Sanctum

A bundle of quality-of-life features, fixes and server utilities for Fabric and NeoForge.

Sanctum collects, improves and implements a number of small and large tweaks most modpacks or even single player worlds end up pulling in from a dozen separate mods into one mod.

You can turn every feature on or off in game, and the change applies right away with no restart.

Settings are powered by Dungeon Config, which ships inside Sanctum, so there's nothing extra to install.

Opening the settings

You can open the menu in any of these ways:

• The gear button next to Singleplayer on the title screen
• Ctrl + K, from anywhere
• The Config button in Mod Menu (Fabric) or the Mods list (NeoForge)

The settings file is config/sanctum/sanctum.json5 if you'd rather edit it by hand. It's commented and readable.

Playing on a server? A few gameplay rules need both sides to agree, such as stack sizes and door collision. While you're on a server running Sanctum, the server's choice wins and the menu shows a little badge telling you so. On servers without Sanctum, those features switch themselves off so you don't desync.

Graves

When you die, your items don't explode across the floor. They go into a grave: your own player head, placed where you fell.

• Everything is kept: your inventory, armour, offhand and your XP.
• Modded slots are captured too, such as Accessories, Curios, Trinkets and backpacks. You can turn this off.
• Graves are blast-proof, and only you can break or open yours unless you unlock it.
• A chat message tells you where it is: the grave number, the coordinates and how long until it expires.
• Your graves glow through walls when you're within 10 blocks, so you can find them in a cave.
• Shift + right-click a grave to put everything straight back into the slots it came from, with armour going back on.
• Nowhere to put a grave? If there's no free spot near your death point, your items drop the normal way and you're told why.
• Items from a mod you've since removed are kept safe. The grave holds onto them until that mod is back instead of deleting them.

The grave screen

Right-click a grave to open it. You get the full chest view plus an info panel showing:

• whose grave it is and its number
• where it is, including the dimension
• an expiry countdown with a progress bar
• stored XP and item count
• who's allowed to open it

The buttons on the panel:

Big inventories spill onto multiple pages, and you flip between them with the arrows in the title bar.

Commands

Settings

Teleport Utilities

A full set of teleport commands for servers (and singleplayer, if you like). Each command can be turned off or restricted to operators separately.

Defaults

• 3 homes per player.
• /back remembers your last 5 locations.
• Teleport requests expire after 60 seconds.

Random teleport options

• How far it reaches (1,000 blocks from the world centre by default)
• Whether it searches around the player instead of the world centre
• Uses before a cooldown kicks in, and the cooldown length
• An optional warmup: stand still for a few seconds, don't take damage, and you can't use it mid-fight

Admin commands

These are for operators and change the limits for individual players without touching the global config.

If you lower the homes limit, players keep the homes they already have by default. Turn off Keep extra homes to trim the newest extras instead.

The sanctum:rtp_blacklist dimension tag stops /rtp from working in particular dimensions.

Gameplay

Stack Maxxer is careful about what it touches: items with durability, contents or other stored data stay as they are. Shulker boxes, for example, only stack when they're empty.

Values you can adjust:

• Mending repair ratio: durability repaired per XP point (default 2).
• Piglin trade duration: ticks a piglin admires gold before bartering (default 34).

HUD

Sanctum also raises vanilla's caps on max health, armour and toughness, so heavily modded gear doesn't hit an invisible ceiling. If you already have the AttributeFix mod, Sanctum stays out of its way.

Tooltips

Zoom

Hold V (rebindable) to zoom, and scroll while zoomed to adjust it.

Reacher

Quark-style "reach-around" placement: place blocks against the side or underside of the block you're standing on, without crouching over the edge.

While you're aiming, a see-through ghost block shows exactly what will be placed and where. You can switch it back to a simple bracket indicator if you prefer.

Interface

Window title and icon

Both live in config/sanctum/window/.

Title:

• Plain text, the name of a .txt file in window/title, or empty to pick a random .txt from that folder each launch.
• {version}, {mode} and {original} are filled in for you.

Icon:

• An image or a .txt list in window/icon, or a URL.
• An item id such as minecraft:diamond, rendered for you.
• A glob such as minecraft:*_log, or a /regex/.
• Separate several options with commas and one is picked at random each startup.

The menu's background, music and colours can also be changed in Interface. See the Dungeon Config page for how those work.

For modpack makers

These two features run from folders rather than from the settings menu.

Pack Loader

Drop datapacks into config/sanctum/datapacks and resource packs into config/sanctum/resourcepacks. They load automatically for every world, with no per-world copying and no asking players to enable them.

The order is controlled by datapack_load_order.json and resourcepack_load_order.json in the same folder. Packs you don't list load after the ones you do.

Default Overrides

Put files in a sanctum_defaults folder in the game directory, using the same layout as the game folder (e.g. sanctum_defaults/options.txt or sanctum_defaults/config/somemod.toml). Sanctum copies them into place at startup whenever they differ.

• Anything it replaces is backed up to sanctum_defaults_bak, and the 5 most recent backups are kept.
• sanctum_defaults/default_saves works the same way for files inside world folders.

Tags

Every list below is a normal tag, so a datapack can change any of them:

Notes

• Server side vs client side:
  • Server-side features (graves, teleports, gameplay rules) need Sanctum on the server.
  • Client-only features (HUD, tooltips, zoom, interface tweaks) work on any server, vanilla included.

Found something that clashes with another mod or have a feature in mind? Let us know, because compatibility is an ongoing effort with a mod this broad.