Player Corpses, Loot Rules, and Containers

This page covers the normal player-death corpse flow and the settings that change who can open a body.

What happens on player death

At a high level, Dead Body:

• spawns a corpse anchor and visual
• creates the corpse inventory container
• moves the player drops into that container
• keeps the corpse in the world until it is looted, expires, or is cleaned up

Container basics

The main player container settings are:

• container-title-format
• container-size
• displayed held items and armor presentation

The default title format is based on the dead player's name.

Loot access model

The main loot behavior lives under:

interaction:
  loot-access:

Important keys:

• enabled
• admin-bypass-enabled
• owner-always-allowed
• player-corpses-require-permission
• mob-corpses-require-permission

Public-server defaults

By default, Dead Body is friendly to public survival servers:

• corpse looting is enabled
• player corpse looting does not require a permission node
• mob corpse looting does not require a permission node
• the owner can always loot their own body

That means normal non-op players can loot corpses unless you intentionally tighten the rules.

Permission-based loot mode

If you want tighter control, enable the relevant require-permission flags and then use:

• deadbody.loot
• deadbody.loot.player
• deadbody.loot.mob
• deadbody.loot.bypass

Owner and admin behavior

owner access

owner-always-allowed controls whether the dead player can always loot their own corpse even when stricter rules are active.

bypass access

deadbody.loot.bypass works only when admin-bypass-enabled is on.

Interaction timing and cleanup

The interaction surface can also be shaped with:

• open delay
• require grounded before opening
• post-landing delay
• empty auto-remove
• drop items on despawn

Those settings are useful if you want a corpse to feel more physical and less like an instant chest.

WorldGuard note

If players have the right Dead Body permissions but still cannot open a corpse in a protected region, review the WorldGuard notes in integrations and Troubleshooting.

The common problem is region flags, not Dead Body permissions.

Best practice

for public survival

Start with the default open looting model unless you have a specific grief or economy reason to tighten it.

for faction or hardcore servers

Use permission-gated loot and test it with a real non-op account.

for staff testing

Keep one test account with bypass and one without it.

Next pages

• admin Commands and Permissions
• integrations and Troubleshooting