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Gumdum Gravesite

Player guide to Gumdum Gravesite chest-and-marker recovery, owner protections, Hardcore boundaries, and Alpha reliability.

Last updated Aug 9, 2026 by Repository Import

🪦 Gumdum Gravesite

Gumdum Gravesite is the SMP death-recovery add-on for non-Hardcore survival worlds.

When safe placement is possible, it creates a local grave record, places a vanilla chest for storage, and places a visible Gravesite marker above or near the chest.

💀 Your inventory did not disappear. It merely checked into a very small hotel.

What Happens After Death

In a supported non-Hardcore survival world, Gravesite attempts to:

  1. Create an active local grave record
  2. Place a vanilla chest near the death location
  3. Place gumdum:gravesite_marker above or near the chest
  4. Move the player inventory into the chest when Bedrock exposes it safely
  5. Show the owner’s active grave in the Realm Book

If the custom marker cannot be placed, the add-on may use polished blackstone bricks as a fallback marker.

📖 Finding Your Grave

Open:

Gumdum Realm Book
→ Gumdum Add-Ons
→ Gumdum Gravesite

The player path shows active graves owned by that player. Grave details may include:

  • Coordinates
  • Dimension
  • Chest status
  • Marker status
  • Death time or tick
  • Storage status
  • Compass-style location hints

Normal players do not receive a teleport-to-grave button.

🔐 Owner-Only Recovery

Only the grave owner may normally:

  • Open the grave chest
  • Break the grave
  • Claim stored items

When the owner claims the grave, Gravesite attempts to return stored chest items when inventory space permits, removes the chest and marker, and archives the grave record.

Archived admin grave details are read-only and do not provide owner-bypass recovery.

⚠️ Recovery Reliability

Current Alpha item capture is best-effort.

Bedrock may clear or hide the player inventory before the script can safely read it. In that case, Gravesite may still create:

  • The grave record
  • Chest
  • Marker
  • Coordinates
  • Troubleshooting status

But stored item recovery may be unavailable.

🧪 A chest appearing proves the chest appeared. It does not automatically prove your enchanted pickaxe moved into it. Minecraft testing has layers, much like an onion wearing diamond armor.

☠️ Hardcore Boundary

Gravesite intentionally does nothing for Hardcore death recovery.

Hardcore Behavior Result
Grave record for recovery No
Chest placement No
Saved items No
Marker placement No
Teleport to death location No
Recovery behavior No

Hardcore admin views redact coordinates, dimensions, marker hints, and teleport access. The documented message is:

Cannot View: Hardcore ghosts don’t get map pins.

🧰 Admin Posture

Admin tools focus on active graves by default, with separate troubleshooting for archived, missing, or Hardcore records.

Current hardening keeps archived grave details read-only and prevents archive teleport or owner-bypass recovery.

Local-First Safety

Gravesite does not require:

  • Website access
  • API uptime
  • Discord
  • DNS
  • Database services
  • Paid recovery

There is no public grave directory and no public grave looting.

Validation Status

Current repository source documents chest-and-marker behavior, owner-only recovery, archived record handling, and Hardcore no-op protections. Fresh-world Bedrock validation remains the authority for actual gameplay behavior.

Build and doctor checks do not prove:

  • Minecraft import
  • Death interception
  • Inventory capture
  • Chest placement
  • Marker placement
  • Owner recovery
  • Hardcore no-op behavior