I like the idea! It's very well implemented and the model and GUI look great! By the way, I looked into your mod and it's quite cool. Hope it gets better.
Very interesting mod, its neat that now i dont need to look around in he dark to find torches which dropped somewhere.
I always hated the way Minecraft works on death. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind (cough) losing my inventory, but only if it gets actually destroyed by lava or fire. What I couldn't stand is having it disappear due to that 4 minutes items lifespan. This mod remedies to that, overriding the vanilla drops mechanic. At death, a player will spawn a bag like this one:
In short...
The bag stores all your items at death
Anyone can access the bag (configurable)
You can see who dropped the bag in the GUI
A right click retrieves an item, while sneak right click opens an inventory
The inventory has a button to move everything in your inventory. Previously equipped armor will be re-equipped if the slots are still empty. (T)
A bag is destroyed completely by lava, (configurable) so be careful. Its otherwise invulnerable.
The bag will never expire
You can't put new items in the bag no matter what, and emptying makes it disappear
The model and texture are pretty awful, but I'm not a good modeller/texturer
There is also a compass that points to the last point where you died after installing the 1.6.2 version of this mod (can be deactivated)
Can be crafted like a compass, with rotten flesh instead of redstone, or by combining a compass and rotten flesh
Shift-right click removes the last death point, and points to any other death point before that. If all death points have been cleared, it will spin at random
Downloads
Download info
Two files are available:
The normal version is the normal mod, with no special properties or whatever.
The SRG version is obfuscated to allow a chance that the mod may work as it is, even if Minecraft updates beyond 1.6.2. I'm not aware of anything against using this version, but I prefer to keep up the normal version just in case.
InventorySaver v3.0 for MC 1.4.7
Download
Forge 6.6.0.4
InventorySaver v3.0 for MC 1.5.2
Normal - SRG
Forge 7.8.0.684
InventorySaver v3.1 for MC 1.6.2
Normal - SRG
Forge 9.10.0.789
InventorySaver v3.2 for MC 1.6.2
Normal - SRG
Forge 9.10.0.789
Change log
v3.2 - MC1.6.2 - Forge 9.10.0.789
-The bag is now a block
-The bag will fall if not supported (configurable)
-A falling bag will act like falling sand, but will not be destroyed if it falls on a torch or similar not colliding blocks.
-A falling bag that falls on a non solid block will stay there in entity form and will not be accessible, until the non solid block is removed.
-A falling bag is an entity, and can be propelled by explosives. There is a bit of potential for supply drops, using massive cannons. : P
-A non falling bag is invulnerable instead. However, an explosion may destroy the block it's standing on, making it fall and allowing further explosions to throw it around.
-The bag will be destroyed if it ends near lava (configurable)
-The bag can be protected from being opened by anyone that's not the original owner. This will also protect it from lava and falling (configurable)
-The bag can be right clicked to pop a single stack
-The bag can be opened by shift-right clicking
-The GUI will display the original owner name.
-The GUI also has a button to reequip the armor and move all bag contents to the inventory, trying to move every stack to its original position.
-The mod comes with a special death compass (can be deactivated)
-The compass points to the last location where the player died, starting from when the mod was installed (including previous versions)
-Shift right clicking removes the last location and points to the previous one.
-The compass points only to the location where the player holding it (specifically YOU, looking at the compass, even in the hands of someone else) died, and if no location is available it will spin randomly. It won't work cross dimension, and will only point to where you died in the same dimension.
Installation
Follow the new installation instructions for Forge
Start Minecraft once, close it and head back to the %AppData%/.minecraft folder.
You'll notice a mods folder. Download and move the InventorySaver archive file into that folder.
Follow point 5
Follow point 4
Download InventorySaver 3.2 (SRG names) for 1.6.2
Download InventorySaver v3.0 for 1.5.2 (SRG names)
Download InventorySaver v3.0 for 1.4.7
