Mods / Soul Gears

Tags:
Utility QoL
Author:
Soareverix
Side:
Both
Created:
Dec 16th 2025 at 8:00 PM
Last modified:
Dec 27th 2025 at 5:26 AM
Downloads:
310
Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.21.0-pre.1 - 1.21.6, outdated):
SoulGear.zip  1-click install

Many of my friends have rage-quit Vintage Story after dying 10k blocks from spawn while exploring. Keep Inventory is obviously very powerful, but I think to balance the extreme distances + danger required for exploring, a one-time keep inventory mechanic is needed.

This mod adds a craftable 'Soul Gear'. When used, it gives the player who used it one charge of 'Keep Inventory' so that when they die, they respawn with all of their gear.

If they die again, the 'keep inventory' charge is spent, so their stuff will drop (unless they've used another Soul Gear).

The Soul Gear does not set your spawn location.

It is crafted with 4 rusty gears.

 

(This mod is now fully stable and extensively tested)

Mod Version Mod IdentifierFor Game version Downloads Released Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
1.2.0 soulgear
1.21.0-pre.1 - 1.21.6
215 Dec 27th 2025 at 5:26 AM Empty SoulGear.zip 1-click install
1.1.0 soulgear
1.21.0-pre.1 - 1.21.6
64 Dec 18th 2025 at 10:03 PM SoulGear.zip 1-click install

Texturing, icon is now good, keep inventory mechanics look great to me. Possible issues with disconnecting/server restart while dead, or getting revived, so I still need to do a bit of testing

1.0.0 soulgear
1.19.0 - 1.21.6
31 Dec 16th 2025 at 8:01 PM SoulGear.zip 1-click install

The Soul Gear is now working, though I haven't tested it in multiplayer yet.

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6 Comments (oldest first | newest first) (threaded | flat)

dangerousb, Feb 3rd at 4:14 AM

Love the mod! Just a heads up, if using Carry On and you have a container on your back (in my case a clay vessel) it doesn't stay on your person when you die. Using the vanilla keep inventory on death option, you do keep the container.

Saber, Jan 11th at 1:12 PM

Ive been looking for something like this for a while Ty for making it.
Iam going to look into tweaking it so the recipe is a bit harder to do with a temporal gear in the middle for myself.

Soareverix , Jan 9th at 2:57 PM

This mod is now fully stable on all versions. There should be no chance of losing your inventory even in weird situations like the game crashing right as you die

Myrak, Dec 29th 2025 at 6:38 PM

Soareverix well then that is much more incentive to not rage quite XD
id say leave it as a feature to get people to either try again or atleast respawn and then log out :)

Soareverix , Dec 27th 2025 at 5:57 AM

Myrak Thanks! I've tested this in multiplayer with my brothers and it seems to work quite consistently. The only issue is if you disconnect in a server after dying ('rage quit' option), then your inventory will be wiped since the server will forget what the Soul Gear is holding.

Otherwise, this works perfectly! Revives, respawns, etc. all work perfectly on servers and singleplayer.

Myrak, Dec 23rd 2025 at 2:17 AM

so perfect idea!!!!!!! 
im going to test this and with player corpse mod installed as well. this will be a really nice addition as players can save the soul gear for big events like dungeons and such then use player corpse and spawn radius mods for others. 

I have your other two mods installed on my other hardcore server and man, they make it soooo much better!!!!!