Compassionate Hardcore

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Compassionate Hardcore

By LiferiOwner

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Compassionate Hardcore Mod lets you respawn far away after death instead of losing your world. Keep the challenge, but turn death into a new adventure!

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Minecraft
26.2
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!!!Do not use this mod in a hardcore world. This mod requires a survival-hard game. İt changes it to a different type of hardcore!!!

Compassionate Hardcore Mod

A Second Chance Without Letting Go of Hardcore!

Hardcore mode provides the most adrenaline-filled experience in Minecraft. However, its most unforgiving truth is that once you die, you lose everything – days, months, or even years of effort can vanish in an instant, leaving many players frustrated. This is where the Compassionate Hardcore Mod steps in! This mod preserves the intense excitement and tension of Hardcore mode while offering a restart mechanic that doesn’t equate dying with losing your entire world. Now, instead of being completely disconnected from the game upon death, you’ll have the chance to embark on a new adventure!

The Purpose of the Mod

This mod is designed for players who carefully strategize and progress cautiously during Hardcore play. However, when bad luck or a momentary mistake leads to death, there’s no need for regret or discouragement! Compassionate Hardcore encourages you to see death not as an end but as the beginning of a new and exciting journey. Players are penalized, but instead of completely giving up, they’re given an opportunity to recover and start fresh. Do you wish to find your way back to your home and old world? That depends entirely on your courage, patience, and focus!

How It Works

When a player dies, the following system is triggered:

  1. Experience the Punishment System:

    • After death, the player faces a 30-minutes "penalty period."
    • If you respawn before this period ends, you will be teleported to a location far away from your original one. You won’t be able to return to your old world until you reach that location – but with patience and determination, you can find your way.

  2. Random Respawn Locations:

    • After the penalty period concludes, you’ll respawn in an entirely random location. This means you will encounter new biomes, environments, and challenges regularly.
    • This system both feeds the exploration aspect of the game and forces players to develop new strategies.

  3. Fair Respawn System:

    • The randomly selected respawn locations are chosen from safe areas to ensure the player has a chance to survive. You won’t respawn in hazards like lava, water, or at high cliffs where you might immediately die again.

  4. Chance to Return to Your Old Home:

    • Any player who wishes to return to their original home must find a way to survive, gather resources, and embark on a journey to retrace their steps. Honestly, you’ll probably need those shulkers full of rockets and many Elytra. ;)

A Balance for Players

For Hardcore enthusiasts, the aftermath of death often results in disappointment and regret. Losing an entire world because of a moment of carelessness can make players quit the game altogether. Compassionate Hardcore Mod strikes a balance that both encourages players and challenges them to keep going.

  • Death is still a serious consequence, stripping you of all your resources.
  • But this time, the apocalypse can be seen as the start of something new.

This mod keeps you from giving up entirely. Instead, it transforms death into an opportunity for new adventure, exploration, and overcoming the challenges of starting over.

Why Use This Mod?

This mod is especially designed for players who:

  • Love Hardcore mode but don’t want their efforts to completely go to waste after dying,
  • Enjoy traditional punishment mechanics in the game but can’t bear losing everything,
  • Believe that death is not an end but a beginning,
  • Want to discover new biomes and add a fresh thrill and challenge to the game.

Compassionate Hardcore Mod offers a gameplay style that rewards not only difficulty but also transformation and exploration.

Features

  1. Keeps the Thrill and Action of Hardcore Mode:

    • Death has serious consequences, but it gives players a chance to fight back and recover.

  2. Random Respawn Mechanics:

    • Respawn hundreds of blocks away from your location and start a new life on the map.

  3. Fair and Safe Respawn Locations:

    • Respawn points are free from hazards like lava, water, or falling dangers, ensuring a safer start.

  4. Encourages Strategy and Exploration:

    • Players must discover new ways to find their home, plan for survival, and gather fresh resources for a new beginning.

Can you find your way back at home?

Known issues:

Sometimes it gets stuck on the save screen when exiting your world. Your game is still being saved. In this case, force stop the game from the task manager.(I'm still working on this)

Compassionate Hardcore

Important

Do not use this mod in a Hardcore world.

