Gravestone Graves Wiki & Guide

A gravestone spawns at your death location containing all your items. Click on it with a shovel to retrieve items without destroying it, or break the gravestone to collect everything at once.

Gravestones have special appearances based on how you died—skeleton corpses appear when you starve or wither, and charged creeper statues appear when you die from explosions.

Use a silk touch pickaxe to pick up the gravestone; this preserves all stored items and death information. Breaking it without silk touch will drop the items but lose the gravestone data.

By default, yes—anyone can access your gravestone. Check your mod configuration to enable owner-only access if you want to restrict who can take items from your graves.

Those are memorials—decorative blocks that generate randomly in the world and in cemeteries. They're purely cosmetic and don't store items like gravestones do.

Wither's catacombs are large underground structures that generate in the world similar to strongholds. Explore caves and dig down to discover them, or check your mod's biome settings if generation seems disabled.

Yes—click a gravestone with flowers in your hand to plant them, or use vines to make it mossy. Use shears to remove either decoration.

An enchanted aura appears on gravestones when you were killed by magic damage, indicating the cause of death.

Gravestones can only be placed on diggable blocks by default, though this can be changed in the configuration. You can pick them up and move them freely as long as you use the right tool.

Yes—when dogs, cats, horses, or villagers die, gravestones spawn with special models representing each type. These work similarly to player gravestones but won't store items.