DeathLog_By_FeDen

DeathLog - Death History & Item Recovery

Lightweight death history and item recovery plugin for Paper/Spigot servers.

DeathLog is a lightweight admin plugin for Paper/Spigot that stores player death history, displays lost items through a convenient GUI, and allows staff to safely restore lost items.

✨ Features

• Logs player deaths using PlayerDeathEvent
• Death history GUI
• View lost items for each death
• Full ItemStack saving:
  • meta
  • NBT
  • enchantments
  • lore
  • custom item data
• Saves:
  • world
  • coordinates
  • death time
• Detects:
  • death cause
  • killer
  • player / mob / projectile
• Teleport staff to death locations
• Restore items directly through GUI
• Inventory free-space check before restore
• One-time restore protection
• Logs the administrator who restored items
• Removes tracked world drops after restore
• Removes items from players who picked up someone else's death loot
• Removes equipped stolen items from:
  • armor slots
  • offhand
• Removes placed blocks created from death loot
• Attempts block rollback at death location
• Configurable death limit per player with FIFO cleanup
• Player opt-out system for death saving
• EN/RU language support
• Configurable prefix and core settings

📜 Commands

/deathlog

Open your death history.

/deathlog <player>

Open another player's death history.

/deathlog clear

Clear your death history.

/deathlog clear <player>

Clear another player's death history.

/deathlog nosave <deathId>

Used by the opt-out button to remove a saved death.

🔑 Permissions

By default, only OP has access.

deathlog.view

Access your own history.

deathlog.others

View and manage other players' histories.

deathlog.restore

Restore items.

♻️ Restore

Before Restore

• Player must be online
• Free inventory space is checked
• Death must not already be restored

After Restore

• Items are returned to the dead player
• Armor is restored to armor slots if available
• Offhand items are restored to the offhand slot if free
• Inventory items return to original slots if available
• Occupied slots fallback to free inventory space
• Tracked drops are removed from the world
• Picked-up items are removed from other players
• Equipped stolen items are removed from:
  • inventory
  • armor
  • offhand
• Blocks placed from death loot are removed
• Restore administrator is logged

💀 Death Saving

After death, the player receives a chat message:

Death info saved for staff. [Do not save]

Behavior

• If the player does nothing:
  • the death remains saved for staff
• If the player clicks:

[Do not save]

the death record is deleted and hidden from staff.

⚙️ Config

File:

plugins/DeathLog/config.yml

language: "en"
prefix: "&8[&cDeathLog&8] &7"

storage:
  max_deaths_per_player: 10
  date_format: "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss"
  auto_save_on_death: true
  allow_player_opt_out: true

restore:
  require_player_online: true
  check_inventory_space: true
  one_time_restore: true
  remove_world_drops: true
  remove_picked_items: true
  remove_picked_items_on_join: true
  remove_placed_blocks: true
  block_rollback: true
  notify_target: true

tracking:
  dropped_item_search_radius: 4.0
  track_picked_items: true
  track_placed_blocks: true

gui:
  history_size: 54
  details_size: 54
  teleport_slot: 45
  restore_slot: 49
  back_slot: 53

🌍 Languages

Default language:

English

Available Languages

en — English
ru — Русский

Language Files

plugins/DeathLog/lang/en.yml
plugins/DeathLog/lang/ru.yml

Russian Language

language: "ru"

After changing the language, restart the server.

💾 Storage

All deaths are stored in:

plugins/DeathLog/deaths.yml

Saved Data

• Player UUID and nickname
• Death time
• World and coordinates
• Yaw/Pitch
• Death cause
• Killer
• Lost items
• Original item slots
• Tracked drop UUIDs
• Players who picked up items
• Blocks placed using death loot
• Restore status
• Restore administrator and timestamp

📦 Installation

1. Download

DeathLog.jar

2. Move

Place the jar into:

plugins/

3. Restart

Start or restart your server.

4. Configure

Edit:

plugins/DeathLog/config.yml

5. Language

language: "ru"

🧩 Compatibility

Minecraft: 1.20+ / 1.21+
Platform: Paper / Spigot
Java: 17+

🎯 Use Cases

DeathLog is useful for:

• Survival servers
• Grief-control systems
• Staff utility servers
• Hardcore gameplay
• Administrative moderation
• Any server where staff need fast and safe item recovery tools

❤️ DeathLog

Simple. Safe. Staff-friendly death recovery.