# 👻 SoulKeeper ### Your items survive death. So does your progress. SoulKeeper captures your full inventory and experience into a **glowing soul** the instant you die — persisting through lava, fire, and even the void — and waits quietly at the death spot until you return to claim it. ![souls.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Astra-Interactive/SoulKeeper/refs/heads/master/media/souls.png)

--- ## ✨ Inspiration SoulKeeper is the spiritual successor of [DeadSoulsKT](https://github.com/Astra-Interactive/DeadSoulsKT) — rebuilt from scratch with a clean multiplatform architecture, async-first design, and a strong focus on reliability. Where DeadSoulsKT laid the foundation, SoulKeeper brings production-grade persistence, rich visual feedback, and cross-platform support to the same beloved mechanic. --- ## 💀 How Souls Work ### Creating a soul The moment you die, SoulKeeper silently intercepts the death event before anything hits the ground. Your **entire inventory** and a configurable portion of your **dropped XP** are captured and stored in the database as a soul — nothing is scattered across the floor. A burst of red particles and a resonant bell signal that your soul has been born. The soul appears as a shimmering particle cloud with a floating nameplate — **"Soul of \"** — right where you fell. > Souls spawned in The End are clamped to a minimum Y so they can never sink into the void. ### Picking up a soul Just **walk close** — no right-click, no shift, no interaction. As soon as you enter the soul's range, it detects you and begins transferring: | Signal | Meaning | |-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | 🔵 Cyan dust particles | Soul holds XP | | ⚪ White dust particles | Soul holds items | | 🔔 Beacon ambient sound | Soul is nearby — follow the sound | | 🟣 Purple smoke + anvil sound | Inventory full — items still remain | | ✨ Bright flash + extinguish sound | Soul fully collected and gone | Items flow back inventory-slot by inventory-slot. If your inventory is full, **partial pickup** works: XP is absorbed, whatever fits goes in, and the soul persists with only what remains — no items are ever dropped or lost because of a full bag. ### Soul lifecycle ``` Death → [PRIVATE] ──── soul_free_after ────▶ [PUBLIC] ──── soul_fade_after ────▶ [DELETED] │ │ Only owner Any player can collect can collect ``` | State | Who can collect | Default timing | |----------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------------| | 🔒 **Private** | Owner only | Immediately after death | | 🔓 **Public** | Any player | After `soul_free_after` (default: 2 days) | | 💨 **Gone** | — | After `soul_fade_after` (default: 14 days) | Background workers (`FreeSoulWorker`, `DeleteSoulWorker`) run on a configurable tick cadence and advance souls through this lifecycle automatically — no cron jobs, no restarts, no admin action needed. --- ## 🗃️ Krates — Backup Storage Every death also writes a **Krate**: a standalone YAML snapshot of the soul, saved to disk **independently of the database**. ``` plugins/SoulKeeper/ deaths/ / _0.yml ← first krate _1.yml ← second krate (if retry occurred) ... ``` Krates are a last-resort safety net. Even if the SQLite database is lost, corrupted, or rolled back, an admin can restore any dead player's exact inventory from the krate file — **zero database interaction required**. ``` /soulkrate

``` This reads the matching `_.yml` krate file and deposits its items directly into the requesting player's inventory. Use it when: - A database failure occurred during a busy session - A player was rolled back by an external tool - Items need to be restored from a specific past death --- ## 🚀 Features ### 🔄 Fully non-blocking Every heavy operation — soul creation, pickup detection, database reads/writes, background worker loops — runs on **Kotlin coroutines** dispatched to background threads via `KotlinDispatchers`. The main game thread is never touched for I/O. ### 🛡️ Safe, explicit failure paths Database operations return `kotlin.Result`. Failures are logged at the call site and skipped gracefully — they never crash the server, silently eat items, or leave souls in a broken state. Concurrent DB writes in `SoulsDaoImpl`, the pickup loop in `PickUpWorker`, and death event handling in `ForgeSoulEvents`/`BukkitSoulEvents` are each guarded by their own `Mutex`. ### 📦 Krate safety net A file-based snapshot is written on every death independently of the database. Items cannot be lost in a catastrophic DB failure. ### 🎨 Fully customizable effects Every particle (type, color, size, count) and every sound (ID, volume, pitch) is independently configurable per event type. Six sound cues, five particle effects — all tweakable without touching code. ### ⏳ Configurable soul lifecycle `soul_free_after` and `soul_fade_after` are plain duration values. Set them to seconds, minutes, hours, or days. Background services poll reactively from a config `Flow` — changes reload live without a restart. ### 📈 Partial pickup If your inventory is full when you reach a soul, XP is collected first, then as many items as fit go in. The soul survives with the remainder. Walk back once you have space — nothing is ever force-dropped. ### 🏷️ Virtual floating name tags Floating armor-stand nameplates ("Soul of \") are sent as **virtual entities via PacketEvents** on Bukkit — no real entities are spawned into the world, so performance is unaffected regardless of soul count. ### 🔔 Proximity soul calling A `SoulCallWorker` tracks every online player's position. When a player enters `soul_call_radius` blocks of a soul they can collect, ambient sounds and particles begin pulsing — guiding them back even in complete darkness or deep underground. ### 🌍 End dimension safety Souls spawned in The End are clamped to `endLocationLimitY` so they never fall below the island floor and become unreachable. ### 📑 Paginated soul browser `/souls` lists all visible souls with owner name, coordinates, age (formatted as "X days ago"), and item/XP indicators. Admins see clickable **[FREE]** and **[TP]** buttons inline. 