Lifesteal Plugin

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.

🔧 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.

🎯 Commands

Main Commands:

Command · Description · Permission
/withdrawheart · Withdraw one heart into a physical item · lifesteal.withdraw
/withdrawheart · 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 · 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

Admin Subcommands (/lifestealadmin)

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

🎯 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

🔁 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.

🚀 Supported Platforms

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

🔒 No NMS - No Version Lock

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

⚙ Planned Expansions

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

🔥 Perfect For:

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

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

Made with ❤️ by MidnightZone