LifestealCore 2026.07

What you can do

Set your server’s heart rules

• Set, add, and remove hearts, eliminate players, and revive them through admin commands.
• Configure total hearts, starting hearts, and hearts after an unban.
• Choose worlds where death does not cost hearts, and worlds where death immediately eliminates a player.
• Set permission-based heart loss and player-specific heart caps; for example, a group can have five additional hearts.
• Customize heart-loss penalties for mobs and environmental deaths, or disable those penalties. Examples include losing two hearts to a Blaze or drowning, and three to a Ghast or fall damage.

Create restorative heart items

• Define heart tiers, the number of hearts each grants, usage cooldowns, and random drop chances after a player kill. Configure them in the hearts section of items.yml.
• Choose whether a player kill applies hearts directly or drops them as an item.

Trade hearts for temporary buffs

• Create sacrificial items, shown as scrolls by default, that consume a chosen number of hearts and grant temporary potion effects.
• Configure these items in the effecthearts section of items.yml.

Bring players back with revive beacons

• Create beacon tiers with custom revive times, durability, cooldowns, particles, and holograms in the Beacons section of items.yml.
• Define a custom command that lets players assign a beacon to a player of their choice.
• Show the player being revived, time remaining, and durability in a live hologram.
• Broadcast the location of placed beacons, or make a beacon silent.

Customize items and player tools

• Create multiple tiers of beacons, hearts, and effect hearts. Configure names, lore, materials, custom skulls, models, flags, glow, and recipes. Recipes require Minecraft 1.18+.
• Give players a personal lifesteal menu, separate from the admin menu, with commands such as check to view another player’s status and revive to bring a player back at the cost of hearts.
• Set permission-based ban durations, including shorter durations for selected groups.

Control repeated-kill exploits

• Prevent heart stealing or drops when both players share an IP address, or when the same player is killed again within a configured interval.

Resource pack

A free resource pack includes textures for all default items, including three heart textures and three scroll textures. Join Discord and verify as a buyer to access it. Install the pack to see custom textures in-game. It is supplied for Java clients on the version targeted by the pack; Bedrock and older versions require your own port. Recipe support starts at Minecraft 1.18.

See it in action

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Make it yours

• Configurations update automatically with new plugin versions.
• Customize chat messages, actionbars, and titles, including optional chat auto-centering and RGB colors.
• Customize sounds for commands and events, including power and pitch.
• Use any PlaceholderAPI placeholder in plugin messages.
• Plugin placeholders are available for messages and custom commands.

Configuration files

• Default configuration
• Default messages
• Default items

Integrations & addons

Supported combat integrations: CombatLogX, DeluxeCombat, and PvPManager. Contact support if you need to check another plugin.

Players can also convert hearts into physical notes with DeluxeWithdraw.

For developers

GitHub API

Compatibility & support

Supported server versions: 1.8.8–26.3.
Confirmed server software: Spigot, Paper, and Purpur. Other forks may or may not work.
Folia: Supported as of version 2025.08.
Server software with client-side mods is not supported.

Always use the latest available server release. Issues arising from outdated server software are not guaranteed to be resolved.

Please consult the documentation before asking questions or reporting an issue. Join Norska Development on Discord for support.