Exile Pearl

Exile Pearl is a player-imprisonment system in which a defeated player is bound to an ender pearl and confined to the Nether. The confinement ends when the pearl is destroyed or its fuel expires.

Creation

Combat damage applies a tag lasting 60 seconds from the most recent hit. If the tagged player dies, the highest-damage eligible attacker receives the exile pearl, provided that the attacker is online and carries a blank ender pearl in the hotbar or offhand. The resulting item displays the imprisoned player’s name and its remaining fuel.

Confinement

A pearled player cannot use a Nether portal to reach the Overworld. On death or forced placement in the Nether, the player respawns within 1,250 blocks of the Nether origin unless a charged respawn anchor has been set in the dimension.

The pearled player receives a tracker represented by a lodestone compass. It updates every 30 seconds and points toward the pearl’s location. If the pearl is in the Overworld, the tracker converts its horizontal coordinates to the corresponding Nether location by dividing them by eight.

Fuel

New exile pearls contain eight hours of fuel. Fuel decreases by one hour for every real hour and may hold no more than 48 hours. Crafting the pearl with one Player Essence restores it to the 48-hour maximum. The player is released when the remaining duration reaches zero or when the pearl is destroyed.

Exile pearls cannot be stored in ender chests. They are often kept within vault bastions, which restrict unauthorized pearls, teleports, block placement, and other access methods.