a resource. Banish them with the Ghost Banisher to claim their Ghost Essence, a powerful crafting ingredient with multiple uses. Build memorials to honor the fallen and earn passive buffs for everyone nearby.
āØ Core Features
š¬ Cinematic Death Playback
- 30-second movement recordings of every player, captured server-side
- Ghosts replay walking, sprinting, jumping, swimming, sneaking, attacking - every single action you did before dying
- Infinite loop with smooth interpolation - the ghost replays its final moments forever
- Translucent player-shaped model wearing your armor at the moment of death
- LOD-aware playback that scales with distance - zero TPS impact even with hundreds of ghosts
š Soul Crystal Death Markers
- A floating, spinning Nether Star orb marks the exact death location
- Surrounded by soul-fire particles, visible from far away
- Persistent across world reloads - your old graveyards survive forever
- Linked to the corresponding ghost - clicking either reveals the owner
š® Ghost Essence - Multi-Use Resource
Drop from banished ghosts. Four distinct uses:
- Right-click to consume ā +4 hearts instant heal, Resistance II for 10s, Regeneration II for 5s. A pocket totem with a 30-second cooldown.
- Brewing ingredient ā Combine with Awkward Potion to brew the Potion of Ethereal Form:
- šŖ¶ Slow Falling
- ā” Speed II
- š”ļø ā30% damage taken
- Perfect for End City raids, parkour, boss fights, Nether exploration
- Crafting component ā Required for the Ghost Banisher
- Memorial binding ā Permanently bind essence to a Memorial Block for area buffs
āļø Ghost Banisher
A ritualistic weapon that releases ghosts from their endless loop. Holding right-click while aiming at a ghost initiates a 2-second banishment ritual featuring:
- Spiral of upward soul flames
- Collapsing soul-particle sphere
- Vertical end-rod beam to the sky
- Visual lightning strike (no damage)
- Layered Wither/Beacon/Lightning sound effect
The ghost performs a death animation - tilting forward, fading out, sinking into the ground - then drops its Ghost Essence containing the owner's full death story (name, lifetime, killer, cause of death).
šŖ¦ Memorial Block
Craftable tombstone you bind to any Ghost Essence. Once bound:
- Displays the fallen player's name floating above
- Emits a continuous soul-particle aura
- Grants Resistance + Speed to all players within 5 blocks
- Buffs stack up to 5 times when multiple memorials are placed nearby
- Right-click empty-handed to read the full epitaph: lifetime, cause of death, time since banishment
Turn your base into a fortress of fallen heroes. Build a server graveyard that grants strength to all who walk among the dead.
š Dungeon Loot - Hardcore Friendly
Ghost Essence spawns in vanilla generated chests for players who can't farm it:
| Location | Drop Chance |
|---|---|
| Dungeons | 25% |
| Strongholds | 30% |
| Abandoned Mineshafts | 15% |
| Woodland Mansions | 40% |
| Ancient Cities | 50% (1ā3) |
| Bastion Treasure Rooms | 35% |
| End City Treasure | 45% (1ā3) |
| Buried Treasure | 20% |
Hardcore players, take note: even on your first life, you can find essence and brew Ethereal Form before facing the Wither.
š ļø Crafting Recipes
Ghost Banisher
Memorial Block
āļø Highly Configurable
- Recording duration (5s ā 5min)
- Sample interval (precision vs. memory tradeoff)
- Max ghosts per player and per chunk
- LOD distances (near / mid / freeze tiers)
- Ghost transparency, render distance, glow
- Toggle ghost spawning / playback / banishment ritual
- Permission to disable per dimension
Server admins, this mod is built for production - off-heap circular ring buffers, GZIP-compressed NBT persistence, distance-based playback throttling, automatic ghost caps. Tested with 200+ simultaneous ghosts at 60+ TPS on modest hardware.
š Perfect For
- š Roleplay servers - every death becomes part of the lore
- š° Hardcore SMPs - memorialize fallen members forever
- āļø PvP servers - taunt your kills, watch their final moments on loop
- šļø Build servers - design haunted cathedrals filled with the ghosts of past visitors
- š¬ Cinematic recordings - finally a ghost mod that looks like a real game feature, not a debug overlay
- š§ Solo adventurers - the world feels alive and lived-in when your old selves wander through it
š§ Compatibility
- Loader: Forge
- Minecraft: 1.20.1+
- Java: 17
- Server-side optional? No - required on both client and server
- Performance: Optimized for large modpacks, tested with Embeddium, Oculus, JEI, BetterTwink, Iron's Spellbooks, Xaero's Minimap
Works alongside all major performance mods. No mixin conflicts known.
š¬ Community
For bug reports, new ideas, or requests for new versions: š https://discord.gg/VfbgFqZ5dp
Got an idea for a new ghost interaction? A new use for essence? A different death-marker entity? Drop into the Discord - every feature in this mod started as a player suggestion.
š Roadmap
- šµ Ambient ghost whispers near memorials
- š”ļø Banisher upgrades (radius banishment, essence multiplier)
- š¦ Soul Cages - capture a ghost and move it to another location
- š Cross-dimension ghost tracking (death in Nether visible in Overworld)
- šØ Custom ghost skins (your actual player skin, not a generic texture)
- š Server statistics - leaderboard of most-died players, longest lives, deadliest mobs
Death is not the end. It's the beginning of the loop.
Install Ghost of You today. Make every death matter.