NT-graves

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Universal, high-reliability player death chest & grave protection plugin for Minecraft 1.8.8 to 1.21.4+ (Paper, Purpur, Spigot).

Protects player items, equipped armor, offhand, and stored XP upon death by spawning a safe grave block with animated countdown holograms, instant shift-pickup, death compass tracking, and a comprehensive admin management GUI with full historical archive recovery.

Features

• 🪦 Safe Death Item Protection:
  • Automatically spawns a protective grave at the exact death coordinate.
  • Keeps inventory, equipped armor, offhand, and experience levels safe from despawning, void/lava loss, and accidental destruction.
• ✨ Animated Hologram Countdown:
  • Displays a clean holographic countdown above the grave showing the player's name, remaining expiration timer, and items/XP count.
• 🧭 Death Compass Tracking:
  • Automatically equips dying players with a tracking compass pointing directly towards their active grave upon respawn.
• ⚡ Instant Shift-Pickup & Auto-Equip:
  • Sneak-right-click to instantly loot all items directly back into the player's inventory, automatically equipping their saved armor pieces.
• 🖥️ Full Admin GUI & Historical Archive:
  • /graves admin opens an interactive GUI for server admins to inspect active graves, teleport, modify timers, or restore expired death inventories from disk archives.
• 🌐 Bilingual & Live Language Switching:
  • Configurable in config.yml (language: "en" or "de").
  • Toggle live anytime via /graves lang <de|en>.
• 💾 Robust Async Persistence:
  • Active and archived graves persist to disk and survive unexpected server restarts, reloads, or crashes.

Commands & Permissions

Configuration (config.yml)

# Language setting: "en" for English, "de" for German
language: "en"

prefix: "&8[&6niktrick-graves&8] &7"

# Despawn time in seconds (1200s = 20 minutes; -1 for infinite)
despawn-time-seconds: 1200

# Drop items when grave expires
drop-items: true
dropped-item-velocity: true

# Instant sneak-pickup
enable-instant-pickup: true
instant-pickup-only-own: false

# Auto-equip saved armor when collected
auto-equip-armor: true

# Experience storage
store-xp: true
xp-keep-percentage: 1.0

# Persistence
save-graves:
  enabled: true
  auto-save-seconds: 30

Compatibility

• Minecraft: 1.8.8, 1.12.2, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21.x+
• Server Software: Paper, Purpur, Spigot
• Java: 8 to 25+ (compiled to Java 8 bytecode for maximum compatibility)