Handbook/Locks, graves & recovery
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Locks, graves & recovery

Protect your storage. Know the death rules.

Chest locks protect individual containers; graves help recover eligible deaths. Neither system makes survival risk-free.

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A lock secures its supported container, not the surrounding land.Item image · Minecraft Wiki

Protect and recover your items

  1. 01

    Use /lock and your Lock Key to manage a supported container. Verify its owner and shared access.

  2. 02

    After a death, use the chat’s Teleport to Grave button, or open /grave and choose the grave. Disregard dismisses its reminder while keeping the items recoverable.

  3. 03

    Recover promptly: graves currently expire after 72 hours. If you die during the 2½-minute grave cooldown, items drop normally instead of creating another grave.

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