Graves
What happens to your items when you die.
Overview
HellHold uses vanilla death rules — keepInventory is off, so you drop your items when you die. But instead of scattering them across the ground (or into lava), everything is gathered into a grave at the spot where you died, powered by AxGraves.
Recovering your stuff
- Head back to where you died. The grave shows as a player-head marker with a floating label.
- Walk over it to instantly pick everything up, or right-click it to open it and take what you want.
You get back all of your items and all of your XP.
Not sure where you died? Check your death message in chat — it usually tells you roughly where it happened.
See How Graves Work for the finer details (timers, XP, and more).
How Graves Work
A few useful details about how graves behave on HellHold.
What a grave keeps
- All your items — armour, hotbar, inventory and off-hand.
- All your XP — you get 100% of your experience back, not the vanilla fraction.
When you collect a grave, your armour is even re-equipped automatically so you are ready to go again.
How long it lasts
A grave stays for 20 minutes before it despawns. That is plenty of time for most trips, but do not dawdle on a long trek back.
If a grave does time out, its contents drop on the ground at that spot rather than vanishing instantly — but they then follow normal item rules and will despawn, so treat 20 minutes as your real deadline.
Collecting it
- Walk over the grave for an instant pickup, or
- Right-click it to open it and take items out one at a time.
Good to know
- Graves work in the Overworld, Nether and End.
- Graves are not locked to you — get back promptly, as another player who reaches it first could pick it up.
The golden rule: when you die, drop what you are doing and go get your grave. 20 minutes goes faster than you think.