GlymeraDeadChest - Death Items Stored in a Grave

On death, all your items (backpack, hotbar, armor, equipped tool) are placed in a grave block at your death position. Pick them back up before the timer runs out.

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What is GlymeraDeadChest?

When a player dies, their entire inventory would normally drop on the ground and despawn. GlymeraDeadChest replaces that with a grave block that holds the items safely until the owner returns. Designed to be griefer-proof: the grave does not drop as an item, cannot be destroyed by other players, and survives terrain edits underneath.

Includes its own asset pack with three custom grave block types. Standard chests and tombstones in the world are not affected by this plugin.

Features

Death Capture

• All items are captured on death: backpack, hotbar, armor, and the tool currently held
• A grave block spawns at the death position (or up to 5 blocks higher if the spot is blocked)
• If no free spot is found, items drop normally as a fallback
• Creative mode players are skipped (matches Hytale's default no-drop behaviour in creative)

Three Custom Grave Block Types

Pick one in the config:

• GlymeraGrave_Tombstone (default) - looks like a stone tombstone
• GlymeraGrave_Coffin - looks like a stone coffin
• GlymeraGrave_Chest - looks like a wooden chest

All three are plugin-only blocks with no crafting recipe, no item drop when broken, and no support requirement. They are visually identical to the original Hytale models, but functionally separate from the regular furniture blocks.

Anti-Griefing

• Grave blocks cannot be damaged or broken by other players when ownerOnly is true (default)
• Grave blocks have no support requirement - removing the floor underneath does not destroy them
• Grave blocks have an empty drop list - they never produce an item, even if forced
• OPs can always interact (admin override)

Per-Player Limit

• Each player can have a configurable number of active graves (default: 3)
• When the limit is reached and a new grave would spawn, the oldest grave is automatically discarded along with its contents

Lifetime Timer

• Each grave has a configurable lifetime (default: 15 minutes, server wall-clock time)
• After expiry, the grave block and all its items are removed
• Server downtime counts toward the timer
• Expired graves are cleaned up immediately on server start

Custom UI for Inventory View

• Right-click a grave to open a custom UI listing all stored items with quantities and remaining lifetime
• "Take All" button transfers everything back to the player's inventory in one click
• Items that don't fit are dropped at the grave position

Break-Mode for Tombstones

• Tombstone-style graves (no Use interaction) can be broken to retrieve items - all stored items go directly into the inventory, anything that doesn't fit drops on the ground
• The grave block itself never drops as an item

Persistence

• Grave data is stored as JSON per grave UUID under plugins/GlymeraDeadChest/data/
• Survives server restarts and chunk unloads
• Owner mapping, world, coordinates, items (with durability and metadata), and spawn timestamp are all preserved

Commands

For Everyone

For OPs Only

Configuration

config.json (plugins/GlymeraDeadChest/config.json)

graveBlock        : GlymeraGrave_Tombstone   (or _Coffin / _Chest)
lifetimeMinutes   : 15
maxActiveGraves   : 3
ownerOnly         : true

Grave Data (plugins/GlymeraDeadChest/data/<uuid>.json)

Automatically managed - one JSON file per grave with the owner UUID, position, item list (with durability and metadata), block type, and spawn time.

Installation

1. Place GlymeraDeadChest-1.0.0.jar in your server's mods/ folder
2. Start (or restart) the server
3. Done! Config is auto-generated on first run.

How It Works

Grave Spawn Flow

1. Player dies (non-creative)
2. Plugin runs before Hytale's default item-drop system
3. inventory.dropAllItemStacks() empties the inventory and returns every stack (including armor and tool)
4. If a free spot is found near the death position, the configured grave block is placed there
5. Owner UUID, world, coordinates, all items, and spawn timestamp are persisted to disk
6. The default Hytale drop logic finds an empty inventory and drops nothing

Owner Protection

The plugin registers three ECS event systems:

• DamageBlockEvent - cancels block damage from non-owners (prevents tool-mining the grave)
• BreakBlockEvent - cancels break attempts from non-owners
• UseBlockEvent.Pre - cancels native interaction and routes owner clicks to the custom UI

OPs bypass all owner checks (admin override).

Drop Resistance

The custom grave block types are defined with no Support field and Material: Solid, which causes the physics system to treat them as floating decoration - they never drop due to lost ground support. As a defence in depth, the plugin also calls BlockPhysics.markDeco() on every grave block.

Good to Know

• The grave block contents are not stored in a native Hytale container - the plugin keeps its own JSON state. This means a grave can hold a player's full inventory regardless of how many backpack slots they have unlocked
• Tombstone and Coffin variants do not respond to right-click (no Use interaction in the asset). They are break-only - mine the block to retrieve items
• The Chest variant currently behaves the same as the others (break to retrieve) because the minimal block definition has no Use interaction. A future version may add a Use interaction to open the custom UI directly
• All grave blocks are added by this plugin only and have no crafting recipe - players cannot obtain them through normal play
• Grave timer ticks every 30 seconds, so a grave may persist up to ~30 seconds beyond its configured lifetime in the worst case

Made with care by Glymera for the Hytale community