Nemesis: Rivals That Hunt You 1.0.0

Kill a player and an ordinary zombie doesn't just wander off - it gets promoted.

It's given a name and a title (Grishnak the Cruel), boosted stats, a glowing outline, immunity to sunlight, and it's marked never to despawn. It hunts its victim, and you get an action-bar warning when it's closing in. Kill you again? It levels up, gains new abilities, and earns a nastier title.

Hunt it down and kill it, and you claim revenge loot, a named trophy, and a server-wide announcement of your victory. The grudge is settled... until something else kills you.

One nemesis per player at a time, so the rivalry stays personal.

1. Lv.1 - Named, glowing, fireproof, persistent
2. Lv.2 - Faster and more aggressive
3. Lv.3 - Resistance, knockback resistance, iron helmet
4. Lv.4 - Regeneration, Strength, iron sword
5. Lv.5 - Full diamond kit and a personalised title

Stats scale from each mob's own natural values, so a nemesis skeleton and a nemesis ravager both feel fair rather than one being absurd. Slay yours for revenge loot, XP, and a trophy.



Every part of it is yours to tune in config.yml:

1. Promotion chance and max level (add ranks past 5, stats keep scaling)
2. Which mobs are eligible
3. Stat curves for health, damage and speed, with a hard speed cap
4. Per-level potion effects, armour and weapons
5. Revenge rewards: drops, XP and the trophy item
6. Every message the plugin sends

/nemesis info     your current nemesis: name, level, type, last seen
/nemesis locate   where it was last seen and how far away
/nemesis list     (admin) every active nemesis
/nemesis reload   (admin) reload config

Permissions: nemesis.use (default: all), nemesis.admin (default: op)



Spigot & Paper 1.20.6 - 1.21.x · Java 21+ · No dependencies.
Verified in-game on 1.20.6, 1.21.1, 1.21.4 and 1.21.11.

Install: drop the jar in /plugins and restart. A config.yml generates on first run.