DeadChest
The ultimate solution to protect player inventories on death
DeadChest automatically converts a player's dropped inventory into a secure chest at the exact location of death.
Each chest displays a hologram with the owner's name and a configurable countdown timer.
When the timer expires, the chest and its contents are permanently removed.
Fully customizable: define custom durations, create infinite chests, and choose between private (owner/admin only) or public access.

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Key Features
- Automatically stores the entire player inventory on death (including armor)
- Chest spawns at the exact death location
- Holographic display showing owner and remaining time
- Private or public chest access
- Optional XP storage
- Grief protection (explosion and destruction control)
- WorldGuard integration
- Fully compatible with Minecraft 1.13.2 – 26.1.x
- Folia support !
Advanced Features
- Unlimited players and unlimited chests
- Per-world configuration
- Gamemode-based management
- Item filtering and management
- Choose between chest or player head container
- Citizens 2 compatibility
- Detailed logging system for every DeadChest event (no more player disputes)
- Advanced permission system
Fully Customizable
- Chest duration
- Chest access (private/public)
- Hologram content
- Text colors
- Griefable chests (enable/disable destruction)
- Maximum number of chests per player
- Multi-language support
- Drop behavior customization
- And much more
Documention link
Since version 4.5.0, DeadChest uses bStats to collect anonymous usage statistics to help improve the plugin.
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DeadChests are FULLY customizable!

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| Command | Description | Permission |
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/dc reload |
Reload the plugin |
deadchest.admin |
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/dc remove |
Remove all deadchests of the current player |
deadchest.remove.own |
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/dc remove (PlayerName) |
Remove all deadchests of a player |
deadchest.remove.other |
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/dc removeinfinite |
Remove all infiny chest |
deadchest.admin |
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/dc removeall |
Remove all deadchests |
deadchest.admin |
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/dc list |
List all deadchest of the current player |
deadchest.list.own |
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/dc list all |
List all deadchest |
deadchest.list.other |
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/dc list (PlayerName) |
List all deadchest of a player |
deadchest.list.other |
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/dc giveBack (PlayerName) |
Return the oldest deadchest inventory of a player to him |
deadchest.giveBack |
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/dc ignore |
Opens the ignore list inventory to add items Deadchest should ignore. |
deadchest.admin |
deadchest.generate : Allow a player to generate deadchests
deadchest.chestPass : Allow a player to get all deadchests
deadchest.infinityChest : Allow a player to have a infinity chest

First Installation
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Download DeadChest.jar
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Restart or start your server
The plugin will automatically generate its configuration files inside:
/plugins/DeadChest/
Generated Files
config.yml
Main configuration file.
Use this file to customize plugin settings and behavior.
locale.yml
Language file (English by default).
You can edit this file to translate messages into your preferred language.
deadchest.log
Contains a detailed log of all DeadChest events.


Please read the FAQ if you have any trouble. If you find any issue, please report it on Github or Discord
You will find below the list of all my plugins. They are all updated with the latest version and try to offer you the best experience possible.
- SpawnerSilk : Mine spawners with silk touch.
- DeadChest : Keep your inventory in a chest when you die
- Cryweather : Manage time easily
- RedStoneMe : Activate redstone with your presence
- MendingEnchant : Allow you to have mending with your enchant table
- MobsManager : Manage which mobs can spawn on your server or not
- CreatureCapture : Capture any creatures you see with a special bow





