Graves

Graves

Never lose your items to a careless death again. When you die, a grave rises where you fell — holding everything you carried.

Graves is a vanilla datapack for Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3. No mods, no plugins, no resource pack. The moment you die, a small memorial appears at your death spot: a chest with your inventory, a barrel with your armor, hotbar overflow and offhand item, topped with a skeleton skull and a sign reading "R.I.P." plus the day you died.

How it works

1. Die (in survival or adventure mode).
2. A grave is raised where you fell — your scattered drops are gathered into it automatically.
3. Walk back and loot your chest and barrel like normal containers.
4. Once both are empty, the grave disappears without a trace. Skull, sign, everything — cleaned up by itself.

Features

• Full inventory rescue — inventory, armor, and offhand item, all saved; nothing left scattered (XP orbs still drop naturally)
• Real memorial — skeleton skull + "R.I.P." sign dated with the day you died
• Self-cleaning — empty it (or break it) and the whole grave vanishes; no leftover blocks or entities
• Honest fallbacks — died in lava? It tells you your items burned. Died in the void or a cramped spot? Items drop naturally with a message. Nothing ever vanishes silently
• Multiplayer-safe — per-player death handling, no cross-player leaks
• Simple admin control — /function graves:info for help, /function graves:config/toggle to enable/disable globally

Installation

1. Download the .zip.
2. Drop it into your world’s datapacks/ folder.
3. Run /reload. Done.

License: MIT. Author: acidaras. Game version: Minecraft Java 26.3.