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Death Inventory Keeper

by joyr · for ARK: Survival Evolved

Keep your items when you die: Automatically recover your items and folders when you respawn after death. Survivor default items are not kept, they are left in the death bag (to avoid cluttering your…

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About Death Inventory Keeper

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Keep your items when you die: Automatically recover your items and folders when you respawn after death. Survivor default items are not kept, they are left in the death bag (to avoid cluttering your…

Keep your items when you die: Automatically recover your items and folders when you respawn after death.

Survivor default items are not kept, they are left in the death bag (to avoid cluttering your inventory with duplicates of them).

Fully stackable, no load order requirements.

No setup necessary, add the mod and it works.

You can safely add/remove the mod at any time. However, there is a special case that can happen when removing, see Adding/removing the mod below for more information.

Admin accessible archive of deaths, restore items from any recent death. All items are saved to the archive (and restorable) regardless of item keeping settings.

Other features not enabled by default: PVP mode, XP loss upon death, XP loss recovery item, player reset (level/stat/engram) upon death, death injury, reduced health when respawning after death, hair loss upon death, thieves stealing items and setting up campsites, teleporting, grave recovery.

Known issues

In single player game, the items are not shown in the folders when you respawn. If you quit to main menu and go back to your single player game, the items are then shown in the folders.

Technical information:

Mod-ID = 1837445660 Type = Stackable Mod License = Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons License

Configuration

For details about the configuration options, see the Discord server below.

Current configuration is written to the server log upon server start.

Default GameUserSettings.ini settings are in short: Keep all items and item folders. No death penalties or any other fancy stuff.

Adding/removing the mod

It is always safe to add this mod.

When removing this mod, make sure nobody is dead with items they want to keep, ie. they have respawned if they have died. This is because the items that are kept for the currently-dead-and-not-respawned players are only accessible by this mod (they are saved in DeathInventoryKeeper.sav -file).

If the mod is removed while someone is dead with items they want to keep, then the items can be recovered with either re-adding this mod and then restoring from the archive, or the following old-skool procedure:

  • 1. Make sure the players whose items need recovering are dead.
  • 2. Re-add the mod.
  • 3. Now, when the players then respawn with the mod active, they get their kept items.

Documentation and help

!!! This mod does NOT EXIST in ASA !!!!

Some shady f stole the name of my mod to gain attraction in the ASA modding.

I do not know the person, nor do I have anything to do with that mod, the ASA mod has nothing to do with this mod.

If you're truly about this mod on ASE, then remove the incorrect three letter acronym from the discord link below.

Discord: https://discord.gg/aASAQ6eAAKQbh

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 5 yr ago.

Death Inventory Keeper on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon ARK: Survival Evolved servers. We download it from Steam Workshop, place it, and restart the server.
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
ARK — 8 GB (8 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
2021-12-02, released 2021-12-02

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Workshop

From 1 recorded build of Death Inventory Keeper.

Run Death Inventory Keeper on a ARK: Survival Evolved server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Steam Workshop as “Workshop”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Compatibility

Game
ARK: Survival Evolved

Verified at the source

  • ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-01Open ↗
  • ✓Authorjoyr, as published on Steam Workshop
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

Death Inventory Keeper, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Is it free?

Yes. Death Inventory Keeper is free to download from Steam Workshop.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

Run Death Inventory Keeper on a ARK: Survival Evolved server.

Deploy in about a minute from $14.99 a month, then add Death Inventory Keeper in one click.