Troubleshooting Missing Quotes and Restoring Default Messages

If no funny quotes appear above your death message when you die, or if your custom quote file stops working as expected, check a few in-game and folder settings.

Why Quotes Are Not Showing in Chat

1. Check the vanilla gamerule: Open chat and run /gamerule showDeathMessages. The mod relies on this gamerule to enable or disable its main functionality. If it is set to false, run /gamerule showDeathMessages true.

2. Verify where the mod is running: In singleplayer, the mod must be active on your client. On a multiplayer server, the mod must be installed on the server side—having it only on your own client will not broadcast quotes on someone else's server.

3. Reload your text file: If you recently edited deathquotes.txt while the game was already running, your new lines will not appear until you execute /deathquotes reloadQuotes in chat.

Restoring the Default 619+ Quotes

If you deleted too many lines, broke your formatting patterns, or accidentally saved an empty deathquotes.txt file, restoring the original package is straightforward:

1. Navigate to the config folder in your singleplayer instance or server directory.

2. Delete deathquotes.txt (or rename it if you want to keep a backup of your custom lines).

3. Restart the game or server so the mod detects that no quotes file exists and generates a clean default deathquotes.txt automatically.