About

Postmortem provides customizable death messages to specific player groups. It can give server admins immediate information about where and in what world a played died in, which has a variety of applications. Since the messages can be set to not display for regular users, it can also have applications in PvP servers.

Installation

Simply drop the .jar into your plugins folder and reload the server. The plugin will automatically generate a default configuration file.

Usage

If a player with the postmortem.notify permission is killed by another player, a message will be sent to all players with the postmortem.receive permission. By default, it looks like this:

<victim's name> was killed by <killer's name> at <coordinates> in <world>!

Deaths from non-player causes are also broadcasted, but take a slightly different form:

<victim's name> was killed at <coordinates> in <world>!

These can be customized by modifying the config.yml file generated during the plugin's first load.here are currently four tags: {VICTIM}, {KILLER}, {LOCATION}, and {WORLD}. As more tags are developed and implemented, they will be used in a similar manner. Furthermore, chat colors can be used via the & symbol.

As an example, the default config looks like so:

playerFormat: "&2{VICTIM} has been killed by {KILLER} at {LOCATION} in {WORLD}!" nonPlayerFormat: "&2{VICTIM} has been killed at {LOCATION} in {WORLD}!"

Commands

There are currently no commands.

Permissions

postmortem.notify: Sends a Postmortem death message upon death
postmorten.receive: Receives Postmortem death messages

Planned Features

{PVP} tag to indicate if the victim was fighting the killer
{WEAPON} tag that gives the name of the killer's weapon
{HEALTH} tag to indicate the killer's remaining health
{RANGE} tag for the distance of ranged kills
{VKILLS} tag for the number of kills the victim made before dying
{KKILLS} tag for the number of kills the killer made before dying
{STREAK} tag for how many times in a row the
Detection of player-placed lava kills
Multiple permission nodes for different detail levels

Source

The plugin's source is available under the MIT license here.

(This plugin was written to fulfull a request on the Bukkit Forums)