Lifeline / Half-Hardcore

Life Series style survival for your Fabric server. Everyone starts with a set number of lives, their name color shows how many are left, and the colors decide who's allowed to start a fight. It's server-side only, so players can join with a vanilla client.

Features

• Lives: everyone starts with 6 (you can choose 1 to 10), and every death costs one. Your last death makes you a spectator, or gets you banned after a delay if the server prefers.
• Name colors: dark green, light green, yellow, gold and light red, then dark red on your last life. Games with more lives add aqua and purple at the top.
• Color PvP rules: dark red can attack anyone. Light red, gold and yellow can only attack colors above their own, and green players can't start fights. Whoever is hit can hit back for 30 seconds, with a countdown above the hotbar.
• Give a life: /lifeline givelife <player> hands one of your lives to someone else, and /lifeline list shows everyone's lives.
• Gear limits: diamond and netherite gear can't be crafted, looted or bought from villagers. Either can be allowed again.
• Half Hardcore mode: a simpler mode with 3 lives and hardcore hearts, without the PvP rules or giving lives.

For server owners

Operators change settings in game with /lifeline config (no restart needed, except to switch modes) and can set, add, remove or reset anyone's lives. Settings are saved in config/lifeseries.jsonc.

Compatibility

• Lifeline also works with an upcoming ChunkClaims mod that I am also making with claude
• Should be no issues with other mods, (let me know in the comments if there are any)

Requirements

Minecraft 26.3 with Fabric Loader, on the server only. Players don't need to install anything, and Fabric API isn't required. (Should also work on 26.4 Snapshots)

AI Notice

This entire mod was made with Claude Ai integrated in VS Code, there may still be some issues, Let me know in the comments, (This description was also made with Claude, I have gone through it making sure everything is correct)