Minecraft wiki entry for Tricks_and_Traps, associated text: This may seem obvious but placing beds regularly to reset your respawn point is critical. This allows you respawn in the vicinity of the runner over and over no matter how many times you die. You may not have any loot, (unless you have that chest or another hunter carrying extras) but at least you won't respawn half a world away from the hunter. Be sure your bed is out of reach or properly hidden from the runner. If it's destroyed your respawn point will be set back to world-spawn and not the previous bed you placed, possibly leaving you hundreds or thousands of blocks away.