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LifestealSMP 🔪❤️

LifestealSMP is a highly configurable and fully featured Lifesteal plugin designed for modern Minecraft SMP servers.
It offers a complete hearts-based survival system, revive mechanics, advanced crafting, multi-language support, and full administrative control.

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🔧 Core Features

• ✅ Heart System: Fully configurable heart loss and gain based on deaths, PvP, or environment.
• ✅ Heart Items: Withdraw hearts into physical items that can be traded or consumed.
• ✅ Heart Tiers: 5 tiers of heart items allow restoring from +1 up to +5 hearts.
• ✅ Custom Crafting Recipes: Create your own crafting recipes for heart items and revive beacon.
• ✅ Revive System: Revive banned players using special Revive Beacons via a chat-based confirmation system.
• ✅ Rare Revive Beacon Recipe: Uses expensive materials like Netherite Blocks, Nether Stars, Wither Skulls, Enchanted Golden Apples & Totems.
• ✅ Ban System: Players get automatically banned upon reaching 0 hearts.
• ✅ Admin Control: Powerful /lifestealadmin system with full server control.
• ✅ Command Hiding: Commands are hidden dynamically for players without permission.
• ✅ Database Support: MySQL and SQLite database options for scalable player data.
• ✅ Multi-Language Support: Fully translatable through external language files.
• ✅ Configuration Reloading: Reload configuration and language files live using /reloadlifesteal.
• ✅ Safe Bukkit API Design: Compatible with Bukkit, Spigot, Paper & Purpur.
• ✅ Recipe viewer: Players can explore available recipes through an interactive inventory GUI.
• ✅ Revenge system: The Revenge Thread system gives defeated players an opportunity to retaliate.
• ✅ Anti-farming protection system: Prevent players from repeatedly farming one another for hearts.

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🎯 Commands

Main Commands:

Command	Description	Permission
/withdrawheart	Withdraw one heart into a physical item	lifesteal.withdraw
/withdrawheart <amount>	Withdraw multiple hearts in one command	lifesteal.withdraw
/recipeview	Open the recipe overview	lifesteal.recipeview
/recipeview heart	Browse heart crafting recipes	lifesteal.recipeview
/recipeview heart <tier>	View a specific heart-tier recipe	lifesteal.recipeview
/recipeview beacon	View the Revive Beacon recipe	lifesteal.recipeview
/recipeview all	Open the complete recipe overview	lifesteal.recipeview
/reloadlifesteal	Reload plugin configuration and language data	lifesteal.reload

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Admin Subcommands (/lifestealadmin)

Subcommand	Description
set <player> <amount>	Set hearts
add <player> <amount>	Add hearts
remove <player> <amount>	Remove hearts
giveheart <player> [tier] [amount]	Give heart items (Tier 1-5)
revivebeacon <player>	Give Revive Beacon
unban <player>	Unban player
purgebans	Unban everyone
setmax <amount>	Set maximum hearts
resetall	Reset hearts for all players
banlist	List all banned players
reload	Reload config & language

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🎯 Permissions

Permission	Description	Default
lifesteal.admin	Grants access to Lifesteal administrative commands	OP
lifesteal.reload	Allows plugin configuration and language reloads	OP
lifesteal.withdraw	Allows players to withdraw hearts into items	true
lifesteal.revive	Allows players to activate Revive Beacons	true
lifesteal.recipeview	Allows access to the recipe viewer	true
lifesteal.bypasslimit	Bypasses selected gameplay-limit checks without violating the hard heart-storage cap	OP

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🔁 PlaceholderAPI Support

LifestealSMP includes built-in PlaceholderAPI expansion for dynamic integration with scoreboards, tab lists, nametags, holograms, and other placeholder-compatible systems. You can display player-specific data across your server in real-time.

Placeholder	Description
%lifesteal_hearts%	Shows the player’s current heart count. Returns an empty value when the player’s heart data is unavailable.
%lifesteal_hearts_left%	Shows how many additional hearts the player can gain before reaching the configured maximum.
%lifesteal_max_hearts%	Returns the configured maximum heart count.
%lifesteal_starting_hearts%	Returns the configured starting heart count for new players.
%lifesteal_online_count%	Displays the current number of online players.
%lifesteal_database_connected%	Returns "true" or "false" depending on whether the configured database backend is connected.
%lifesteal_database_type%	Displays the active database backend, such as "mysql" or "sqlite".
%lifesteal_language%	Displays the currently active language code, such as "en", "de", or "es".
%lifesteal_prefix%	Inserts the plugin’s configured and color-formatted message prefix.
%lifesteal_online%	Returns "true" or "false" depending on whether the requested player is currently online.
%lifesteal_banned%	Returns "true" or "false" depending on whether the player is Lifesteal-banned.
%lifesteal_ban_reason%	Displays the player’s Lifesteal ban reason when available.
%lifesteal_revenge_active%	Returns "yes" or "no" depending on whether the player currently has an active Revenge Thread.
%lifesteal_revenge_target%	Displays the username of the player’s current Revenge Thread target. Returns an empty value when no target exists.
%lifesteal_revenge_time_left%	Displays the remaining Revenge Thread duration in a readable format, such as "2m 14s".
%lifesteal_revenge_time_left_seconds%	Returns the remaining Revenge Thread duration as a whole number of seconds.
%lifesteal_revenge_progress%	Returns the Revenge Thread progress as a percentage from 0 to 100.

These placeholders allow server owners and developers to deeply customize their user experience, creating rich, dynamic interfaces that reflect each player's lifesteal status in real-time.

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🚀 Supported Platforms

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• ✅ Bukkit 26.2+
• ✅ Spigot 26.2+
• ✅ Paper 26.2+
• ✅ Purpur 26.2+
• ✅ MySQL & SQLite Databases

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🔒 No NMS - No Version Lock

• 100% version-independent.
• No use of NMS, reflections, or unsafe internal APIs.
• Fully safe for future Minecraft versions.

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⚙ Planned Expansions

• ✅ Economy integration
• ✅ Custom revive options
• ✅ More heart tier recipes
• ✅ Crafting recipe GUI configuration
• ✅ Expanded admin control panels

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🔥 Perfect For:

• ✅ Survival servers
• ✅ Hardcore SMP
• ✅ Lifesteal communities
• ✅ Private or public SMP servers
• ✅ Large network environments

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LifestealSMP delivers a full Lifesteal SMP experience while remaining fully scalable, safe, and professional for any Minecraft server.

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Made with ❤️ by MidnightZone

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