💀 DeathPenalty (Community Edition)

DeathPenalty is a powerful, lightweight, and fully-featured death punishment and economy penalty plugin designed for modern Minecraft servers.

The Community Edition is 100% free, fully functional for public servers, and comes with no annoying ads, no paywalls on essential features, and zero artificial limits!

🌟 Standard (Free) Features Included

• 🌐 Dynamic Per-Player Multi-Language (10 Languages) Players can cycle their own preferred language in real-time via /dp info. Out of the box: 🇺🇸 English, 🇮🇩 Indonesian, 🇨🇳 Chinese, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇮🇹 Italian, 🇸🇦 Arabic, 🇩🇪 German, 🇫🇷 French, and 🇷🇺 Russian.
• ⚡ Native Folia & PaperMC Multi-Threading Built for modern server performance. Zero tick-lag, thread-safe asynchronous database queries, and full Folia region compatibility.
• 💰 Economy Penalty & Physical Cash Drops Deduct a flat fee or percentage of Vault balance upon death. Supports dropping physical money items with custom heads/models for players to scavenge.
• 📊 EXP Level Drop Modifier Accurate vanilla EXP calculations. Fully operational on both keepInventory: true and false servers.
• 🍎 Attribute Debuffs (Health, Food & Saturation) Temporarily penalize respawning players with reduced health, hunger, or saturation with auto-restoration timers and configurable safety limits.
• 🎒 Random Inventory Item Drops Configure percentage chances to drop random items on death, with full Soulbound item protection (items tagged as Soulbound will never drop).
• 👻 Revenant Mob Spawning Spawn a hostile corrupted mob (ghost/revenant) at the death location to guard the player's lost items.
• 🧰 100% In-Game GUI Editor & Native Chat Input Configure all options via /dp config. Edit values using native chat prompts—no crash-prone AnvilGUIs or manual file editing needed!
• 🗄️ Dual Database Support (SQLite & HikariCP MySQL) Includes a built-in one-click database converter (/dp convert or via GUI).
• 🛡️ WorldGuard 7 & PlaceholderAPI Integration Custom region flag (death-penalty: deny) to disable penalties in safe zones/spawn, plus dozens of PAPI placeholders for scoreboards and menus.

💎 Free vs. Premium Edition Comparison

Want to take your server's death mechanics to an RPG-tier level? Check out what's included in the Free Edition versus the upcoming Premium (Pro Edition):

💡 The Free Edition provides a rock-solid, complete death penalty experience for any survival SMP. The Premium Edition expands this into a full economy sink and RPG survival mechanic.

⌨️ Commands & Permissions (Free Edition)

Player Commands:

• /dp info — View your death penalty status, active debuffs, and cycle language.
• /dp deaths — Open your death history log (Permission: deathpenalty.deaths).

Admin Commands:

• /dp config — Open the main interactive in-game configuration menu (Permission: deathpenalty.admin).
• /dp reload — Reload config files and database connections (Permission: deathpenalty.admin).
• /dp convert — Convert SQLite database to MySQL (Permission: deathpenalty.admin).

🧩 Dependencies & Compatibility

• Minecraft Version: 1.20.x – 26.2.x
• Server Software: Paper, Purpur, or Folia
• Java: Java 21 or Java 25+
• Dependencies:
  • Vault + Economy plugin (EssentialsX, etc.) (Recommended)
  • PlaceholderAPI (Optional)
  • WorldGuard 7 (Optional)

🚀 Quick Setup

1. Download the DeathPenalty .jar file.
2. Put the .jar into your server's plugins/ directory.
3. Restart your server.
4. Run /dp config in-game (as an OP) to customize your penalty rates and settings!