WIKI: https://docs.maxking.lat/

MaxGraves

MaxGraves is a lightweight graves plugin for modern Minecraft servers. When a player dies, the plugin can store their items and experience in a temporary grave at or near the death location, give the player a locator map after respawn, and let them recover their contents safely.

Features

• Creates a grave when a player dies and stores their dropped items and experience.
• Prevents the original death drops and dropped experience from duplicating after a grave is created.
• Gives the owner a locator map after respawn for every active grave that does not already have a locator in the player's inventory.
• Lets players right click their locator map to teleport to the linked grave when they have permission.
• Supports multiple active graves per player, sorted by remaining lifetime in the info menu.
• Opens a GUI with the player's active graves through /maxgraves info.
• Shows each grave's world, coordinates, remaining time, and internal grave ID in the info menu.
• Automatically equips recovered armor and off-hand items when the matching equipment slot is empty.
• Drops recovered overflow items at the player when their inventory is full.
• Stores and returns experience when the grave is claimed.
• Removes expired graves automatically after the configured lifetime.
• Removes the owner's locator when the linked grave is claimed or expires.
• Searches nearby blocks for a safe grave position when the exact death location is blocked.
• Supports world blacklists where graves should never be created.
• Respects keepInventory; no grave is created when the death event keeps the player's inventory.
• Supports private graves by default.
• Can optionally make graves from player kills public through grave.access.public-player-kill.
• Detects player killers, projectile killers, tamed entity owners, named mobs, and environmental deaths for hologram placeholders.
• Supports two grave marker modes: player head graves and chest graves.
• Protects grave blocks from normal breaking, explosions, fire, flowing blocks, pistons, and hopper-style item movement.
• Supports configurable holograms with placeholders.
• Supports configurable particles and ambient sounds for head graves.
• Supports configurable claim animations with visual lightning and sound.
• Supports bilingual message files through general.language (en and es are bundled).
• Automatically adds missing keys from bundled YAML files to existing config and language files.
• Supports runtime reload of settings, messages, grave visuals, update checks, and bStats state.
• Includes optional update checks and admin join notifications when a new version is detected.
• Includes optional anonymous bStats metrics.
• Includes death-event debug logging for troubleshooting drop or experience conflicts.

Requirements

• Java 21.
• A modern Paper/Spigot-compatible server with API version 1.21.
• Targets Paper API 26.1.2.build.53-stable.

REMEMBER TO CHECK THE WIKI TO STAY UP-TO-DATE ON PERMISSIONS AND COMMANDS

Commands

The main command is /maxgraves.

Aliases:

• /maxgrave
• /mg
• /graves

All aliases support the same subcommands, for example /mg info and /mg reload.

Permissions

Grave claiming is not controlled by a Bukkit permission. It is controlled by ownership and the configured access policy:

• Owners can claim or open their own graves.
• Non-owners cannot claim private graves.
• If grave.access.public-player-kill is enabled, graves created by player kills can be opened or looted by other players.
• Locator maps can only be used by the owner of the linked grave, even when teleport permission is granted.

Grave Marker Modes

Head Mode

grave.marker.type: "HEAD"

Head graves place a player head marker. This mode supports:

• Holograms.
• Particle effects.
• Ambient grave sound.
• One-click claiming by right clicking or breaking the grave marker.
• Claim animation before rewards are returned.

Chest Mode

grave.marker.type: "CHEST"

Chest graves place a chest marker and open a grave inventory. This mode supports:

• Holograms.
• Taking items one by one from the grave inventory.
• Automatic grave completion when the chest inventory becomes empty.
• Experience reward for the player who empties the grave.
• Overflow handling: if more than 54 item stacks would be stored, extra stacks are dropped at the grave location.

Chest mode intentionally does not use particles or claim animations.

Configuration

Main settings live in plugins/MaxGraves/config.yml.

Hologram Placeholders

The following placeholders can be used in grave.hologram.lines:

Info Menu Placeholders

The following placeholders can be used in messages.info-menu-item-name and messages.info-menu-item-lore:

Messages

Message files are stored in:

• plugins/MaxGraves/lang/messages_en.yml
• plugins/MaxGraves/lang/messages_es.yml

The active file is selected with general.language.

The plugin supports legacy color codes and hex colors in messages.

Runtime Notes

• Active graves are stored in memory while the server is running.
• Server shutdown or plugin disable removes active grave blocks and visuals.
• /maxgraves reload reloads settings without disabling the plugin.
• Existing config and language files are automatically updated with missing bundled keys.
• Invalid marker types fall back to HEAD.
• Invalid info menu materials fall back to PAPER.
• Invalid particles or sounds fall back to safe defaults and log a warning.

Support

For questions, bugs, ideas, or suggestions, join the support Discord:

https://discord.gg/Vr46JHm2kd