Talk:Death messages

For whoever thinks that in 1.16 there is a death message called "[player] swam in lava", this death message only exists in UK English.--ManosSef (talk) 18:50, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Since this move does not affect many pages and is not controversial at all (as not many people care about death messages) should I just move it? ManosSef (talk) 06:12, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

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 Oppose This page is just a plain list of them.  Nixinova   T   C   20:34, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

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 Oppose per Nixinova – the article is primarily a list and there isn't significant info (nor can there be) on what a death message is. –Sonicwave ^talk 20:36, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

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 Comment Just to clarify: it was not my idea to move the page. ManosSef (talk) 06:11, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

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 Oppose This page is, although just a plain list, necessary to be on the wiki. There is a lot of significant info to do with bugs, removed features etc. SileGdPro (talk) 11:58, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Okay since most people disagree with the move, I am removing the template from the top of the page. ManosSef (talk) 09:07, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

I have just found a way to get the generic fell while climbing death message without the use of datapacks, and I don't know if I need confirmation to add that on the death message's description so I am asking here. If you are wondering it involves falling off any block with the climbable tag, then changing dimensions before taking fall damage. --Misterredeminator1111111 (talk) 07:35, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

I will test that when I find the time and if it happens to me as well, I will add that to the page. --ManosSef (talk) 09:27, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Nope, doesn't work. --ManosSef (talk) 14:01, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

I've got it to work, best way to replicate it is to set a end portal and then falling, as that teleports you instantly. – Unavailablehoax (talk) 16:42, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

I know I'm late, but I actually managed to make it work. I am adding it to the page right now. --ManosSef (talk) 19:19, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

i have clear memories of seeing this in LAN worlds back in the era of ~1.5 to ~1.7, can someone smarter than me verify if it's actually always been unused or simply has been removed?

Look at the history section. I have clearly written that it used to work in the 1.5-1.7 era, but stopped working in some version around there.--ManosSef (talk) 09:00, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

I was just looking into this and these death messages are definitely referenced by code, but the code looks broken and the branches that would generate these are never going to be hit the way it's written. So I am wondering if these should be moved from the 'not referenced in code' section to the one above it for correctness. - AD OffKilter (talk) 05:36, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

I'll do it right now. ManosSef (talk) 19:17, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

I can actually say that if it was unused, it isn't now. I was going up a ladder with low health, a zombie hit me, and I fell to my death. The death message was, you guessed it, "doomed to fall by zombie", and it happened again a few times in a testing world. It happens when something hits you and then you fall to your death from the knockback. I'm pretty sure I was in 1.19 or one of its minor updates. ThatOneWolf ^{(talk|contribs)} 10:51, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Like the one from death.attack.witherSkull.item, instead of "death.attack.witherSkull.item," we could say, "<player> was shot by a skull from <player/mob> using <item>". Or take death.attack.sting.item. Instead of "death.attack.sing.item," we could say, "<player> was stung to death using <item>".

No worries, just a suggestion. Or I could ask Mojang Studios to translate them into the above translated messages.

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These are not the translations used in-game. This wiki only documents the game's content and not community suggestions. ManosSef (talk) 08:10, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

It says that "<player> was doomed to fall" is not obtainable in vanilla Minecraft. Well, it is when you die of fall damage inside flowing lava. I'm too lazy to edit, so I'll just let y'all know. – Unsigned comment added by 88.216.48.70 (talk) at 19:41, 17 August 2022‎ (UTC). Sign comments with ~~~~

Do not use Forge and then think something works in vanilla just because it works with Forge. Try something in vanilla before coming here to spread false information. ManosSef (talk) 07:52, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

I think this could do with a less accusatory tone especially considering the OP didn't explicitly mention they were using Forge and is probably not trying to spread false information on purpose. However, it is true that this message appears on Forge but not in vanilla (last I checked which was a few versions ago). –Sonicwave ^talk 18:06, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

You're right. I wasn't meaning to insult anyone, and if I did, I apologize. ManosSef (talk) 18:47, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

The move to "You Died" was not the result of a consensus and I believe it should be reverted. There are 3 reasons for that:

• 1) This page documents death messages and not the death screen. Death messages and the death screen are two completely unrelated things, and the fact that death messages appear on the death screen is a pure coincidence, as it wasn't always like that.
• 2) "You Died" is not the official name of the death screen. In the code, this screen is referenced as "DeathScreen". Just because "You Died!" is the text that appears at the top of the screen doesn't mean that is the screen's name.
• 3) The death screen isn't as big of a feature in Minecraft as to deserve a dedicated page for it. All the info there is to say about it is documented on Health, and to be frank, whoever moved the page to "You Died" didn't actually include any info about the death screen, other than just a few useless lines at the top.

