Tovek Lifesteal

Kill, steal, survive. Tovek Lifesteal gives you the classic Lifesteal SMP game. Every kill takes a heart from the victim and gives it to the killer. Players who lose all their hearts are out. Part of the free Tovek plugins by Toprak Eker.

Features

• Heart stealing: killing a player moves one heart (2 max health) from the victim to you.
• If the killer is already at the heart limit, or the death has no player killer, the heart drops as an item instead.
• Heart items that you can hold. Right-click to use one and gain a heart. Item material and custom model data can be changed.
• /withdrawheart [amount] turns your own hearts into items (you cannot go below the minimum).
• Craftable heart: a shaped recipe of 4 Netherite Ingots, 4 Totems of Undying and a Nether Star.
• Elimination at zero hearts: switch to Spectator mode or ban the player (elimination-action), with a server message and a title on screen.
• Eliminated players stay eliminated after they rejoin or respawn. Admins can revive players.
• Heart limits and defaults: default-hearts 10, min-hearts 1, max-hearts 20 (highest allowed is 512).
• All messages use MiniMessage and can be changed.

Commands

| Command | Aliases | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| /withdrawheart [amount] | /withdraw, /heartwithdraw | Turn hearts into items |
| /lifesteal reload | /ls | Reload config and recipe (admin) |
| /lifesteal give <player> [amount] | | Give heart items (admin) |
| /lifesteal set <player> <hearts> | | Set a player's hearts (admin) |
| /lifesteal revive <player> | | Revive an eliminated player at world spawn with default hearts (admin) |

Permissions

| Permission | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| lifesteal.admin | op | Use all /lifesteal subcommands |

/withdrawheart and heart items need no permission.

Requirements

• Paper or Purpur 1.20.1 to 26.3
• Java 21 or newer (Paper 26.x needs Java 25)
• No other plugins needed

Installation

1. Put the jar in plugins.
2. Start the server to create plugins/TovekLifesteal/config.yml.
3. Choose elimination-action (SPECTATOR or BAN) and your heart limits.
4. Run /lifesteal reload.