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❤ CUSTOM HEART RECIPES

Craft hearts your way.

Since v2.4.0, you can create fully custom crafting recipes for hearts
and execute custom commands as events, giving you extreme customizability.

Grant potion effects, crate keys, money, and anything else you can imagine.

Competitive Survival Mode. Made with ❤ by zArrowTan, part of the ArrowBoi Series.

Overview

zLifeSteal brings a competitive heart-stealing mechanic to your Minecraft server. When a player dies they lose hearts, and the killer steals them to grow stronger. Run out of hearts and you face exile through spectator mode or a temporary ban.

With a built-in revive system, custom hearts, crafting recipes, a beacon shop, PlaceholderAPI support, and deep configuration, zLifeSteal creates an intense survival experience that keeps players fighting for every heart. Best of all, it runs with zero required dependencies straight out of the box.

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❤ Heart Stealing Mechanics

Players lose hearts when killed and drop physical heart items
Killers gain hearts by right-clicking dropped hearts to consume them
Golden Hearts: rare drops from last-life kills that grant 2 hearts instead of 1
Fire-Resistant Hearts: optional fire resistance for Hearts and Golden Hearts, so they survive lava instead of despawning
Fully configurable min, max, starting, and per-death hearts, including whether natural (non-PvP) deaths cost hearts
Same-IP protection to prevent heart farming

✖ Zero-Heart Consequences

Spectator Exile: eliminated players enter spectator mode for a configurable duration, with a respawn timer and firework celebration
Temporary Ban: ban for a set time, supporting seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years
Restrictions: exiled players cannot chat or use commands
Automatic unban and return with server-wide broadcast announcements

⚡ Revive System

Craft or purchase Revive Beacons to bring eliminated players back
Interactive GUI to choose which player to revive
Configurable cooldown system to prevent spam
Revived players return with a configurable number of hearts
Fireworks and sounds celebrate every revival

🛠 Crafting Recipes

Custom heart crafting recipe with fully configurable materials and shape
Revive Beacon crafting (Netherite, Beacon, and Obsidian by default)
Toggle any recipe on or off in the config
Preview recipes in-game with /ls recipe

🧩 Custom Hearts

Create your own consumable hearts, each with a unique ID, that run custom commands when consumed
Grant potion effects, crate keys, money, or anything else you can script
Fully configurable and creatable by server owners, each with its own crafting recipe
Hand them out with /ls give <player> custom <heart_id> <amount>

🛍 Beacon Shop

Buy Revive Beacons using your hearts via /ls shop
Custom GUI with glowing items and flexible lore
Configurable costs and item appearances
Configurable full-inventory handling: deny the purchase with a notice, or drop the item on the ground

⚙ Advanced Customization

Full Hex Color Support: use &#FF5555 or <#FF5555> in all messages, item names, and lores
Auto-Config Update: new config values are added automatically while preserving your settings
Customizable hearts, golden hearts, and beacon items (material, name, lore, glow)
Per-player data storage with a YAML database
Optional player head drops on death with a configurable chance

📊 PlaceholderAPI Support

Use these placeholders anywhere PlaceholderAPI is supported, including scoreboards, tab, and menus:

%lifesteal_hearts% current heart count
%lifesteal_max_hearts% maximum heart count
%lifesteal_revives% total revive count

Pick how hearts display with the hearts-out-of-20 option: a 20/19/18 style or a 10.0/9.5/9.0 style.

⭐ Why Choose zLifeSteal?

Zero Required Dependencies: works straight out of the box (PlaceholderAPI optional)
Performance Optimized: lightweight, async, with efficient data handling
Hex Color Support: modern RGB for stunning visuals
Auto Config Updates: new features integrate without breaking your config
Extensive Customization: every message, item, and mechanic is configurable
Active Development: frequent updates and fixes
Professional Code: clean, documented, and maintainable

🔗 Commands & Permissions

Player Commands

/ls help
Show all available commands
/ls check <player>
View a player's hearts or ban status
/ls stats
View lifesteal statistics
/ls shop
Open the Beacon Shop
/ls recipe
View the crafting recipes
/ls withdraw <amount>
Withdraw hearts as physical items

