Selective Keep Inventory

Selective Keep Inventory is a lightweight vanilla datapack for Minecraft Java Edition that enables keep inventory for specific players only.

Instead of enabling keepInventory for the entire world, this pack lets you choose exactly which players keep their items and XP after death.

Features

• Per-player keep inventory
• Per-player XP retention
• Fully server-side
• Vanilla datapack, no plugin or mod required
• Supports Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.2 to 1.21.11

How it works

Players with the keepinv tag keep their inventory and XP on death.

Players without the tag die normally and lose their inventory/XP as expected.

Commands

Enable for a player:
/tag <player> add keepinv

Disable for a player:
/tag <player> remove keepinv

Example:
/tag Steve add keepinv

Fabric:

Player Keep Inventory

Server-side Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 that enables keep-inventory only for selected players.

Command

/keepinventory <player|selector> <on|off|toggle|status>

Examples:

• /keepinventory Steve on
• /keepinventory @a[team=vip] on
• /keepinventory Steve status

Installation

1. Put the ZIP file into your world's datapacks folder
2. Run /reload
3. Check with /datapack list

Notes

This is a vanilla datapack, so it does not add a custom root command like /keepinv on Steve.
Use the player tag system shown above.