LifeSteal

Turn every fight into a battle for survival. LifeSteal is a configurable, server-side heart economy plugin for Minecraft 26.2. Players lose hearts when they die, killers can steal them, and eliminated players can be brought back with a revival item or an administrator command.

Features

• Configurable starting, minimum, and maximum hearts
• Separate heart gain and loss values
• Optional heart loss from non-player deaths
• Anti-farming cooldown for repeated kills
• Kick, spectator, or no action when a player is eliminated
• Craftable Life Hearts and Revival Cores
• Recipe browser and eliminated-player revival menu
• Heart withdrawal as physical items
• SQLite persistence with asynchronous writes and WAL mode
• Automatic migration from the legacy players.yml format
• English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Turkish, and Italian translations
• Editable message files with automatic English fallback
• Folia-aware entity scheduling
• No required client-side mods

Compatibility

Software	Support
Minecraft	26.2
Java	25 or newer
Paper	Supported
Purpur	Supported
Folia	Supported
Bukkit / Spigot	Designed for compatible 26.2 builds

The plugin is completely server-side. Players can join with an unmodified Minecraft client.

Installation

1. Download the latest LifeSteal JAR.
2. Place it in your server's plugins directory.
3. Restart the server.
4. Edit plugins/LifeSteal/config.yml.
5. Run /lifesteal reload after making changes.

Commands

Command	Description	Permission
/lifesteal hearts [player]	Display a player's hearts	lifesteal.use
/lifesteal recipes	Open the crafting menu	lifesteal.use
/withdraw [amount]	Convert hearts into items	lifesteal.withdraw
/lifesteal give <player> <heart|revive> [amount]	Give a custom item	lifesteal.admin
/lifesteal set <player> <amount>	Set a player's hearts	lifesteal.admin
/lifesteal add <player> <amount>	Add hearts	lifesteal.admin
/lifesteal remove <player> <amount>	Remove hearts	lifesteal.admin
/lifesteal revive <player>	Revive an eliminated player	lifesteal.admin
/lifesteal reload	Reload settings, language, and recipes	lifesteal.admin

/ls is available as a shorter alias for /lifesteal.

Configuration and languages

Heart limits, death behavior, elimination mode, items, custom model data, recipes, materials, and anti-farming protection can be changed in config.yml.

Select a language with:

language: en

Available language codes: en, de, es, fr, ru, tr, and it. Language files are created in plugins/LifeSteal/messages/ and can be edited without rebuilding the plugin.

Data storage

Player data is stored in plugins/LifeSteal/players.db. SQLite writes run on a dedicated background thread. If an old players.yml exists when the database is created, its records are imported automatically and the original file is kept as a backup.

Modpack permissions

You may include LifeSteal in public or private server packs when you follow the project license. Please link back to the official project page instead of re-uploading the plugin JAR as a separate project.