Death System

Death in Eroded World is punishing, but not random deletion. The system creates a protected recovery objective.

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Death Chest

When a player dies, their inventory is stored in a Death Chest (eroded:death_ender_chest). The chest uses owner-based protection and can remain protected for a configurable time.

Default fixed protection fallback:

"protectionTicks": 6000

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Distance-based protection

Protection can scale with death distance:

• minMinutes: 3
• maxMinutes: 20
• minutesPerBlock: 0.01
• useSpawnIfNoBed: true

This means distant deaths can remain protected longer.

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Hologram

The death point can display a floating hologram with owner and protection information. Hologram animation settings include rotation speed, bobbing speed and bobbing amplitude.

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Return Compass

The Return Compass (eroded:death_compass) guides the player back to their last death memory. On use, it can whisper remaining protection time and coordinates.

The compass also has stress and heartbeat behavior controlled by death.json.

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Recovery advice

• Recover energy before returning.
• Bring light if the death was underground.
• Use the compass to confirm time and location.
• Do not assume another player can access your remains while protection is active.

See Death & Soul Recovery Config.