Heartbound: Lifesteal
Kill a player and take one of their hearts. Lose your last heart and you're out until a friend brings you back with a Revive Orb.
Heartbound adds Lifesteal rules to any Minecraft Java 1.21.4 world, ready for a Lifesteal SMP.
A free datapack. No mods and no plugins, so it works in single-player, on Realms and on vanilla, Paper, Purpur and Fabric servers.
Features
- Steal hearts: every player kill moves one heart from the victim to the killer, by sword, bow or knocking them into lava
- Out at 0 hearts: a player who loses their last heart becomes a spectator, and everyone is told
- Revive Orb: craft one, hold right-click and click a name in chat to bring that player back next to you
- Withdraw hearts:
/trigger hb.withdraw turns a heart into an item to trade or save; only you can pick up a heart you dropped
- Craftable Heart and Revive Orb with their own name and glow
- Max hearts: at the cap, a stolen heart drops as an item instead
- Hearts in the player list (Tab)
- Clickable settings for operators: starting hearts, max hearts, hearts after a revive, PvP-only or any death, elimination on or off. No file editing.
- One-command uninstall that puts online players back to 10 hearts
Recipes
| Item |
Recipe |
| Heart |
4 diamond blocks in the corners, 4 gold blocks on the sides, 1 netherite ingot in the middle |
| Revive Orb |
4 diamond blocks in the corners, 4 gold blocks on the sides, 1 totem of undying in the middle |
Commands
| Command |
Who |
What it does |
/trigger hb.info |
Every player |
Shows your hearts, the max and the recipes |
/trigger hb.withdraw |
Every player |
Turns one of your hearts into an item |
/function heartbound:settings |
Operators |
Opens the clickable settings menu |
/function heartbound:uninstall |
Operators |
Puts everyone back to normal and removes the scores |
Install
Single-player
- Click your world, then Edit > Open World Folder.
- Put
Heartbound-1.0.0.zip in the datapacks folder. Don't unzip it.
- Load the world, or type
/reload if it's open.
Servers (vanilla, Paper, Purpur, Fabric)
- Put
Heartbound-1.0.0.zip in world/datapacks.
- Restart the server, or type
/reload (on Paper and Purpur, /minecraft:reload).
- Operators open the settings with
/function heartbound:settings.
Requirements
- Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4
- No mods, no plugins, no resource pack
Good to know
- The Revive Orb list shows online players. Operators can revive offline players with
/scoreboard players set <player> hb.hearts 1.
- Revived players get 5 seconds of protection and slow falling.
Tested
Tested on our Paper 1.21.4 test server with two real player connections: 41 checks, including real melee kills, eliminations, revives, withdrawing and eating hearts, every setting, /reload and uninstall.
Links
Not associated with Mojang or Microsoft.
