Death messages

Death messages are messages shown on the death screen and sent in the chat to either all players or a specific player to announce the death of a player or pet. These messages communicate how the entity died, and some are intended to be humorous. Some death messages are harder to get than others, and are therefore sought after by players.

Upon the death of a player, a death message is broadcast to everyone on a server. Upon the death of a pet wolf, cat, parrot, nautilus or zombie nautilus the message is broadcast to the pet's owner in Java Edition or to all players in the world in Bedrock Edition.[1] In Bedrock Edition, death messages are also produced upon the death of a pet horse, zombie horse, donkey, mule, llama, or trader llama.[2]

In Java Edition, death messages are automatically recorded in the game's logs. The death of a villager or a renamed mob is recorded in the game's logs, but not broadcast in chat.