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๐ป 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.
โก 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.
โจ Core Features
๐ฌ 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
๐ 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
๐ฎ Ghost Essence - Multi-Use Resource
Drop from banished ghosts. Four distinct uses:
- Right-click to consume โ +4 hearts instant heal, Resistance II for 10s, Regeneration II for 5s. A pocket totem with a 30-second cooldown.
- Brewing ingredient โ Combine with Awkward Potion to brew the Potion of Ethereal Form:
- ๐ชถ Slow Falling
- โก Speed II
- ๐ก๏ธ โ30% damage taken
- Perfect for End City raids, parkour, boss fights, Nether exploration
- Crafting component โ Required for the Ghost Banisher
- Memorial binding โ Permanently bind essence to a Memorial Block for area buffs
โ๏ธ 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).
๐ชฆ 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.
๐ 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% (1โ3) |
| Bastion Treasure Rooms | 35% |
| End City Treasure | 45% (1โ3) |
| Buried Treasure | 20% |
Hardcore players, take note: even on your first life, you can find essence and brew Ethereal Form before facing the Wither.
๐ ๏ธ Crafting Recipes
Ghost Banisher
Memorial Block
โ๏ธ Highly Configurable
- Recording duration (5s โ 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.
๐ Perfect For
- ๐ญ Roleplay servers - every death becomes part of the lore
- ๐ฐ Hardcore SMPs - memorialize fallen members forever
- โ๏ธ PvP servers - taunt your kills, watch their final moments on loop
- ๐๏ธ Build servers - design haunted cathedrals filled with the ghosts of past visitors
- ๐ฌ Cinematic recordings - finally a ghost mod that looks like a real game feature, not a debug overlay
- ๐ง Solo adventurers - the world feels alive and lived-in when your old selves wander through it
๐ง 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.
๐ฌ Community
For bug reports, new ideas, or requests for new versions: ๐ 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.
๐ Roadmap
- ๐ต Ambient ghost whispers near memorials
- ๐ก๏ธ Banisher upgrades (radius banishment, essence multiplier)
- ๐ฆ Soul Cages - capture a ghost and move it to another location
- ๐ Cross-dimension ghost tracking (death in Nether visible in Overworld)
- ๐จ Custom ghost skins (your actual player skin, not a generic texture)
- ๐ 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.