5 souls per page; prev/next navigation included. ### 🗄️ Versioned database migrations `DatabaseMigrator` carries all schema migration steps. Upgrading the plugin never requires manual SQL — migrations run automatically on startup. --- ## ⚙️ Configuration All settings live in `config.yml` inside the plugin data folder and are hot-reloadable via `/skreload`. ```yaml # Database file path (SQLite) database: ... # Soul becomes publicly collectible after this duration soul_free_after: 2d # Soul disappears permanently after this duration soul_fade_after: 14d # Radius (blocks) within which a soul emits sounds/particles to guide its owner soul_call_radius: 100 # Fraction of dropped XP stored in the soul (0.0 – 1.0) retained_xp: 1.0 # Minimum Y for souls in The End (prevents void loss) end_location_limit_y: 0.0 # Show floating "Soul of " name tags above souls display_soul_titles: true # How PvP deaths are handled # NONE – PvP deaths create no soul # EXP_ONLY – soul holds XP only # ITEMS_ONLY – soul holds items only # EXP_AND_ITEMS – soul holds everything (same as normal death) pvp_behaviour: NONE ``` ### 🎵 Sounds Every audio cue is independently configurable with `id`, `volume`, and `pitch`: | Key | Default sound | Trigger | |---------------------|----------------------------------|------------------------------| | `collect_xp` | `entity.experience_orb.pickup` | XP absorbed from soul | | `collect_item` | `item.trident.return` | Items absorbed from soul | | `soul_disappear` | `entity.generic.extinguish_fire` | Soul fully collected | | `soul_dropped` | `block.bell.resonate` | Soul created on death | | `soul_calling` | `block.beacon.ambient` | Soul pulsing near owner | | `soul_content_left` | `block.anvil.place` | Inventory full, items remain | ### 🌟 Particles Every particle effect is independently configurable with `key`, `count`, and optional `dust_options` (RGBA color + size): | Key | Default color | Trigger | |---------------------|------------------|----------------------------------| | `soul_items` | White `#FFFFFF` | Soul contains items (continuous) | | `soul_xp` | Cyan `#00FFFF` | Soul contains XP (continuous) | | `soul_created` | Red `#eb3437` | Burst on soul creation | | `soul_gone` | Yellow `#FFFF00` | Burst on full collection | | `soul_content_left` | Purple `#a103fc` | Inventory full warning | --- ## 🛠️ Commands | Command | Description | Permission | |-------------------------------------|------------------------------------|-----------------------| | `/skreload` | Hot-reload config and translations | `soulkeeper.reload` | | `/souls [page]` | List your souls (5 per page) | *(none)* | | `/souls [page]` | List **all** server souls | `soulkeeper.all` | | `/souls` → **\[FREE\]** | Force-free any soul immediately | `soulkeeper.free.all` | | `/souls` → **\[TP\]** | Teleport to a soul's location | `soulkeeper.teleport` | | `/soulkrate ` | Restore items from a krate file | `soulkeeper.load` | --- ## 🌐 Multiplatform SoulKeeper ships a **separate fat-jar** for each supported platform. All core logic — soul lifecycle, pickup detection, database, background workers, commands — lives in shared platform-agnostic modules. Only event wiring and item serialization are platform-specific. | Platform | Jar | Minimum version | |--------------------|---------------------------|-----------------| | **Paper / Spigot** | `soulkeeper-bukkit.jar` | Paper 1.21.1 | | **Forge** | `soulkeeper-forge.jar` | Forge 1.21.1 | | **NeoForge** | `soulkeeper-neoforge.jar` | NeoForge 1.21.1 | Pick the jar for your platform and drop it in — the same soul data, the same commands, the same behaviour everywhere. --- ## 🎬 Preview ### On death — soul created https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ec5f1437-0dab-404f-a4a8-725ee1cd9129 ### Returning — soul collected https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/75f58f92-7d13-4c23-a7fb-b2d89476748b --- ## ⚠️ Known Incompatibilities - Plugins that **cancel or heavily modify `PlayerDeathEvent`** (Bukkit) or the equivalent drop events (Forge/NeoForge) may prevent soul creation. Items may not be captured correctly when those plugins are present. --- ## 🐛 Support 1. Reproduce the issue in a clean environment (no unrelated plugins/mods). 2. Collect the full server log from startup through the issue. 3. [Join our Discord](https://discord.com/invite/8fEzV2TDS2) and open a ticket in `#support`. ## 💡 Feature Requests Open a ticket in `#suggestions` on our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/8fEzV2TDS2) and we'll discuss it before creating a GitHub issue. ---

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