Customizing Death Container Appearance and Despawn Timers

Server hosts can change how death containers look in the world and control how much time players have to retrieve their belongings.

Switching Between Chests and Player Heads

1. Navigate to your server files and open the Dead Chest settings.

2. Find the container appearance option in the configuration.

3. Choose between placing a standard chest or a custom player head at the player's death coordinates. Whichever container style you pick will still display the floating hologram overhead with the owner's name and remaining countdown.

Setting Timers and Per-World Rules

1. Locate the despawn timer settings in the same configuration area.

2. Set a custom timer duration to give players a fixed window to return, or enable the infinite chest option so containers stay at the death spot indefinitely until emptied.

3. Open the per-world rules section if you want different mechanics across dimensions.

4. Configure individual worlds—such as the Overworld, the Nether, or the End—with their own timer durations or container rules to make dangerous dimensions more or less forgiving.

5. Save the configuration file and restart or reload your server (whether running standard server software or a multithreaded Folia environment) so the new timers take effect.