GraveCompass | Death Graves That Keep Your Items + Recovery Compass [1.21+]

What is GraveCompass?
Every grave plugin does the same two things: it holds your items, and it tells you some coordinates in chat.

The first half works. The second half does not — chat is gone the moment three players talk, and writing numbers on a sticky note is nobody's idea of Minecraft.

GraveCompass gives you a compass whose needle actually points at your grave. In the Nether. In the End. Where a normal compass just spins. And everything you need to know is written on the item itself, rewritten every second:

That last line is the one you sell.


⚰️ The grave

• A head wearing the dead player's own skin, with floating text saying whose it is and how long it stays protected.
• Protected for a while, then open to everyone. That is what makes dying out in the open cost something. Owner-only forever and never-protected are both one number away.
• One grave per player. Earn a new one while the old is uncollected and the contents move across. You never lose anything by dying twice, and no server ends up carpeted in old graves.
• Experience comes back with it, and how much is up to you.

It does not lose your things
This is where most grave plugins quietly fail, so it was built first.

• Died in lava? The grave rises out of it and floats above the surface with everything inside. A player head needs no support, so it simply hangs there.
• Nowhere to place it? The items drop the vanilla way and the player is told — never silently deleted.
• Server killed hard and the world lost the block? The grave puts itself back on the next start. Your data was never in the world file.
• Somebody built where it stood? It moves to the nearest free spot instead of destroying their block.

What you can sell
Two things, and both are configured the same way: how often a player gets a grave, and how often they can teleport to it.

• The block name is only a label for you. What counts is the permission and the number.
• The lowest number among the ranks a player holds wins — stacking ranks can never punish them.
• Anyone holding none falls back to default. 0 means no wait at all.
• Add or remove ranks freely. Nothing else in the plugin needs to change.

Teleporting also needs gravecompass.teleport, which nobody has by default — not even ops. Players without it still see the world, the coordinates and the distance, plus a line you write yourself telling them what they are missing and where to get it.


⌨️ Commands
Base: /grave · aliases /graves, /gc, /tumba

• /grave compass — get the compass to your grave
• /grave list — your grave and where it is
• /grave near — the graves around you (admin)
• /grave reload — reload config and language (admin)

⚙️ Configuration

• The config updates itself. A new version brings its new options in with their documentation, and keeps everything you changed.
• All four language files do too — not just the one you selected, so switching language never hands you an outdated file.
• Turn graves off per world, for your arena or minigame maps.
• Sounds, particles, hologram range and the dark box behind the text are all yours to tune.

⚠️ Using WorldEdit? Read this
WorldEdit claims the plain compass as its navigation wand, so any staff member holding its permissions gets thrown to wherever they are looking on right-click. GraveCompass takes the click first and stops that. If anything still fights you, switch the item to RECOVERY_COMPASS in the config — it exists since 1.19, it fits the theme, and WorldEdit does not touch it.


Installation

1. Drop the jar in plugins/ and start the server. No dependencies.
2. Pick your language in config.yml: en, es, fr or zh.
3. Give gravecompass.teleport to the rank that should be able to teleport.
4. Set your ranks in grave-cooldowns and teleport-cooldowns, then /grave reload.

Full guide & configuration: https://infinity3113.mc-paradise.com/plugins/gravecompass/


Licence & Terms
GravesCompass is free, but it is not public domain. It remains the work of infinity3113.

You MAY:

• Use it on any server or network, public or private, with no player limit.
• Use it on a server that charges its players (ranks, donations, shops). What you may not charge for is the plugin itself.
• Edit the configuration and language files however you like.
• Translate the language files and share those translations.

You MAY NOT:

• Re-upload or mirror the plugin on any site, marketplace, Discord, forum or file host. Please link to this page instead.
• Sell it, or include it in any paid package, bundle, "plugin pack", server setup or hosting offer.
• Decompile, deobfuscate, reverse-engineer or republish its source code.
• Remove or alter the author credits, the plugin name or the licence notice.
• Claim authorship of it, or present a modified copy as your own work.

GravesCompass is an original work. It is not a fork, port or modification of any other plugin.

Provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. The author is not liable for any damage, downtime or data loss arising from its use.

Full terms: infinity3113.mc-paradise.com/plugins/terminos.html