⚰ Fiw Graves

A place for your things when you're gone.

Die, and your items and XP settle into a grave — a floating head, a few lines of text, and one of seven dry epitaphs. Walk back, crack it open, move on with your life.

For Minecraft 1.21.11 on Fabric and NeoForge.

The graves aren't really there

The marker you see — head and hologram — is made of pure network packets. No armor stand, no display entity, nothing is ever written into your world or its chunks.

What that buys you:

• 🖥 Nothing on the client. Players join with a completely unmodified vanilla client. Drop the jar on the server and you're done.
• 💥 Crash-proof by construction. Server crash, world rollback, mod removed — there is nothing to leak. No floating heads, no orphaned holograms, no ghost entities to /kill. Markers are rebuilt from the save file on every boot.
• 💾 World-native saves. Grave data rides Minecraft's own SavedData pipeline, so it backs up and restores with the world itself.

Griefed? Rolled back. Buggy? Backed up.

Every grave that expires or gets emptied by someone else is kept in a short per-player history. One command respawns the lost loot as a fresh grave:

/graves rollback <player>

On top of that, the original contents of every grave are separately backed up the moment it's created — kept for a configurable number of days regardless of whether the grave was collected normally. If a bug (in this mod or anywhere else) ever eats a player's loot, an operator can still pull it back:

/graves restore <player>

A safety net most grave mods don't have — twice over.

In the field

• Right-click the head to open the grave like a chest.
• Sneak + right-click to quick-collect everything — armor jumps straight into empty armor slots.
• XP comes back the moment you interact.
• Die in lava, deep water, or the void and the grave settles at the nearest open, dry spot instead of drowning with you.
• Graves crumble after 10 minutes (configurable) and drop whatever's left.

Commands

Admin commands gate on vanilla operator level 2 — no permission mod required.

* Grave teleporting is off for regular players by default — finding your way back is part of the game. Set playerGraveTeleport to true if you want everyone to have it; operators can always teleport.

Config

config/fiwgraves/config.json — gameplay only; all text lives in the mod.

{
  "despawnSeconds": 600,          // grave lifetime, -1 = forever
  "removeWhenEmptied": true,
  "dropItemsOnExpire": true,      // crumbling graves drop their leftovers

  "quickCollectEnabled": true,    // sneak-interact sweep
  "quickCollectOwnerOnly": false,
  "equipArmorOnCollect": true,
  "ownerOnlyAccess": false,       // lock graves to their owner

  "storeItems": true,
  "storeExperience": true,
  "overrideKeepInventory": false, // capture even when keepInventory is on
  "experienceStoredFraction": 1.0,

  "playerGraveTeleport": false,   // let non-ops use /graves tp

  "graveLimitPerPlayer": -1,      // oldest crumbles past the cap, 0/-1 = unlimited
  "rollbackHistoryPerPlayer": 5,
  "rollbackRetentionMinutes": 1440,
  "lootBackupRetentionDays": 7,   // safety-net copy, survives collection; 0 = off, -1 = forever

  "markerHeight": -0.6,           // head offset from the death spot
  "hologramHeight": 0.5,
  "headTextureOverride": "",      // base64 skin for every grave head, "" = owner's skin

  "disabledDimensions": [],       // e.g. "minecraft:the_end"
  "blacklistedDamageTypes": [],   // deaths that never make a grave
  "blacklistedItems": []          // items that drop instead of being stored
}

FAQ

Do players need the mod? No. Everything is server-side; vanilla clients see graves perfectly.

Does it work in singleplayer? Yes — install it like any mod. (Your game hosts the world, so the same server logic runs.)

What happens if the server crashes? Nothing bad. Markers are packets, not entities — the save file is the single source of truth and everything is rebuilt on boot.

keepInventory? Respected by default; flip overrideKeepInventory if you want graves anyway.

More than a double-chest of loot? All of it is kept — overflow shifts into view as you empty slots, and quick-collect always sweeps everything.