Admin Commands

/ls give <player> <amount>
Give hearts to a player
/ls give <player> custom <heart_id> <amount>
Give a custom heart to a player
/ls take <player> <amount>
Remove hearts from a player
/ls set <player> <amount>
Set a player's exact heart count
/ls ban <player>
Ban a player through the lifesteal system
/ls revive <player>
Revive a player without using a beacon
/ls giveitem <player> <type> <amount>
Give heart, golden heart, or beacon items
/ls reload
Reload all configurations

Permissions

lifesteal.admin (Default: OP)
Access to all admin commands
lifesteal.user (Default: True)
Access to basic user commands
lifesteal.stats (Default: True)
Access to the /ls stats command

⚙️ Configuration Preview

Spoiler: config.yml

YAML

# Core Mechanics
core:
  check-same-ip: true
  hearts-lost-per-death: 1.0
  max-hearts: 40.0
  initial-hearts: 10.0
  hearts-on-revive: 10.0
  drop-physical-heart: true
  zero-heart-action: "spectator" # Options: "ban", "spectator", "none"

# Heart Display
display:
  hearts-out-of-20: false # true = 20/19/18, false = 10.0/9.5/9.0

# Golden Heart Configuration
golden-heart-item:
  material: "GOLD_NUGGET"
  name: "&#FFD700Golden Heart"
  glow: true
  hearts-to-give: 2.0

# Ban System
zero-heart-options:
  ban-mode:
    enabled: true
    ban-duration: "1h" # Format: 1s, 10m, 1h, 7d, 4w, 6M, 1y

# Revive System
revive:
  revive-cooldown-enabled: true
  revive-cooldown-time: 3600 # 1 hour in seconds
  revive-beacon-cost: 3.0

# And much more...

Spoiler: guiconfig.yml - Full GUI Customization

YAML

# Customize every GUI element including:
- Shop GUI (title, size, items, decorations)
- Recipe GUI (heart and beacon recipes display)
- Revive GUI (title, player head display, background)
- Support for hex colors in all GUI text

📥 Installation

Download zLifeSteal.jar
Place it in your plugins/ folder
Restart your server
Configure config.yml and guiconfig.yml to your liking
Run /ls reload to apply changes

📋 Requirements

Minecraft Version: 1.17+ (works on 1.17 through 1.21.x)
Server Software: Spigot or Paper (Paper recommended for performance)
Java Version: Java 17 or higher
PlaceholderAPI: optional, required only for placeholder support

🖼 Screenshots

Spoiler: In-Game Screenshots

Beacon Shop GUI

Revive Player GUI

Recipe Viewer

🆕 Recent Updates

PlaceholderAPI Support (v2.4.2 - v2.4.3)
Added %lifesteal_hearts%, %lifesteal_max_hearts%, and %lifesteal_revives% placeholders, plus a hearts-out-of-20 display toggle.

Custom Hearts & Command Events (v2.4.0)
Build fully custom crafting recipes and consumable custom hearts that run commands when used. Grant potion effects, crate keys, money, or anything else you can script.

Fire-Resistant Hearts (v2.2)
Hearts and Golden Hearts can now survive lava instead of despawning.

Consume Effects & Pop Animation (v2.5.x)
Configurable particle bursts and sounds on consume, plus a custom pop animation that shows your heart's actual texture in front of the player.

Smarter Config Handling
Auto config migration carries your settings forward across updates and self-heals older config files.

📈 Metrics

This plugin uses bStats to collect anonymous usage stats. You can opt out anytime in plugins/bStats/config.yml.

💬 Support & Links

Need help? Join the Discord: Click here to join
Found a bug? Report it on the Discord server
Feature requests? Always listening to community feedback

⭐ If you enjoy this plugin, please leave a review! ⭐
Made with ❤ by zArrowTan

Latest Reviews

5.0

2 reviews · 2 from BuiltByBit

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scrimix

Feb 8, 2026 · BuiltByBit

best lifesteal plugin out there for sure the owner is always on constantly to support you and fixed problems with in one day

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MasterStudios

Feb 5, 2026 · BuiltByBit

zLifeSteal is an incredibly polished and well-designed lifesteal plugin. The heart-stealing mechanic feels balanced and rewarding, and features like golden hearts, revives, and exile add real stakes to PvP without making it frustrating. Setup is easy, performance is solid, and the customization options are perfect for shaping the plugin to fit any Lifesteal SMP. If you want a high-quality, competitive lifesteal experience that players actually enjoy, this plugin delivers. Highly recommended

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zLifesteal Core | Premium Lifesteal

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