OpsCraft Lifesteal

A clean, modern take on the classic lifesteal mechanic. Built for Paper 1.21+ with full MiniMessage support, sensible defaults, and zero external dependencies.

Free forever. A Pro version with premium features (heart items, /withdraw, revive book, PAPI, Discord webhook) is planned.

Features (v0.1.0)

• Kill a player → gain a heart — configurable amount, capped at max
• Die → lose a heart — configurable, works with any death cause or PvP-only filter
• Hit 0 hearts → eliminated — pick your mode: kick (rejoins get silently kicked, no chat spam) or spectator
• Permanent by default — no auto-unban; admins bring players back manually (or via v0.2's /lifesteal reset)
• Persistent — hearts survive reconnects and server restarts (uses PDC, no external DB)
• Grace period for new players so they aren't instantly farmed
• World whitelist / blacklist / all-worlds — flexible multi-world support
• PvP-only filter — optionally only lose hearts to player kills, not fall damage
• Full MiniMessage support in all in-game text (gradients, hover, click, colors)
• Every string customizable — 100% of messages live in config.yml
• Silent rejoin handling — an eliminated player who rejoins gets silently kicked with no join/leave/elim broadcast
• Zero dependencies — no PAPI, no Vault, no external anything required

Installation

1. Drop OpsCraftLifesteal-0.1.0.jar into your Paper plugins/ folder
2. Restart your server
3. Edit plugins/OpsCraftLifesteal/config.yml to taste
4. Restart to apply

That's it. No permissions setup, no external database, no dependencies.

Requirements

• Paper 1.21+ (tested on Paper 26.1.2 build 72)
• Java 21+ (Paper 26.1+ requires Java 25 runtime)
• No other plugins required

Config preview

hearts:
  default: 10
  minimum: 0
  maximum: 20
  gain-on-kill: 1
  lose-on-death: 1

grace-period:
  enabled: true
  seconds: 3600

elimination:
  mode: kick         # kick | spectator (elimination is permanent)

messages:
  lose-heart: "<red>You lost a heart. <gray>You now have <current>!"
  gain-heart: "<green>You stole a heart from <victim>! <gray>You now have <current>!"

Full config with all options ships with the plugin.