Tophat's Death Swap

A highly-customizable Death Swap datapack.

🕹 Installation

Death Swap can be installed multiple ways. The simplest is through Modrinth, while Github can offer experimental versions.

Modrinth

1. Download the correct version of the datapack
2. Follow this guide to complete installation

Github

Releases

1. Navigate to Github Releases
2. Find the version of Death Swap you want
3. In Assets, find and click the zip that has the version of Minecraft you're playing on
4. Follow this guide to complete installation

Continuous Updates

1. Install Git
2. Open a terminal in your datapacks folder (follow step 4 in Releases if you need help)
3. In the terminal, enter git clone https://github.com/Team-NPM/Tophats-Death-Swap.git
4. In the terminal, enter git checkout $(VERSION), replacing $(VERSION) with the datapack version you want (run git branch -l to see all branches)
5. If the datapack ever updates, open a terminal in your datapacks folder and run git pull to update it quickly!

🎛 Running

To configure Death Swap, run /function config:deathswap or /function deathswap:.config to open the configuration menu. To begin a game, run /function deathswap:.begin.

• PVP
Whether or not players can directly damage each other during a game
• Enderpearls
Prevent ender pearl usage by removing them entirely or after 4 seconds (or not at all)
• Reset Advancements
Whether or not players will have all their advancements revoked at the beginning of a round
• Grace Period
If enabled, the first swap happens after twice the amount of maximum swap time. Allows players to get kitted out to avoid low-effort drop or lava traps
• Timer View
Whether or not players can see how long until the next swap. Vague tells players whether it's longer than a minute, less than a minute, or less than 10 seconds until a swap
• Time Between Swaps
The minimum and maximum amount of time between swaps. Will randomize between these 2 values after each swap
• Minimum Distance Between Players
How many blocks each player must be away from each other at minimum. Prevents players from running into each other
• Maximum Spread Distance
The maximum amount of blocks away from 0 0 a player can be teleported
• Uninstall Datapack
A button that removes all datapack data from the world and gives instructions on how to finish cleanup

🖫 Updating

Due to the nature of this datapack, if you wish to update it, completely delete the world you were in and follow the install instructions again.

🗑 Uninstalling

If you wish to continue using a world after playing with this datapack, uninstall the datapack. To uninstall the datapack, either enter the config and click the uninstall button, run /function uninstall:deathswap, or run /function deathswap:uninstall. Doing any of these options will remove all data from the world. Make sure to disable it afterwords.

🖇 Compatibility

This datapack will be incompatible with anything that uses Minecraft's team system. It also clears all players inventories and removes any items on the ground. Due to the nature of this datapack, this is intentional and will not be fixed.

🖂 Reporting Issues

Have a problem? Report it! There are 2 ways to report issues.

Github Issues

Head to https://github.com/Team-NPM/Tophats-Death-Swap/issues and create an issue. You can also make suggestions there as well!

Discord

Join the Discord and make a bug report in the correct channel. Once it's seen, a Github Issue will be created and linked.