Where the Sky Remembers: An immersive celestial death marker

Where the Sky Remembers

When you die, the sky remembers where it happened.

Your latest death becomes a bright star on the celestial dome. Stand at the place where you fell and look up: it is directly overhead. Walk away and the star settles into a fixed direction in the sky, giving you a quiet way to find your way back without a waypoint HUD or a beam in the world.

Older deaths remain as small stars. The newest memory is clear; the older ones fade, until only nine are kept.

What it does

• Creates one large, luminous star for your latest death.
• Keeps up to nine older death stars, fading from newest to oldest.
• Places every star by its real death position within the current dimension.
• Uses a celestial-sphere projection, so the star belongs to the sky instead of hovering as an entity you can fly past.
• Keeps a fixed celestial orientation rather than turning to face the player.
• Stores each player's history locally, separately for each singleplayer world or multiplayer server.

Client-side only

This mod is entirely client-side.

• Install it on your own client only.
• It works in singleplayer and on multiplayer servers without server installation.
• The server receives no data from the mod.
• Death-star history is saved in your local config/where_sky_remembers-history.json file.

Because the record is local, each player sees their own deaths only.

Commands

/wtsr teststar — Creates a test death star at your current position.

/wtsr clear — Clears your saved death-star history for the current world or server.

Configuration

The client configuration file is config/where_sky_remembers-client.toml.

You can adjust the star size, inner core, sky distance, fixed roll, halo size and opacity, and optional pulse. The default look is a crisp white inner star with a very faint outer halo.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47 or newer
• No required dependencies