Gravestone

Gravestones are generated when a player dies via any means except in the wilderness, safe activities (whereby no items are lost, hence rendering a gravestone useless) or at the corporeal beast. Players must also have dropped at least one item upon death in order to receive a gravestone. All of the player's items are kept safe under the gravestone until it is destroyed. This can occur either due to the gravestone's timer expiring or demolition by the player. Some items cannot be recovered from a gravestone, such as those listed here. If a gravestone collapses fully before a player retrieves his or her items, the items will become visible and can be picked up by anyone.

Without repairs or blessing, a gravestone will collapse after a certain period of time, depending on the type of gravestone purchased. One minute before collapse a gravestone will become broken, and 30 seconds prior to collapse it will become a collapsing gravestone. Although a gravestone will remain intact if the player logs out or loses connection, the timer will continue to count down and the gravestone will collapse at its regular time. Gravestones can last from 5 to 15 minutes, depending on the type purchased. The time remaining before the collapse of a player's gravestone will be displayed on their screen if they have a gravestone active. Once a type of gravestone has been selected and/or purchased, the player will continue to use that type of gravestone until they choose to change it. 60 seconds after a gravestone collapses on its own (without blessing, repair, or demolition) the items not picked up by the player disappear. Once a gravestone has expired any items that have yet to be retrieved can be seen and picked up by other players. When items appear to other players under the same conditions is currently untested.

A player's gravestone is only present in one world. This means that if the game crashes or your internet is down while you try to return to your gravestone, you must return to the world you died in to retrieve your items. If undertaking a dangerous activity it is helpful to know which world you are logged into.

Options
Gravestones have a number of options when right clicked. These options are Read, Repair, Bless and Demolish.
 * Read: Reveals the name of the player who died and, in some cases, how long ago. if a player read their own gravestone, there will be a different message, stating "It looks like it'll survive another X minutes. Isn't there something a bit odd about reading your own gravestone?". If when reading a gravestone the message "The inscription is too unclear to read." is displayed, the player who owns the gravestone has already retrieved their items and no items will appear when the gravestone collapses. This message is also displayed if the player has logged out.
 * Repair: Allows a player to extend the longevity of the gravestone by up to five minutes. There is no known limit to the number of times one gravestone can be repaired, so if nearby players really wanted to they could extend the time of a gravestone indefinitely.
 * Bless: Allows a player with a prayer level of 70+ to extend the longevity of the gravestone by one hour after the gravestone had been set up. Attempting to bless your own gravestone will yield the message "The gods don't seem to approve of people attempting to bless their own gravestones."
 * Demolish: A player can demolish their gravestone to collect the items they dropped on death. When they do so, they will receive a message saying "It looks like it'll survive another X minutes. You demolish it anyway." If a player attempts to demolish another player's gravestone, they will receive the message "It would be impolite to demolish someone else's gravestone."

Types of gravestones
Players can choose a number of different gravestones for use by their character. In addition to having different appearances, some will also last longer before collapsing. Also, when upgrading gravestones, it's not a one time thing that you need to keep paying for. You'll keep getting the upgraded one no matter how many times you die.

Available to all players
These gravestones can be purchased by donating to Father Aereck in the Lumbridge church. You must complete The Restless Ghost in order to purchase gravestones.

Available to Members
The following gravestones can be used by members who have completed the The Giant Dwarf quest as well as any of the specific prerequisites listed next to each gravestone type. The gravestones can be bought from Blasidar in East Keldagrim.

Warning (Possible bug)
As of 22 March 2011, it has been observed that your members' gravestone will be reset to a non-members' gravestone if your membership is terminated. This change appears to be permanent and also applies even if later on your membership is restored.

Players are advised to take note of this if they had terminated a previous membership and are considering purchasing new membership time. Please note this has not yet been proven to be a bug.

Trivia

 * "Requiescat in pace" is Latin for "rest in peace."
 * Demolition of the Gravestone causes items underneath to appear for as long as your grave was blessed for before disappearance, and natural destruction removes the items immediately. Therefore, it may be a good idea to pick up items while the gravestone is still standing, and pick up the most valuable items if a gravestone is about to collapse.
 * A gravestone may not be repaired or blessed if the owner is logged out.
 * Graves of Jagex moderators cannot be repaired or blessed.
 * If you try to drop an item onto your gravestone, there will be a message saying, 'Surely you aren't going to drop litter on your own grave!'. Summoning a familiar while standing on gravestone will yield the same message.
 * In the Demo version of RuneScape, players' names on graves are replaced by "Adventurer."
 * With the 1 February 2011 update, most gravestones had their time doubled or more. Before this update, the default gravestone lasted 3 minutes.
 * The sound played when blessing a gravestone is the same as that of Yt-MejKot and Yt-HurKot healing.
 * Hopping worlds does NOT destroy your grave and it is possible to have two graves in different worlds. However the first gravestone loses the arrow that shows where it is and the timer disappears also. It is unknown if this is a glitch.