How to Keep Your Inventory on Death

By default, dying drops a player’s entire inventory and held XP at the death location, where it despawns after 5 minutes if nobody picks it up. The keepinventory gamerule turns that off — players respawn with their inventory and XP intact, and nothing drops.

Enabling It

bash
gamerule keepinventory true

Run that from the panel’s Terminal tab — no / needed. In-game it’s /gamerule keepinventory true, and needs operator permission. You’ll see:

text
[INFO] Game rule keepinventory has been updated to true

This applies to every player on the server — vanilla Bedrock has no per-player toggle.

Note
This also stops experience orbs from dropping on death, not just items.

Pairing With Immediate Respawn

Even with cheats off, death still shows the “You Died” screen with a respawn button to click through. To skip straight back into the world instead, add:

bash
gamerule doimmediaterespawn true
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