# 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.