Today, Just now, I was killed by a skeleton while i was walking around and Towny said that I lost $1, and i thought "Not bad, not too hard to replace" but when i did /back, i picked up everything except my emeralds! there was only 1 block and one single emerald. I had 289 emeralds to begin with. Could they have despawned or was it Towny that's the culprit?

Wait, how much did you have and how much did you pick up? $1 means you lost 1 emerald.

So he lost 179 emeralds according to him. If it really took all that something is messed up, tbh i dont think it should be taking anything when you die.

There's also the strange possibility that they could have despawned, but that shouldn't have happened because I got all my other stuff back, and correction, i lost 279 emeralds as i had 289 to begin with, I may have made a typo when I was talking to you Jimmy

After some testing it does seem to take most all your emeralds drom your inventory. For some strange unknown reason, its not calculating death cost correctly.

Any rate, the problem has been fixed, its set to not take anything on death now.