Compassionate Hardcore is designed for a regular Survival world set to Hard difficulty. It replaces permanent world loss with a demanding exile-and-recovery system while allowing you to continue playing in the same world.

A Second Chance Without Removing the Consequences

Minecraft Hardcore creates tension because every mistake can be final. However, losing a world containing months or years of progress can discourage players from continuing.

Compassionate Hardcore offers a middle ground. Death remains a serious setback, but it does not permanently lock you out of your world. Instead, you are exiled far from where you died and forced to begin again with whatever you can rebuild.

Your old base and everything you created still exist—but finding your way back is entirely up to your preparation, patience, and survival skills.

How It Works

When a player dies, the mod records the actual death location and searches for a survivable destination far away in the Overworld. After a protected one-second preparation period, the player is teleported to the selected exile location and a 30-minute penalty period begins.

Dying again while the penalty is active returns the player to the same exile location. Once the 30-minute period expires, the next death selects a completely new destination based on that new death location.

Penalty locations, remaining penalty time, world settings, and the selected difficulty profile are preserved after restarting the world or server.

Exile Difficulty Profiles

The exile distance is measured from the player’s actual death location, not from the world origin. Destinations are selected in a random direction using true radial distance.

Three profiles are available:

  • Merciful: 50,000–100,000 blocks from the death location
  • Standard: 100,000–500,000 blocks from the death location
  • Brutal: 500,000–1,000,000 blocks from the death location

After Compassionate Hardcore is enabled, the authorized player receives clickable profile choices in chat. The selected profile is saved separately for that world and can be changed later by an authorized operator.

Destination Safety

Before teleporting the player, Compassionate Hardcore checks the destination for solid, dry footing and enough empty space to stand. It avoids spawning the player inside blocks or directly in water or lava. Generated destinations are also checked against the world border.

During the one-second preparation period, the player is placed in a protected state and cannot move or interact with the world.

Per-World Activation

Compassionate Hardcore does not activate automatically. When an unconfigured world is opened, the singleplayer world owner or an authorized operator receives clickable options to enable the mod or keep it disabled. Normal players do not see this setup prompt and cannot change the world setting.

The following commands are available:

  • /chm enable — Enables Compassionate Hardcore in the current world.
  • /chm disable — Disables Compassionate Hardcore in the current world.
  • /chm status — Shows whether the mod is enabled and displays the selected difficulty profile.
  • /chm profile <merciful|standard|brutal> — Changes the exile difficulty profile.

The enable, disable, and profile commands can only be used by the singleplayer world owner, authorized operators, or the server console. The status command is available to all players because it does not modify any settings.

When the mod is disabled, no death penalties or activation warnings are applied.

Death and Item Loss

Compassionate Hardcore uses Minecraft’s normal death rules. Item loss follows the world’s keepInventory gamerule.

For the intended experience, use a Survival world set to Hard difficulty with keepInventory disabled. This makes preparation, emergency supplies, recovery routes, Elytra, rockets, and backup equipment meaningful parts of the experience.

Server-Side Support

Compassionate Hardcore is fully server-side. Players joining a CHM-enabled server do not need to install the mod.

Death handling, teleportation, protection, saved locations, difficulty profiles, and warning messages are all managed by the server. Installing the mod on the client is only useful if you want to view its information and release notes through Mod Menu.

Why Use Compassionate Hardcore?

This mod is intended for players who enjoy Hardcore-style tension but do not want to permanently lose their world. It turns death into a meaningful and lasting setback built around exploration, survival, preparation, and the challenge of returning home.

Death still matters. Your equipment may be gone, your home may be hundreds of thousands of blocks away, and your journey may need to begin from nothing.

Can you find your way back home?

Compatibility

Compassionate Hardcore should work alongside most Fabric mods. It does not add custom blocks, items, dimensions, or mandatory client resources, giving it a relatively small compatibility footprint.

Mods that heavily replace player death, respawning, teleportation, world borders, or chunk generation may affect its behavior.