EchoGrave

EchoGrave is a lightweight Minecraft grave mod for Fabric and NeoForge. When a player dies, their items and optional XP are saved in a grave instead of being scattered across the world. The mod also includes a Grave Compass, /back support, grave trust access, configurable decay, and optional webhook notifications for server automation.

Features

Graves on death

• Stores the player's inventory in a grave at the death location.
• Remembers the death position for /back teleport support.
• Tries the death block first, then nearby offsets if the grave cannot be placed there.
• Supports owner-only grave access before decay.
• Supports trusted players through the grave trust design.
• Decayed graves become public and release their contents normally.

Decay and warning state

• Default grave lifetime: 30 minutes.
• The warning state begins 10 seconds before expiry.
• Server owners can change the decay duration in config.

Grave Compass

• Adds a craftable Grave Compass recipe.
• Points players toward their nearest active grave using direction and distance helper text.
• Crafting can be disabled in config.

/back support

• Stores each player's last death location.
• Configurable cooldown, default 60 seconds.
• Includes an admin bypass hook for permission integrations.

Optional webhooks

EchoGrave can send an asynchronous HTTP POST when a player dies. This never blocks the server thread. Payload fields include:

• playerName
• deathCause
• x, y, z
• dimension
• timestamp
• xpAmount

Localization

• English: en_us
• German: de_de

Supported targets

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Minecraft 1.20.4
• Minecraft 1.21.1
• Fabric
• NeoForge

Configuration example

{
  "decaySeconds": 1800,
  "backCooldownSeconds": 60,
  "webhookEnabled": false,
  "webhookUrl": "https://example.invalid/webhook",
  "storeXp": true,
  "graveCompassCraftable": true
}

Building from source

./gradlew build -PmcVersion=1.20.1
./gradlew build -PmcVersion=1.20.4
./gradlew build -PmcVersion=1.21.1
./gradlew buildAllVersions packageDistribution

Generated jars are written to build-output/.