How many lives do you have in Minecraft?

No matter how safe you play, eventually you will die in Minecraft. Maybe a Creeper will sneak up on you and explode, or your character will accidentally tumble into lava; hard to avoid both fates, really. Regardless of how your virtual self met his or her maker, death is inevitable.

This ultimately begs the question, what happens when you die in Minecraft? We’ll break down the different scenarios and the penalties, if any.

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Canon deaths on the Dream SMP

Canon deaths can only happen during important events on the Dream Minecraft SMP ( via Minecraft)

A canon death on the Dream Minecraft SMP takes one of the three lives away from any player. However, canon deaths can only happen during important events. Players might also be resurrected from the dead, but this is yet to happen.

Canon deaths may happen during a war, elections, assassinations, coronations, revolts or violent protests. For example, GeorgeNotFound was assassinated by Technoblade during his coronation, which means his death was a canon death.

Player effects[]

For players, a “You Died!” screen (or “Game Over!” in Hardcore mode) appears, displaying the players score,‌[Java Edition only] and a death message (see Death messages). The view of the world is tinted red, and the camera-view slowly tilts as if falling over, shudders, and zooms in somewhat. In Bedrock Edition, it zooms in indefinitely. Two options appear on that screen:

The death screen is not shown upon death if:

The player holds a Totem of Undying in the main hand or off-hand and died without falling into the void, in which case the player resurrects upon death. Resurrection does not happen if the player fell into the void.

Instant respawn enabled, in which case the player instantly respawns upon death without the death screen appearing, but still showing death message.

Any items and/or blocks that were in the players inventory (except items enchanted with Curse of Vanishing) are dropped from their head, and scattered around the spot where the player died (unless /gamerule keepInventory true is typed in if commands are enabled). Like any dropped item, these drops decay after five minutes while that chunk is loaded.

The player also loses any experience accumulated, reverting the level back to 0 (unless /gamerule keepInventory true is typed in if commands are enabled) and drops experience orbs with a precise total value of player last level × 7 experience points (with a maximum of 100). After reaching between levels 7 and 8, the player always drops only 100 experience points regardless of level.

Despite the fact that dead players disappear like all other mobs, it is still possible for the player to see their own hand while in the first-person mode.[1]

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	adventure/root
Postmortal	Use a Totem of Undying to cheat death	Monster Hunter	Activate a totem of undying by taking fatal damage.	adventure/totem_of_undying

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