📖 Why DeathPenalty?

In vanilla Minecraft and casual SMP servers, death often feels either completely meaningless (with /gamerule keepInventory true, where dying is used as a free teleport back home) or overly punishing (losing hours of hard-earned gear into lava or despawning items).

Furthermore, server economies suffer from constant inflation: players accumulate millions of currency with very few natural sinks to keep money circulating.

DeathPenalty solves both problems with surgical precision:

1. Dynamic Economic Balance: Introduce fair, scalable currency deductions (flat rate or percentage) upon death.
2. Rebalancing KeepInventory: Keep item inventories safe while still enforcing real consequences through EXP loss, respawn fatigue/debuffs, or physical dropped cash.
3. Immersive Survival Stakes: Death matters again. Careless play incurs consequences, encouraging smart preparation, team strategy, and cautious exploration.
4. Modern, Lag-Free Architecture: Built from the ground up for modern Paper and Folia regional multi-threading (1.16.5 up to PaperMC 26.2), with dual HikariCP connection pooling for SQLite and MySQL.

🌟 Key Features Breakdown

💰 1. Dynamic Economy Sink Engine

• Flexible Deduction Models: Choose between a fixed flat cost (e.g. $250.00 per death) or a percentage of player wealth (e.g. 5% of current balance).
• Minimum & Maximum Floors: Protect impoverished newcomers with minimum balance safety thresholds while ensuring wealthy veterans face meaningful deductions.
• Physical Cash Drops: Lost funds can optionally drop as physical collectible items on the ground with customizable item materials, display names, and lore—allowing killers or passersby to scavenge the bounty!
• Full Vault Compatibility: Works out of the box with EssentialsX, EconomyShopGUI, TheNewEconomy, and any Vault-backed economy.

🎒 2. Smart Inventory & EXP Loss Mechanics

• Selective Slot & Stack Drops: Drop or permanently delete a configurable number of item stacks or inventory slots on death instead of wiping everything.
• Full KeepInventory Harmony: Functions seamlessly on servers with keepInventory true, injecting controlled consequences without breaking world rules.
• Soulbound Item Immunity: Protect special lore-tagged gear (e.g. donor items, quest artifacts, soulbound equipment) from ever being dropped or destroyed.
• Authentic Vanilla EXP Scaling: Precise vanilla leveling calculations ensure experience penalties match genuine Minecraft level formulas rather than arbitrary flat numbers.

💖 3. Respawn Vitals & Debuff Status Effects

• Custom Health & Hunger: Control the exact amount of hearts, hunger bars, and saturation players respawn with.
• Debuff Status Effects: Temporarily inflict atmospheric potion effects on respawn (e.g. Slowness, Mining Fatigue, Weakness, Blindness) to discourage reckless "kamikaze" gameplay.
• Custom Durations & Amplifiers: Set individual durations and potencies for every potion effect directly via in-game menus.

🧟 4. Revenge Revenant Mobs

• Vengeful Guardians: Automatically spawn an aggressive custom mob (Zombie, Skeleton, Piglin, etc.) directly at the player's death coordinate.
• Sunlight Protection: Mobs can spawn wearing protective helmets to prevent daylight burning.
• Loot Defenders: Forces players to earn back their dropped loot by confronting the guardian that watches over their grave.

🌐 5. Dynamic Per-Player Multi-Language (10 Languages)

• 10 Built-in Language Files: Automatically generated and translated:
  • 🇺🇸 English (en_US)
  • 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia (id_ID)
  • 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
  • 🇯🇵 Japanese (ja_JP)
  • 🇪🇸 Spanish (es_ES)
  • 🇮🇹 Italian (it_IT)
  • 🇸🇦 Arabic (ar_SA)
  • 🇩🇪 German (de_DE)
  • 🇫🇷 French (fr_FR)
  • 🇷🇺 Russian (ru_RU)
• Instant Per-Player Toggle: Each player can switch their personal language independently via /dp info without affecting other players.
• Zero Reload Required: All 14 GUIs, death notices, actionbars, and chat prompts update instantaneously.

💾 6. Dual Database Engine (HikariCP)

• SQLite & MySQL Ready: Store death counts, lifetime money lost, and player settings in lightweight local SQLite or centralized MySQL networks.
• 1-Click In-Game Migrator: Easily transfer your entire database from SQLite to MySQL on the fly via /dp convert or directly through the GUI.
• Zero-Lag Asynchronous Pooling: Powered by native HikariCP with a 20-tick debounce buffer, ensuring a 0.00ms tick impact even under heavy player traffic.

🖥️ 7. 100% NMS-Free GUI & Interactive Chat Prompts

• Full Visual In-Game Admin: Configure every penalty, percentage, and limit visually with /dp config.
• Safe Chat Input System: Enter numbers and text directly through intuitive chat prompts—no fragile Anvil packets, no NMS dependencies, and completely crash-proof across Minecraft updates.

📸 In-Game Preview

Player Stats & Language Menu (/dp info)	Admin Visual Editor (/dp config)

Potion Respawn Effects Editor	Limits & Drop Controls

🚀 Installation & Quick Start

1. Verify Requirements:
   • Server: Paper, Purpur, Folia, or Spigot (1.16.5 up to PaperMC 26.2).
   • Java: Java 17, Java 21, or Java 25.
   • Economy Provider: Vault + any economy plugin (e.g. EssentialsX).
2. Download & Place:
   • Download the latest DeathPenalty-1.9.1.jar and place it into your server's plugins/ directory.
3. Start Server:
   • Start your server to generate default configuration files and language templates in plugins/DeathPenalty/.
4. Customize:
   • Modify settings in-game via /dp config or adjust config.yml directly.
   • Run /dp reload to apply file changes instantly!

⌨️ Commands & Permissions

Commands

Permissions

📊 PlaceholderAPI Integration

DeathPenalty provides rich PlaceholderAPI identifiers (%dp_...%) for scoreboards, TAB lists, chat formats, and holograms:

🛡️ WorldGuard 7 Integration

Want to disable death penalties inside PvP arenas, minigame lobbies, or spawn regions?

DeathPenalty registers a custom WorldGuard flag:

# Disable death penalty inside a specific region:
/rg flag <region_name> deathpenalty deny

# Re-enable death penalty inside a specific region:
/rg flag <region_name> deathpenalty allow

💎 Check Out DeathPenalty Premium

Looking to transform death into an immersive RPG gameplay system? DeathPenalty Premium adds:

• 💠 Soul Stability System: Dynamic soul instability points, escalating multipliers, and restorative survival rituals (sleep, survival timers, soul shards).
• 🧙 Multi-Cleric NPC Management: Place persistent cleric NPCs in towns and villages with customizable treatment fees, dialogue, and insurance policies.
• 🛡️ Death Insurance System: Players can purchase tiered insurance policies to safeguard inventories and recover lost assets.
• ☠️ Death Curse System: Terrifying soul afflictions inflicted on death requiring herbal cleanses or sacred rituals.