Kindred

Find your friends. Forget the fuss.

Kindred makes adventuring with friends easy! Keep track of your teammates with a compact, customizable HUD showing health, mana, status effects, and more. Manage your party with a single /p command, without complicated setup or unnecessary clutter.

Lightweight, flexible, and designed to play well with other mods.

Features

Party Management: Create, invite, join, and leave parties through /p. No designated leader. Parties disband when the last member leaves.

Live Party HUD: Displays health, mana, status effects, and directional tracking with elevation indicators. Each player can reposition their HUD, with positions saved between sessions.

Party Colors — NEW! Choose from 12 unique colors, one per party member. Selections are saved per party and persist through disconnects and server restarts until the player leaves.

Live Invitations — NEW! Incoming and outgoing invitations display countdowns, Accept and Decline controls, and automatic status updates.

Decline Cooldown — NEW! Configurable protection against repeat invitations after a decline. Defaults to 10 seconds; 0 disables it.

Improved Party Menu — NEW! Compact when solo, expanded when grouped. Party membership and invitations synchronize automatically.

Shared XP (Optional): Splits experience equally among nearby party members. XP requires RPG Leveling.

Friendly Fire Protection: Prevents damage between party members when enabled.

Better Together: Optional Man Down! integration adds downed indicators and a live bleed-out countdown. Death indicators work without Man Down!.

Public Party API — NEW! Allows other mods to integrate with Kindred's party system.

Configuration

Kindred automatically generates kindred.properties with customizable server settings.

# Party
maxPartySize=8 (Recommended)
friendlyFire=false

# Experience Sharing (requires RPG Leveling)
sharedXp=true
sharedXpMode=SPLIT or FULL
sharedXpRange=50.0

# Party HUD
hudEnabled=true
hudRefreshSeconds=1
directionArrows=true
showSelfOnHud=false

# Invitations
inviteExpirySeconds=60
inviteResendCooldownSeconds=30
maxPendingInvitesPerPlayer=5
nativeInviteNotification=true

XP Sharing: sharedXp enables or disables sharing. sharedXpMode=SPLIT divides XP equally among eligible party members within sharedXpRange blocks (default 50). RPG Leveling is required for XP sharing only.

Decline Cooldown: Defaults to 10 seconds and can be disabled by setting its configuration value to 0.

Permissions

All features are available by default. Administrators can optionally restrict access using:

kindred.deny.open
kindred.deny.invite
kindred.deny.join

Compatibility

Hytale: 0.7.0+

RPG Leveling: Optional, required for XP sharing.

Man Down! v0.2.0+: Optional, enables downed indicators and bleed-out countdowns.

Neither integration is required for Kindred's core party features.

Better together. Adventure your way.