Death Chest

Die, and your gear waits for you in a chest — not scattered across the landscape. Death Chest catches everything you would have dropped and puts it in a chest at your death spot: your items and your XP. You're told the coordinates the moment you die, and the chest sits there — through restarts — until you come back and empty it.

• Everything saved: all your drops go into the chest, which becomes a double chest when you die with a full inventory (up to 54 stacks)
• Your XP is in there too: the XP you would have dropped is stored and handed back when you open the chest. Turn on full-xp-restore and you get topped back up to the full level you died at instead — a top-up only, it never takes XP away, so levels you earn on the way back are safe
• Find it any time: /deathchest (or /deathchest where) repeats your chest's location and how long it's been waiting
• Yours only: nobody else can open your chest while it's protected (staff with deathchest.bypass can). Hoppers can't drain it and explosions can't blow it up, and chests persist across server restarts
• Optional teleport home: let players /deathchest tp straight to their own chest, and optionally charge them for it through Vault (use-economy + tp-cost) — a failed teleport refunds automatically
• Admin tools: /deathchest list shows every waiting chest with owner, location, age, and stored XP; /deathchest tp <player> and /deathchest reload round it out
• Configurable: how long a chest stays owner-only (protect-minutes), when unclaimed chests expire (expire-minutes), and whether the death message shows — all in a commented config.yml

Requirements: Paper 26.3 (Minecraft 26.3). Vault plus an economy plugin are only needed if you turn on the teleport charge — everything else works standalone.

Honest notes: if there is genuinely nowhere safe to place a chest at the death spot, your items drop the normal vanilla way — the plugin never eats items to make a point. XP-only chests (dying with empty pockets but XP in the bank) look like an empty chest; your XP is inside and pays out when you open it.

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