## Summary<\/p>\n
Respawn Penalty is a server-side Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.8 that adds persistent death penalties to discourage reckless gameplay and repeated suicide-respawn abuse.<\/p>\n
Players who repeatedly die within a short time window receive escalating penalties such as reduced max health, reduced food level, Weakness, Slowness, Mining Fatigue, and temporary sleep-recovery locks. The system is designed to increase survival tension without creating permanent death spirals.<\/p>\n
The mod includes persistent multiplayer-safe UUID tracking, server restart persistence using Minecraft `PersistentState`, passive recovery over time, and anti-exploit behavior that prevents players from instantly resetting penalties through repeated sleep cycles.<\/p>\n
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## Penalty System<\/p>\n
When a non-creative, non-spectator player dies and respawns:<\/p>\n
| Death streak | Max health | Food | Effects | Sleep recovery lock |
\n|—:|—:|—:|—|—:|
\n| 1 | 15 | 9 | Weakness 30s, Slowness 10s, Darkness 3s | none |
\n| 2 | 14 | 8 | Weakness 45s, Slowness 15s, Darkness 4s | none |
\n| 3 | 12 | 7 | Weakness II 60s, Slowness 20s, Mining Fatigue 20s, Darkness 5s | none |
\n| 4-5 | 10 | 6 | Weakness II 75s, Slowness 25s, Mining Fatigue 30s, Darkness 6s | 5 minutes |
\n| 6+ | 10 | 6 | Weakness II 90s, Slowness II 30s, Mining Fatigue 40s, Darkness 8s | 10 minutes |<\/p>\n
Death streak increases only when deaths happen within 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
Penalties cap at 10 max health and 6 food to avoid permanent death spirals.<\/p>\n
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## Recovery<\/p>\n
A player recovers when either condition happens:<\/p>\n
– Successfully sleeps while sleep recovery is not locked
\n– Survives online for 20 minutes<\/p>\n
Repeated intentional deaths temporarily lock sleep recovery:<\/p>\n
| Streak | Lock duration |
\n|—|—|
\n| 4-5 | 5 minutes |
\n| 6+ | 10 minutes |<\/p>\n
Survival recovery still works during the lock period.<\/p>\n
This prevents:<\/p>\n
“`text
\ndie -> sleep -> reset -> die
\n““<\/p>\n
abuse loops without permanently trapping players.<\/p>\n
Recovery restores:<\/p>\n
* Original max-health base value
\n* Normal recovery state
\n* Cleared penalty effects<\/p>\n
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## Anti-Exploit Guarantees<\/p>\n
* Respawn cannot fully restore normal health\/food
\n* Logout\/relog keeps active penalty state
\n* Server restart preserves:<\/p>\n
* death streak
\n * active penalties
\n * recovery lock
\n* Multiplayer state is isolated per UUID
\n* Creative and spectator players are ignored
\n* Penalty persistence survives crashes and restarts through world `PersistentState`<\/p>\n
Note: Death streak only increases if deaths happen within the configured streak window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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