Managing Experience Storage and Item Drop Filters

Beyond saving standard tools and armor, server operators can control whether experience points are preserved on death and exclude specific items from safe storage.

Enabling Experience Point Storage

1. Open the Dead Chest configuration files in your server's plugins directory.

2. Find the experience storage setting.

3. Enable the option to store a player's experience points inside the protective chest or player head alongside their regular inventory and armor set. If you leave it disabled, items will still enter the container while experience is handled separately.

Filtering Which Items Enter the Chest

1. Locate the item filtering section within the plugin settings.

2. Add any items that you do not want safely stored upon death to the filter list—useful if you want high-stakes resources or special trophies to remain vulnerable during survival or combat.

3. Save your settings and apply the changes on your server.

4. Test a death in game: when a player dies carrying filtered items, Dead Chest will secure the rest of their inventory and equipment inside the hologram-marked container while letting those specific filtered items drop onto the ground normally at the death coordinates.