How to Find and Recover Your Gear After Dying

When you die on a server running Dead Chest, your items do not scatter across the floor on a standard vanilla despawn clock. Instead, the plugin gathers your full inventory and equipped armor into a temporary protective container at your exact death coordinates.

Locating Your Death Container

1. Travel back to the exact spot where you died.

2. Look for a floating hologram hovering above the ground, which displays your player name and a live countdown timer showing how much time remains before the container despawns.

3. Check the block directly beneath the hologram; depending on how the server host configured it, your loot will sit inside either a standard chest or a player head.

4. Do not panic if hostile mobs trigger blasts nearby while you clear the area—the container is protected against explosions and griefing.

Retrieving Gear and Experience

1. Interact with the chest or player head to collect your stored inventory items and armor set.

2. On servers using private locks, only you can open your container; on public setups, other players can access it as well.

3. Check your experience bar when claiming your loot, as servers with optional experience storage enabled will hold your experience points alongside your gear.

4. Inspect the ground around the container before leaving in case the server uses item filtering to make specific items drop normally.