To whoever moved this page to "You Died", please don't make big changes to a page's name before asking in the talk page first. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. ManosSef (talk) 22:38, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

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 Agree to revert the page to its original title. BDJP ^(t|c) 01:51, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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 Support. I admit that it was impulsive of me to make that move without pondering that it may not have been a good idea as I had initially believed.Drour1234 (talk) 03:38, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

I think this is a useful link MC-260877 to add --Shuddery (talk) 00:11, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

This death message is actually possible in vanilla. You can use the steps in MC-265270 but if you don't want to use the datapack you can use these steps completely in survival:

1) Play on multiplayer

2) Write 2 books filled with speech marks (all 100 pages)

3) Place these 2 books spread apart (unstacked) in a shulker box

4) Rename the shulker box

5) Produce a death message holding the shulker box

I also have a video on this but I don't know the rules on that -- Shuddery (talk) 18:28, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

The bug where wolves could die by a snow golem has been resolved, so the entry about ([wolf] was pummeled....)should be removed or be given a "fixed in 24w06a" Luccioelias (talk) 22:03, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Added a note about it being until Java 1.20.5, the entry will be removed once the update is fully released. Thanks for bringing it up!--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 00:06, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Angle brackets are used in some contexts, but I feel like square brackets are more commonly used for text subsitutions. Usually, square brackets are used to substitute text in citations. Here on the wiki, we actually use curly brackets for text subsitutions, as in:

{{template_name|param 1|param 2|param_name=param value}}
{{namespace:page name to translude}}

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The general standard I've seen suggest that angle brackets are for required substitutions and square brackets are for optional things.

The angle bracket "<" should be marked up as < to avoid it being interpreted as the start of an HTML tag. Similarly the square bracket "[" should be marked up as [ to avoid it being interpreted by the Wiki software as the beginning of an external link.

Single curly braces "{" and "}" are safe to use if not adjacent to a vertical bar "|".

Double curly braces are always templates and other transclusions, and double square brackets are internal wikilinks. ~Anachronist (talk) 21:27, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I have seen, in videos, a death message that says "<player> swam in lava" instead of "<player> tried to swim in lava." An earlier topic here claims that it is a UK English thing, but I changed the language to UK English and it still says "tried to swim in lava." And yes, I tried it in the same update as the video was in (1.17.1). TurkeyCookTime (talk) 18:32, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Translation files are downloaded separately from the game, and can be updated even months after the release of a version. I checked the activity history on Crowdin, the website used for Java translations, and it seems that the UK English "translation" was indeed changed from "swam in lava" to "tried to swim in lava" on November 14, 2021. The translation files must have been updated after that date, retroactively applying to 1.17.1 as well.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 19:03, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

In the trivia section, I noticed that it says "Death messages obtained through PvE means are generally grammatically incorrect due to the lack of a preceding "a" before the name of the killer." This is true I guess, but I would argue that the name of the killer is a proper noun, as hovering over it displays its UUID, which each one of the mob would be unique. I wouldn't change it yet though, because UUIDs are very subtle. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 09:22, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

The name displayed, however, is not a proper noun, regardless of what hovering does (and I am not certain but I suspect this ability to see the UUID isn't a feature in Bedrock Edition, which is what most people play). It's a common noun like "zombie" or "skeleton". The only way it would be a proper noun is if the player named the mob with a name tag before being killed by that mob. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:49, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Okay, then. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 02:39, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Maybe these could also be added? I was just mining and heard mob noises from a cave above me. One of the messages was "Something dies on a block". 2001:7D0:81DC:3680:C9B:2A99:CB2E:B5B7 14:10, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

"Something dies on a block" is not a string that can appear anywhere in the vanilla game. There is a subtitle that reads "Something falls on a block", but that's not a death message, nor does it necessarily appear on a mob's death. ManosSef (talk) 22:51, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

I didn't check all of the edits from the IP user that were recently reverted, but it appears the edit for firework rockets was correct. The game code file that contains most of the game text (en_us.json) has a death message for death.attack.fireworks.player, which would render as "<player> went off with a bang while fighting <mob/player>". Might check some of their other edits later. Version I checked was JE 1.21.11. Rampage455 (talk) 04:50, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Oh okay, thanks. I'll also test them in-game. Could you see if you can get death.attack.fireworks.player in-game? ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 05:41, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

I can verify that death.attack.thorns.item does exist. ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 07:15, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

@Rampage455 The other messages appear fine and display in-game, and I can confirm that the JSON does have death.attack.fireworks.player, but I could not get that one to display, using /damage. I tried /damage @s 19 minecraft:mob_attack by [UUID] followed by /damage @s 100 minecraft:fireworks by [UUID] with a pillager as the mob, but the normal death.attack.fireworks shows. Using the same setup but giving the pillager a named stick and death.attack.fireworks.item correctly shows. ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 07:59, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

death.attack.fireworks.player was removed from being a death message (even though the string was kept in en_us.json) in 1.16, when fireworks became an entity damage type instead. When /damage was added, it became possible to get it again, but because /damage fakes the damage types it causes, it's still considered "unsendable". You can see it's listed in Death_messages#Full_list,_including_unsendable_death_messages as unsendable. ManosSef (talk) 13:35, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Oh, thanks for the clarification. Then it should stay as is since it's not obtainable through normal gameplay. ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 13:36, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Honestly, I tried searching for a death message by a spear on this website. This page does not have that new spear death message. The spear was added in 1.21.11, and I would like to see a spear death message be shown. TroopGLitch29Again (talk) 23:40, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Update: I found it. TroopGLitch29Again (talk) 23:45, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

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