
Death Recovery
This plugin will put an annoying challenge for gridners, it will put your items into a chest after death anyone can collect that chest, and admins can put…
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Death Recovery
A clean, configurable “death chest” plugin with virtual 54-slot GUI and hovering hologram timer.
📦 Overview
When a player dies, ChallengingDeathRecovery spawns a visual chest block and opens a virtual 54-slot inventory containing their items (with a configurable percentage lost to “trash”). Above the chest appears an invisible ArmorStand hologram, showing who died, by what cause, and how long ago. Once the player has fully emptied their chest, the GUI, hologram, and block automatically vanish—no clutter, no ghost chests.
⚙️ Features
Virtual 54-slot chest GUI
Never worry about overflow or mismatched inventory sizes.
Configurable item loss
Define a percentage of items to trash on death (e.g. “20% lost”).
Hologram timer
Displays “✦ died via ,” updating every 60 seconds.
Automatic cleanup
Chest block, hologram, and stored data vanish once emptied (or on server/plugin shutdown).
Safe interactions
Prevents block-breaking or damage to death chests and holograms.
Edge-case handling
Cleans up on GUI close, player disconnects, or plugin reload.
📖 Usage
Death
On death, all drops are collected, a random X% are removed, and the rest are placed in a 54-slot GUI.
Interact
Right-click the spawned chest to open the GUI.
Retrieve
Take your items. When the GUI is empty, the chest block and hologram disappear.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- 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 Modrinth — 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.
- Ships as challengingdeathrecovery.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 8 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.