How to Set Up Decorative Graves and Attract Grave Guardians

Decorative graves provide aesthetic value to your base while functioning as hubs for harvesting magical souls and recruiting defensive allies.

Placing and Inscribing Decorative Graves

You can obtain decorative graves through crafting or finding them in the world.

1. Place the decorative grave block on the ground in your chosen cemetery or base area.

2. Bring the grave to an anvil to engrave a custom name onto it, personalizing your cemetery markers.

3. Observe the grave at night to see a distinct fog particle effect rising around it, signaling that it is active.

Harvesting Souls and Working with Grave Guardians

Over time, decorative graves can become haunted by floating souls. Interacting with these souls allows you to harvest them to upgrade your grave keys, enchant gear, or earn Knowledge of Death points.

Maintaining decorative graves also attracts a Grave Guardian to the area. This friendly mob wanders near your graves, actively fighting off hostile monsters to defend your perimeter. In addition to area protection, the Grave Guardian offers special trades that you can access by interacting with it directly.