A lightweight Paper plugin that marks death locations with infinite particle beams and dynamic Boss Bar timers for effortless item recovery.
DeathBeacon is a lightweight Minecraft Paper plugin that creates a highly visible particle beam and a dynamic timer at the location of a player's death, making item recovery stress-free and reliable.
In vanilla Minecraft, finding your items after death is often a race against a hidden clock. DeathBeacon removes the guesswork. When a player dies, a particle beam is spawned that reaches the top of the world, and a Boss Bar tracks the despawn timer.
Unlike other plugins, DeathBeacon supports multiple death spots. If you die on your way back to your items, the new death won't overwrite the old one. The Boss Bar will track your most recent death, but all previous beams stay active until the items are recovered or they despawn naturally.
/db set beacon color <color> – Change the color of the particle beam./db set bar color <color> – Change the color of the Boss Bar./db set duration <seconds> – Adjust the despawn timer length./db clear <player> – (Admin) Manually remove all active beacons for a player./db reload – Reload the configuration.DeathBeacon is a server-side plugin. Simply drop it in your plugins folder and restart your server. No client installation is necessary.
DeathBeacon is designed for Paper 1.21+. While it is highly optimized, having dozens of active beacons simultaneously may impact client-side FPS depending on the player's hardware. Admins can use the /db clear command to manage excessive beacons if necessary.