Replace the player corpse with a rock

[sudojunior]

When a player dies from the death event, create a rock at their position with all of their items.

Further on this, the rock has to be mined by the player to return the items, and it takes a long time to mine it.

@ThatTallSteve

Emphasis that this would be intended as an opt-in function, and mutually exclusive to any feature that effects the death behaviour.

[sudojunior]

Having a look at Seablock for reference of creating a 'rock-chest', created entities could be marked as 'enemy' to force the player to mine it as described above, but turrets may also target it - so 'neutral' would be best if it works as intended without turrets focusing on it.

https://github.com/modded-factorio/SeaBlock/blob/b2f5261/SeaBlock/control.lua#L12-L32

https://github.com/modded-factorio/SeaBlock/blob/b2f5261/SeaBlock/prototypes/rockchest.lua#L10-L15

[sudojunior]

Only getting worse from here, the corpse can also be replaced with a worm, biter spawner or spitter spawner - with the intention to 'defend' it from the player.