LastStand

LastStand

Inspired by the last stand perk in CoD; revive your friends before they die!
When you long for those near-impossible mid-battle revivals of your fallen comrades; this plugin attempts to recreate those few moments between life and death wherein a brave friend might be able to save you...

As of 2.1.8, items used to revive someone will be consumed. This can be toggled off with the "items_used_up" config.

Source Code

At github: https://github.com/waffles87/laststand

Features

"Last Stand Mode" (a.k.a. "dying mode")

When your health reaches 0, you will enter "last stand mode", which is a state of "dying". The food bar will slowly run out, and you will die when it expires unless you are revived by another player. Players can revive dying players by right-clicking them.

When you enter last stand mode you:

• Have your health set and stuck at 1/2 a heart.
• Drop whatever item is currently in-hand unless it's configured to be allowed (defaults to swords or bow).
• Do not drop any other items.
• Receive a message saying you are dying.
• Broadcast a server message to all players OR to all *nearby* players saying you are dying.
• Are un-targetted by nearby monsters.
  

In last stand mode you:

• Slowly lose your food bar; when it expires, you die and drop everything normally.
• Cannot take damage or be killed by mobs.
• Your foodbar can now 'take damage' from other players (PvP).
• Your foodbar can also 'take damage' from configurable damage types (e.g. falling).
• Can still attack and break blocks with configurable allowed items.
• Cannot be targeted by monsters.
• Move at a very slow speed.
• Give off smoke, ender pearl effects, and appear to be sneaking.
• Periodically broadcast a server message OR broadcast to nearby players saying you are dying.
• Are affected periodically by spots of blindness.
• Cannot pick up any items. EDIT: this was broken but is fixed as of v2.1.6
• Cannot change items except to configurable allowed items.
• Cannot eat food or consume potions.
• Can be revived by a player right-clicking you.
  

Upon revival you:

• Have health set to a configurable amount.
• Have your impairing effects restored; speed, vision, picking up/using items.
• Do not automatically recover the item you may have dropped.
• Do not automatically recover food points.
  

Disconnecting while dying:

• You immediately drop all of your items for anyone to take.
• A server message will be broadcast telling everyone that you dropped everything.
• Upon re-joining you will be dead and must respawn.
  

Installation

• Put LastStand.jar in your plugins folder and run your server; it will generate the default configs.
• When updating to a new version, delete the config file before running your server so that a new one will be generated.
  
  

Commands

laststand.revive <player> [quiet|silent]
ls.revive - convenience command

• This command will restore a player to normal if they are in LastStand mode (if they are "dying") with full HP and food.
• If you specify "quiet" then the sender will receive a success message but the player will not.
• If you specify "silent" then no success messages will be sent.
• If you specify neither silent nor quiet then the player and the sender will receive a success message.
• The permission for this command is laststand.revive_command and it defaults to op only. It is not included in laststand.*

(The idea behind this command was to give admins a last-ditch way to avoid players being stuck in LastStand mode because of some event incompatibility around the death or spawn events.)

laststand.reload
ls.reload - convenience command

• Reloads the LastStand configs.
  

Permissions

Permissions have been added as of 2.1.0.

• laststand.dying_mode allows a player to survive when they would have died so someone can revive them.
• laststand.revive_other allows a player to revive someone who is dying.

Both of the above default to true.

As of 2.1.4:

• laststand.revive_command allows for the use of the laststand.revive <player> command (see above). It defaults to op only.

As of 2.2.0:

• laststand.reload allows for the use of the laststand.reload. It defaults to op only.
  

Configs

Config file has been added as of 1.1.0; install the plugin in the plugins folder and run your server once, and the plugins/LastStand folder should be generated containing the config.yml. The config file itself includes many comments and is pretty self-explanatory.

The following features are configurable:

• Message text displayed to player and those broadcast to server/nearby players when someone begins dying, periodically while dying, or is revived.
• Above messages can be toggled on and off.
• Dropping of all items if a player disconnects while dying can be toggled off.
• Items you can use while dying (you will also not drop any of these when you first start dying).
• Items required to revive someone.
• new: toggle consumption of the item used to revive someone on and off
• Movement speed while dying.
• Timer length.
• Some acceptable damage types; whether they will allow you to be revivable AND whether they will hurt you when dying.
• Health restored on revival.
• Some options as to when a player will be automatically removed from dying mode; on teleport, on death, on respawn.
• Basic world support; which worlds will LastStand work on.

Targets for Future Release

Drawing Board

• Separating the timer from the food bar to decrease incompatibility with other plugins.
• Increasing the time it takes to revive someone (more than just one right-click).
  

Known Issues

• Certain minigame plugins that use team spawn points seem to be incompatible in that players will be stuck in last stand mode when they respawn.
• Players are able to pick up items while dying as of 2.0; this is fixed as of 2.1.6.
• See the ticket regarding compatibility with AntiCheat.
• Anything that replenishes your foodbar without eating (such as the "food" spell in MagicSpells) makes it possible to remain in "last stand mode" indefinitely.
• Anything that cancels damage (such as the "leap" spell in MagicSpells) may interfere with the damage-cancelling that occurs right before "last stand mode" is activated, resulting in death.
• Sometimes if death occurs for any reason other than the food bar expiring (or disconnecting) in "last stand mode", you will still be in "last stand mode" upon respawning. You should be revivable, but a disconnect should always reset you. Also see the laststand.revive <player> command.
• When the PvP option is turned on, arrows may rarely bounce off of a player when they enter LastStand mode and hit someone else.
• Very rarely, LastStand mode fails to activate when damage is taken from players or mobs and the player will simply die.