🕯️ The Concept

Items despawning on the floor is a tragedy. Epitaph replaces loot drops with a physical gravestone built at the exact location of death. Each grave stores the player's items safely in a locked chest, carves their last chat message in stone, and records the full context of their passing — creating an organic, ever-growing graveyard wherever battles occur.

✨ Features

🪦 Physical Graves A stone structure with the player's head is automatically built at death. Graves hold all the player's items and XP (converted to bottles) in a locked chest — only the owner can open it.

💬 Last Words If the player typed anything in chat within the last 60 seconds before dying, it's automatically engraved on their grave as their last words.

🌿 Decay System Graves age over time through four states: Fresh → Ancient → Ruin → Gone. Each stage changes the grave's appearance. Configure exactly how long each stage lasts — or disable decay entirely.

📍 Grave Finder Lost track of where you died? /grave find points you toward your active grave — no more wandering.

📖 Death Records Every death is logged permanently. Use /grave list to browse the server's full death history, or /grave history <player> to look up a specific player's past deaths. Generate a physical Book of the Dead with /grave book <player>.

📊 Server Stats /grave stats displays server-wide death statistics — most dangerous locations, most common causes, total graves spawned.

🏛️ Cemetery (Optional) Define an official cemetery with /grave cemetery-set. Graves can be automatically relocated there, organized in rows, with passive epitaph messages shown to players who walk nearby.

🔗 CivCraft Suite Integration

Epitaph enriches every grave with context from the other plugins of the suite — automatically, with no configuration needed.

All integrations are soft dependencies — Epitaph works perfectly with none of them installed.

💻 Commands

All commands are also available as /grave and /graves.

🔑 Permissions

⚙️ Configuration Highlights

epitaph:
  chest_expiry_hours: 48       # How long items stay in the grave
  last_words_window_seconds: 60 # Chat window captured for last words
  proximity_radius: 18          # Blocks before proximity alert triggers

degradation:
  fresh_hours: 24
  ancient_hours: 168            # 7 days
  ruin_hours: 720               # 30 days
  auto_delete: false            # Graves never fully disappear by default