PlayerDeadManager (PDM) - User Manual
Plugin Overview
PlayerDeadManager is a powerful tombstone plugin that automatically creates a tombstone to protect your items and experience when you die in the game. You can retrieve your items through various methods including direct interaction, GUI interfaces, and teleportation features.
Plugin Overview
Core Features
Tombstone System
- Auto Creation: Automatically creates tombstones at death location
- Item Protection: Protects all dropped items and experience points
- Time Protection: Tombstones are accessible only by owner for a certain period
- Auto Cleanup: Automatically cleans unclaimed tombstones after 24 hours
- Quantity Limit: Each player can have maximum 3 tombstones simultaneously
- Special Item: Use saving totems to protect items upon death
- Consumption Mechanism: Automatically consumes 1 saving totem when dying
- Complete Protection: Items and experience won't drop when using totems
- Teleport GUI: View all tombstone locations and quick teleportation
- Item Recovery GUI: Directly retrieve items and experience from interface
- Intuitive Operation: Complete various operations with simple clicks
Post-Death Operation Flow
- Upon Death: System automatically creates tombstone and displays location info
- Finding Tombstone:
- Use /pdm list to view tombstone list
- Use /pdm gui to open teleport interface
- Follow particle effects and hologram guidance
- Item Recovery:
- Right-click tombstone to open item recovery interface
- Click items in GUI to retrieve them directly
- Click experience button to retrieve experience points
Method 1: Direct Interaction
- Right-click Tombstone: Opens item recovery GUI interface
- Right-click Items in GUI: Retrieves items to inventory
- Click Experience Button: Retrieves all experience points
- View List: /pdm list - Shows all tombstone locations
- Teleport to Tombstone: /pdm teleport <number> - Teleports to specified tombstone
- Open GUI: /pdm gui - Opens teleport interface
Basic Commands
Command Description Permission
/pdm help Show help information playerdeadmanager.use
/pdm list View your tombstone list playerdeadmanager.list
/pdm gui Open teleport GUI interface playerdeadmanager.gui
/pdm teleport <number> Teleport to specified tombstone playerdeadmanager.teleport
/pdm info View plugin information playerdeadmanager.use
Admin Commands
Command Description Permission
/pdm reload Reload configuration files playerdeadmanager.admin.reload
Command Aliases
- /pdm = /playerdeadmanager
- All commands support full names
Player Permissions
- playerdeadmanager.use - Basic permission to use tombstone system (Default: All players)
- playerdeadmanager.gui - Permission to use GUI interfaces (Default: All players)
- playerdeadmanager.teleport - Permission to teleport to tombstones (Default: All players)
- playerdeadmanager.list - Permission to view tombstone list (Default: All players)
- playerdeadmanager.admin - Administrator permission (Default: OP)
- playerdeadmanager.admin.reload - Permission to reload config (Default: OP)
- playerdeadmanager.access.expired - Permission to access expired tombstones (Default: OP)
- playerdeadmanager.* - All permissions
Teleport GUI Interface
- Interface Title: "Death Location Teleport"
- Tombstone Icons: Shows tombstone location, death time, protection status
- Click to Teleport: Click tombstone icon to teleport to that location
- Cost Display: Shows required coins if teleport cost is enabled
- Interface Title: "Tombstone Item Recovery"
- Item Display: First 5 rows show all items in tombstone
- Experience Button: Last row shows experience retrieval button
- Close Button: Close interface button in last row
- Right-click to Take: Right-click items to retrieve them to inventory
Visual Guidance System
- Hologram Display: Shows owner and time information above tombstone
- Particle Effects: Generates particle effects around tombstone for easy finding
- Distance Hints: Shows discovery hints when approaching tombstones
- Time Protection: Only owner can access tombstone for 60 minutes after creation
- Expired Access: Other players can loot items after protection period
- Looting Notification: Receive notification when other players loot your tombstone
- Complete Recovery: Tombstone owner can fully retrieve experience
- Partial Gain: Other players only get 50% experience when looting
- Level Protection: Configurable whether to preserve experience levels
Enabled Worlds
- Tombstone feature enabled in all worlds by default
- Can customize enabled world list through config file
- Tombstone feature disabled in Nether and End by default
- Administrators can adjust disabled world list through config file
Teleport Cost
- Configurable whether teleporting to tombstones requires cost
- Requires Vault plugin support
- Default cost: 100 coins (configurable)
- Cost system can be completely disabled
Supported Plugins
- Vault: Economy system support
- Oraxen: Custom block support
- WorldGuard: Region protection support (optional)
- GriefPrevention: Land protection support (optional)
- Server: Paper 1.20.1 or higher
- Java Version: Java 17 or higher
Quick Item Recovery
- Immediately use /pdm gui to open teleport interface after death
- Click the latest tombstone icon to teleport to death location
- Right-click tombstone to open item recovery interface
- Right-click needed items to quickly retrieve them
- Prepare saving totems (Totem of Undying) in advance
- Keep totems in inventory
- Totems automatically activate upon death, items won't drop
- Use /pdm list to view all tombstones
- Remember tombstone numbers, use /pdm teleport <number> for quick teleport
- Clean up unnecessary tombstones timely to avoid reaching quantity limit
Q: Why wasn't my tombstone created?
A: Check if tombstone feature is enabled in current world and if you've reached the tombstone quantity limit.
Q: Can other players take my items?
A: Tombstones have a 60-minute protection period during which only you can access them. After expiration, other players can loot them.
Q: When do tombstones disappear?
A: Tombstones automatically clean up after 24 hours, or disappear immediately when all items are retrieved.
Q: How do I get saving totems?
A: Saving totems are regular Totems of Undying, obtainable through normal in-game methods.
Q: Does teleportation require cost?
A: No cost by default, administrators can enable teleport costs through config file.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.21
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Spigot — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
del is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.21. Downloaded 224 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.