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Posted Oct 15, 2019In reply to Forge_User_66025067:
Hum.. strange. I'm only developping this plugin on bukkit/curseforge. So if you download a plugin with the same name but with another author name, it's not from me. I'm working alone.
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Posted Oct 3, 2019If the player falls into the void or dies in the lava, how to recover the items?
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Posted Oct 4, 2019In reply to llwinchester_hots:
If the player falls into the void, , no chest in generated, this feature in planned for a future update.
If player dies in lava, a chest will be generate at the position he dies, so you need to find a way to remove lava around the chest ! :)
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Posted Sep 25, 2019The patch version 2.2 you made fixed the spawning chest problem underground; however, I am now seeing a "Loading" holographic display for those chests. It doesn't occur elsewhere including the nether though.
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Posted Sep 26, 2019In reply to ice_drake1:
Noted ! Thanks for your feedback again ! I will patch it in the next version :)
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Posted Sep 26, 2019In reply to crylonz:
Found another problem. I noticed an occurrence where the chest spawning location in the nether has somehow ended up above bedrock, not the other times I tested it though. It makes the chest impossible to be reached. Also, apparently the previous problem came back. Sometimes, the chest appears above the ground instead of underground.
Unrelated, I am running into a compatibility bug for this plugin with two other plugins called Citizens 2 and Sentinel. The two plugins allow me to create fighting NPCs that its type is a player except it isn't controlled by any real player. When it dies, it ends up creating a chest for it. This is fine with me; however, I run into null exception errors if I restarted the server with these chests intact (in other words, they hasn't expired or disappeared yet). I figured the reason is that NPCs aren't really players.
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Posted Sep 29, 2019In reply to ice_drake1:
Can you explain more about the first part of your message ? For the NPC, yes it's because it's NPCs aren't really player, I will check if I can found a way to remove this exception !
Thanks for taking time !
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Posted Sep 29, 2019In reply to crylonz:
So far, I can't pinpoint exactly why the chest sometimes appears elsewhere (like way above) as suppose to where the person dies. I will let you know more when I can see a pattern.
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Posted Oct 9, 2019In reply to crylonz:
Well, after a couple of trials and errors and a talk with Citizens 2 supports, there seems to be no way to prevent dead chest from spawning. If only the NPCs do obey permissions like regular players, the compatibility issue can be fixed, but apparently, they don't. I even went in to set the default value of deadchest.keepInventory to false in plugin.yml and give real player that permission. It didn't even stop working. Do you think there is a way to disable this plugin for those NPCs or something of that sort? The developers of Citizens suggested using entity.hasMetadata("NPC").
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Posted Oct 10, 2019In reply to ice_drake1:
Yes, I think so ! I will send you a PM for more information.
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Posted Sep 24, 2019I'm having some problems with this plugin. everybody keeps seeing the OWNERS: floating in the air. After they died and opened the chest. I tried removing chest data but that didn't work. The text is still floating around, disabling or removing the plugin also doesnt work.
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Posted Sep 24, 2019In reply to Forge_User_90804215:
I know this bug, but I don't know when it produce and I can't reproduce it on my dev server. To clear buggued holograhic text : use /dc repair next to holograms. I think it's there is a conflict with another plugin, but not completely sure ! If you can give me more information, it would be cool.
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Posted Sep 16, 2019Hi, there. I really like your plugin. It prevents stealing through PvP; however, after using a while, my users and I kept run into chest spawning issue for Minecraft version 1.14.3. At first, I thought it was a random occurrence that I can't always reproduce the issue, there was no error logged, and I am using the latest version. But after a couple of more re-occurrence of the issue, I am finally able to reproduce the issue. Apparently, the chest does spawn, but the y-coordinate for chest ended up wrong when we die under the water level.
Apparently, if you die below water level, your chest will be above the water, which is good. But...if you die underground below water level, your chest ends up at the highest point above where you die. In the end, my users and I lost items, because we were looking for our chests at the wrong level.
So far, I don't know what happen to the chest if you die in the nether, because I didn't get the chance to observe it. But the chest isn't there where you die.
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Posted Sep 17, 2019In reply to ice_drake1:
Hi,
Thanks you for your feedback ! I understand your issue and I know what I have to do to patch it. I will release a update in a few day, maybe little more. Sorry for the inconvenience !
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Posted Sep 17, 2019In reply to crylonz:
Cool, thanks. I found another problem. I started using world border. And if I ended up dying outside the world border, there is null pointer exception.
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Posted Sep 18, 2019In reply to ice_drake1:
Noted
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Posted Sep 9, 2019Hey so I am having troubles with the holographic text
So what I tried first was to break the chests but that didnt do anything, then we tried to delete the plugin but that didnt do anything either
and then I stumbled upon dc_repair and dc_reload so I reinstalled the plugin and tried that but that doesnt do anything, I also tried killing entities and armor stands but that didnt do anything either.
What can we do now? there are 10 of these floating in our town and we cant get rid of them
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Posted Sep 10, 2019In reply to pinkopsycho:
Hi,
Sorry that you have trouble with the plugin. If /dc repair don't work that seem that you have a version under 2.0. if it's the case use the last version of the plugin (2.1).
Then try to used this command : /kill @e[type=minecraft:armor_stand]
If that not works. It's probably because you have Essential installed on your server (I don't know why but that's a fact ^^) So if you are in this case just removed the jar of Essential, do the command again et replace the essential jar, that should be fix your issue.
Hope I help you
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Posted Sep 6, 2019Hello,
I installed the plugin but I should never have:
_It does not work (no chest created) - no errors in the console, no errors when you die.
_Since I installed it, when you die, you keep all your XP and stuff in your inventory, as if you weren't dead what. Even if the plugin is removed, the problem persists.
plugin installed :
automatic inventory
backpack remastered
cristreedecapitator
dynmap
dynmapstructures
loginsecurity
singlepersonsleep
uncraftingtable
wands
zenchantments
Server 1.14.4 Paper (same with craftbukkit or spigot)
Thnak you in advance
XY
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Posted Sep 6, 2019In reply to ixeygrek:
Hello,
Which version of the plugin do you used ?if you don't have 2.1 please update to this version Your issue is very strange. First thing, if you remove the plugin, it can't interact with your server so, it's necessary an other plugin that make death not work (maybe a configuration of the plugin change when using deadchest first time ?). Can you please test using deadchest on your server without other plugin ? If it's doesn't work there is an issue with the plugin, if it's work it's an other plugin problem. I can't help you more whithout error. You are currently the only one that report this kind of issue. Sorry that you have some trouble with the plugin.I'm waiting for your reply