Hardcore Revival Ritual

# Hardcore Revive

**Dying is not the end. It is a problem for your friends to solve.**

Hardcore Revive turns death into a group mechanic. You do not drop to spectator and you
do not lose the world — you come back as a **ghost**, and the only way out is for a
living player to build an altar and perform a resurrection ritual. Every death you rack
up makes the next one harder to walk away from.

Built for a small server with friends. Every single line of text is translated, so
everyone plays in their own language.

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## You die, you become a ghost

No spectator mode, no death screen. You respawn instantly as a ghost:

- Permanently invisible, no collision with anything.
- Zero interaction range — no breaking blocks, no opening chests, no hitting anyone.
- Immune to damage, fire, drowning and hunger, with night vision so you can still follow
  your friends around and watch them fail to rescue you.
- Soul particles trail behind you so the living notice you are there.
- A floating sign above your head shows your name, your death count and the ritual level
  needed to bring you back.
- Ghosts talk in chat with a `[Ghost]` prefix, and cannot earn advancements.

**The moment you die, the exact altar recipe for your level is printed in chat**, in each
player's own language. Nobody has to alt-tab to a wiki. Any living player can also type
`/trigger hcr_menu` to see the altar for every ghost currently in the world.

## Five ritual levels

The level is **per player** and climbs with each of your own deaths, capped at 5. A living
player builds the matching 3×3 altar, stands **on the centre block** with the ghost within
10 blocks, and holds right click with the **Ritual Totem**.

| Level | Corners | Sides | Centre | Extra | Offering |
|-------|---------|-------|--------|-------|----------|
| 1 | Gold block | Iron block | Iron block | — | 1 diamond |
| 2 | Gold block | Iron block | Diamond block | — | 1 golden apple |
| 3 | Polished basalt | Blackstone | Magma block | 4 soul torches on the corners | 1 blaze rod + 1 magma cream |
| 4 | Quartz block | Blackstone | Respawn anchor | 4 soul torches on the corners | 4 netherite scrap |
| 5 | Crying obsidian | Obsidian | Netherite block | 4 soul torches on the corners | 1 netherite ingot + 1 nether star |

And what coming back costs you:

| Level | Result |
|-------|--------|
| 1 | Full health + Regeneration I for 30 seconds |
| 2 | Full health + Weakness I for 2 minutes |
| 3 | Half health + Fire Resistance + Hunger I, and **−1 max heart permanently** |
| 4 | Half health and **−3 max hearts permanently** |
| 5 | Half health and **−5 max hearts permanently** |

The heart loss is a floor per level, not a running total: being revived twice at level 5
still costs 5 hearts, not 10. Craftable Hearts are how you win them back.

If anything is wrong — altar misbuilt, offering missing, no ghost nearby — the totem is
handed straight back and chat tells you exactly what failed. No silently eaten items.

## Craftable Hearts

A **Heart** (1 diamond + 4 iron blocks) grants **+1 permanent max heart**, capped at +10
per player. It is how you win back the heart a level 5 ritual takes from you, and it gives
the late game something to sink iron into.

## 197 advancements

Four dedicated tabs: serious progression, stupid ways to die, ghosts and rituals, and
grinding thresholds. Each one announces itself in chat **in each player's own language**
and hands out a themed **reward chest** — place it, open it, and it fills with loot.

Reward chests deliberately never contain an item that another advancement is watching for,
so opening one never chain-completes half the tree.

## Everything else

- **Scaling difficulty** — newly spawned hostile mobs gain +5% health and damage every 5
  Minecraft days, stacking up to day 100. Chat announces the tier each dawn.
- **World leaderboard** posted every 10 minutes: most kills, most blocks mined, most
  deaths, longest time alive, most distance walked, most revivals, most rituals performed.
- Player health in the TAB list, drawn as hearts.
- Sidebar with the world day, current ghosts, living players and total deaths.
- Regeneration I near a lit campfire.

## Languages

Every piece of text uses translation keys. Install the companion **resource pack** and each
player automatically sees English or Spanish depending on their own client language.
Without it everything still reads fine — it falls back to Spanish, never to raw translation
keys.

## Install

1. Drop the zip into `<world>/datapacks/`. Restart the server or run `/reload`.
2. Install the companion resource pack (linked on this page) for the translations.
3. **Keep `hardcore=false` in `server.properties`.** Vanilla hardcore forces spectator on
   death and blocks respawning, which fights the ghost system. This pack provides the
   punishment on its own.

To remove everything cleanly: `/function hardcore_revive:uninstall`. It deletes the floating
signs, strips every attribute modifier, revokes the advancements and removes all
scoreboards, so you can delete the folder afterwards with nothing left behind.

## Compatibility

Every objective is prefixed `hcr_`, the team is `hcr_ghosts` and all entity tags start with
`hcr_`. It **overrides no vanilla files at all** — everything lives under the
`hardcore_revive` namespace except the two required function tags (`load` and `tick`),
which are additive. It cannot conflict with other data packs.

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## En español

Muere y vuelves como **fantasma**: invisible, intangible, sin poder tocar nada. Tus amigos
tienen que construir un altar y hacer un ritual de resurrección para devolverte a la vida, y
cada muerte tuya sube el nivel del ritual, hasta cinco. A partir del nivel 3 volver te
cuesta corazones de vida máxima para siempre: 1 en el nivel 3, 3 en el 4 y 5 en el 5.

Al morir, **la receta del altar que te corresponde sale en el chat**, así que nadie tiene que
leerse nada. Incluye corazones crafteables, 197 logros propios con cofres de recompensa,
dificultad que sube cada 5 días de Minecraft y un ranking del mundo cada 10 minutos.

Todo el texto está en español e inglés: cada jugador lo ve en el idioma que tenga puesto en
su cliente.