Paper and Folia · 1.21.1+

AlphaGraves

Grave management that never loses a player's items. Up to four permission-gated grave slots, physical PvP and fallback graves, auto-claim, reminders and fully custom holograms.

Install it How graves work

4Default grave slots

3Grave types

8Permission nodes

8PlaceholderAPI placeholders

What you get

Death protection that never loses a player's items, and that stays out of the way until a player dies.

Grave slots

Up to four independent, permission-gated slots per player, each with its own claim delay, reuse cooldown and optional claim cost.

Mechanics

PvP graves

A direct melee kill skips the slot system. A physical, lootable grave spawns at the death location instead.

Mechanics

Fallback graves

When every slot is on cooldown, a physical grave spawns so items are never simply lost to a full queue.

Mechanics

Claim costs

Charge XP levels or Vault money to claim a grave. One code path covers slot, PvP and fallback graves.

Claim costs

Auto-claim and reminders

Opt-in automatic item return the moment a grave becomes claimable, plus a one-time chat reminder.

Mechanics

Holograms and markers

Floating grave markers with custom skull textures, unlimited hologram lines, and a view range so distant graves cost nothing.

Visuals

Safe storage

A grave that cannot be decoded is never deleted or charged for, and corrupt player files are kept for recovery.

Safe storage

Per-world control

Turn graves off in specific worlds, or keep the slot system and disable physical graves elsewhere.

Configuration

Folia ready

Declares Folia support and runs auto-claim on each player's own region thread.

Installation

Quick start

From the jar to working graves in a few minutes.

Install and start. Drop the jar in plugins/ and start the server. On a new server the plugin stays off until AlphaStudio approves it, see Server approval.
Review the slots. Open config.yml and adjust the four default grave-slots entries: claim delay, reuse cooldown, permission and cost.
Decide on physical graves. pvp-grave and fallback-grave are both on by default. See Mechanics → PvP grave.
Make it yours. Edit grave-hologram.lines and lang/messages.yml. Both reload with /agraves reload.
Check it in game. Run /agraves menu to open the admin GUI.

Requirements

Plugin	Required?	Unlocks
None	Always works	The full grave system: slots, PvP graves, fallback graves, auto-claim, holograms and GUIs.
`PlaceholderAPI`	Optional	Registers `%alphagraves_*%` placeholders for scoreboards, menus and TAB plugins.
`Vault`	Optional	Needed only if a `claim_cost.type` is `money`. Without it, money-cost claims are denied.