Advanced Tombstone
Your items and XP go into a tombstone where you died — retrieve them safely instead of racing a despawn timer.
⬇ Download on CurseForgeBedrock Advanced Death Pack
You died. Your stuff is fine.
No more sprinting back to a lava pit hoping the despawn timer was kind. When you die, everything you were carrying — every item, every level of XP — goes into a tombstone standing exactly where you fell. It doesn't scatter. It doesn't burn. It doesn't blow up. Creepers can't touch it.
What it does
Everything goes in the tombstone. Your full inventory and your XP, stored safely in a block at your death spot. Nothing drops on the ground, so nothing lands in lava, floats away down a river, or quietly despawns while you're running back.
Take what you want, when you want. Interact with the tombstone to open a menu listing everything inside. Grab a single stack, or hit Take All and carry on. The tombstone disappears once it's empty.
Or just break it. Mining the tombstone drops everything at once and hands your XP straight back.
A compass that actually points home. The death compass tracks your most recent tombstone with a live distance readout. Died in the Nether and respawned in the Overworld? It tells you which dimension to head for.
Your armor goes back on. Recovered armor is equipped to your body automatically instead of clogging your hotbar.
Explosion-proof. The tombstone survives creepers, TNT, and ghast fireballs. It also glows faintly, so you can spot it at night.
Piston-proof, command-proof. Push it with a piston, /setblock over it, /clone it across the world — your items follow the tombstone. The pack tracks tombstones by identity, not by coordinates.
Make it yours
Operators run /tombstone:tombstoneconfig in-game to open a settings menu. Every option is saved per-world.
| Setting | Default | Options |
|---|---|---|
| XP loss | Vanilla | Vanilla / 25% tax / 50% tax / Keep everything |
| Death compass | On | On / Off |
| Messages | On | On / Off |
| Broadcast deaths to server | Off | On / Off |
| Auto-equip armor | On | On / Off |
| Tombstone lifetime | 30 minutes | 1 min / 10 min / 30 min / 1 hour / Forever |
Running a hardcore server? Turn on the 50% XP tax and a 10-minute timer, and death still stings — it just stops being a scavenger hunt. Playing casually? Set XP loss to Keep everything and lifetime to Forever.
Installing
- Download the
.mcaddonand open it — Minecraft imports both packs for you. - In your world settings, enable both the Behavior Pack and the Resource Pack.
- Play.
Requires Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.10 or newer. No experimental toggles required.
One note: the pack turns on
keepInventoryfor the world. That's deliberate — it's what stops vanilla from scattering your items before the tombstone can claim them. Death still costs you XP according to your settings; the tombstone just handles your gear instead of the ground.
Terms of use
You're welcome to use this add-on in your own worlds and on any server you run, including public ones. Please don't reupload it to other sites, bundle it into modpacks, or redistribute it modified — link here instead.
All rights reserved.
Advanced Tombstone is a free Minecraft Bedrock addon. Compatible with Minecraft 26.0. Downloaded 4 times (via CurseForge). Download it and open it directly in the game.