betterGraveStones is a Minecraft server plugin (1.21.6+ if you want to use locatorbar tools) that creates protected graves when players die, allowing them to recover their items and experience safely.

It is designed for survival servers that want to reduce unfair item loss from despawn timers, lava, explosions, or unlucky deaths while keeping recovery fair and configurable.

Features

• Creates protected graves on player death
• Safely stores dropped items and configurable experience amounts
• Players can recover their own graves
• Admin tools for listing, inspecting, and managing graves
• Offline player grave lookup with tab-completion
• Configurable messages and world restrictions
• YAML storage with optional MySQL/MariaDB support
• Automatic YAML-to-MySQL migration
• Improved MySQL keep-alive handling
• Optional Locator Bar integration for supported Minecraft/Paper versions
• Optional player colors, UUID gradients, and privacy-focused grave waypoints
• Protected internal marker entities for Locator Bar grave markers

Storage

betterGraveStones supports both YAML file storage and optional MySQL/MariaDB database storage.
If MySQL is enabled later, existing YAML graves can be migrated into the database automatically.

Locator Bar Support

On supported Minecraft/Paper versions, the plugin can optionally use the vanilla Locator Bar for grave waypoints and player waypoint colors.
Grave colors are reserved, such as gray and gold, while player colors avoid those reserved grave marker colors.