Death & recovery

Death on Sunday Market has weight, but isn't ruinous. You drop your inventory, you take a small coin penalty, you respawn at home or spawn. A recovery chest spawns at the death spot to hold your inventory for a window of 5–60 minutes (scaled by rank). Recover the chest, you're back in business.

This page covers the death side of combat — what dies, what survives, how to come back.

What happens when you die

1. Damage drops you to 0 HP
2. Your inventory (hotbar, main inventory, armor, off-hand, pack contents) is captured
3. A recovery chest spawns at the death location, locked to you
4. You take a small coin penalty (with a 30-second cooldown so a single bad fight doesn't drain you)
5. You respawn — at your bed (vanilla rule, if intact and accessible) or at spawn
6. You see a death message in chat

What dies vs what survives

The headline: ender chest, vaults, and Soulbound items survive. Everything else is in the recovery chest, on a timer.

The recovery flow

Detailed on Recovery chests. Quick summary:

The window scales by rank, from 5 minutes at Visitor up to 60 minutes at Legend. You can have multiple active chests (3 at Visitor, 10 at Legend) — die multiple times before recovering and only the oldest expires early.

Where you respawn

• Slept in a bed recently — you respawn at the bed (vanilla rule)
• No bed, or bed broken/blocked — you respawn at world spawn

The bed mechanic is the only respawn anchor. Travel itself is in-world (runes, sign teleporters, Nether portals) — see Travel.

Practical death recovery

Solo death (e.g., creeper while mining)

1. Respawn at your bed (or spawn if no bed)
2. /aclist to see where the chest is
3. /actp to teleport back
4. Loot the chest
5. Click a Strange Block to return to base — or walk

5-minute round trip if you're on top of it.

Bad fight death

1. Respawn at your bed (or spawn)
2. Heal up (eat, regen)
3. Re-equip backup gear from your ender chest or vault
4. Decide: fight back or take the L
5. If fighting back: /actp to recover, then engage
6. If taking the L: /actp later when it's safe

Stuck in a loop death (e.g., respawning into the trap that killed you)

1. Drink a Rune Potion (if you carry one ignited at base) to escape — or /suicide and re-respawn somewhere different
2. Catch your breath
3. Plan recovery from a safe location
4. /acfetch (pull to your current spot) instead of /actp (teleport back into the trap)

Multiple recent deaths

/aclist shows all of them. Recover the most-recent first (most loot is usually there). The older chests' contents may already have expired or be near-expiry.

When recovery fails

Cases where you might not get your stuff back:

• You waited too long — past the window, contents released or despawned
• Multiple deaths over the cap — the oldest chest's contents released early to make room
• You died in a place you can't safely return (deep void, etc.) — /acfetch to pull to safe location instead

Most players never lose loot to the recovery system. The window is generous; the commands are easy.

Why death has any weight at all

The system could be keep-inventory (vanilla flag) — death drops nothing, no penalty. We chose not to because:

• Death without weight is meaningless — vanilla design assumes death has a cost
• Coin penalty is minor — the small loss reminds you "that was a death" without ruining your wallet
• Recovery chest is generous — the worst-case 5-minute window is enough for most situations
• Ender chest + vaults + Soulbound — top gear stays safe regardless

This is the "death has weight, not punishment" balance. Mistakes cost something. Actual loss is rare.

Coin penalty details

• -5 coins per death (the standard penalty)
• 30-second cooldown ⏱30s (no spamming the penalty if you die multiple times rapidly)
• The penalty respects your balance — won't drop you below 0

For most players, the death penalty is barely noticeable. It's a soft reminder, not a punishment.

Mob deaths vs PvP deaths

The mechanics are identical. Whether you died to a creeper or a player, the recovery chest spawns the same way, the penalty is the same, the respawn process is the same.

The killer rewards differ:

• Mob killed you → no reward to anyone (you just died)
• Player killed you → killer gets +2 coins (with their per-victim cooldown ⏱10m)

See also

• Recovery chests (storage side) — the storage perspective
• Combat — combat mechanics overview
• PvP — PvP-specific combat
• Pack — what pack carries (also drops on death)
• Ender chest — what survives death