# HardcoreLivesPlugin<\/p>\n
A plugin that allows you to give players limited lives on a survival server.
\nSimply drop the jar into your plugins folder and you’re ready to go.<\/p>\n
**Note:** The server must not actually be in hardcore mode for the plugin to work.
\nHardcore will ban players on death regardless of plugins. Please ensure `hardcore=false`
\nin your server.properties.<\/p>\n
**Note (2):** This plugin was built on top of Spigot and tested with PaperSpigot. Unofficial forks of Spigot are NOT
\nsupported and you will be asked to reproduce your issue on one of these official server distributions
\nif you are seeking support.<\/p>\n
——<\/p>\n
#### Commands:<\/p>\n
`\/hl` – Show Help<\/p>\n
`\/hl lives` – Check the number of lives you have<\/p>\n
`\/hl scoreboard` – Toggles the lives scoreboard for yourself.<\/p>\n
`\/hl lives buy `\/hl lives sell `\/hl giveLives `\/hl lives `\/hl resetAll` – Reset all player data and life counts<\/p>\n `\/hl reload` – Reload the plugin from config<\/p>\n `\/hl reset `\/hl config `\/hl setLives `\/hl addLives *Note that the above 2 commands will not exceed the maximum life count if one is set.*<\/p>\n `\/hl setMaxLives `\/hl scoreboardSlot `\/hl save` – Saves all player data to disk. This also happens automatically for a single player when a player leaves the `\/hl autosave ——<\/p>\n #### Config:<\/p>\n `startingLives` – *Integer* : Number of lives a player starts with when they first join the server. `allowTotemOfUndying` – *Boolean* : Setting to `false` prevents totem of undying from working: `spectateWhenNoMoreLives` – *Boolean* : Setting to `false` will cause players to be banned once they run out of lives. `autosaveInterval` – *Integer* : Sets the interval that player data is autosaved. Works in conjunction with `autosaveUnit` – *String*: Any of the following: `MICROSECONDS`, `MILLISECONDS`, `SECONDS`, `MINUTES`, `HOURS`, `DAYS`. `allowBuyingLives` – *Boolean* : Setting to true allows players with proper permissions to use `\/hl lives buy`<\/p>\n `allowSellingLives` – *Boolean* : Setting to true allows players with proper permissions to use `\/hl lives sell`<\/p>\n `allowGivingLives` – *Boolean* : Setting to true allows players with proper permissions to use `\/hl lives give`<\/p>\n `lifeBuyPrice` – *Float* : Sets the buy price of a single life for all players.<\/p>\n `lifeSellPrice` – *Float* : Sets the sell price of a single life for all players.<\/p>\n `scoreboardDisplaySlot` – *String* : Sets the display slot of the lives scoreboard. Valid values are `SIDEBAR`, `loseLifeOnPvpOnly` – *Boolean* : Setting to true causes players to only lose lives when they die in PVP combat. ——<\/p>\n #### Permissions ——<\/p>\n #### Placeholders: #### Other info:<\/p>\n – Opped players will not be forced into spectator mode even if they have zero lives. This A plugin that allows you to give players limited lives on a survival server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"hardcore-lives-plugin","_minecraft_project_id":"E1I3eLJ6","_minecraft_author":"VoxelBuster","_minecraft_license":"GPL-3.0-or-later","_minecraft_downloads":1913,"_minecraft_follows":4,"_minecraft_client_side":"unsupported","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"hardcore-lives-plugin.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":454853,"_minecraft_version_count":2,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-16T06:28:38.687547Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2024-03-23T06:40:21.751042Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2025-02-24T03:06:55.778157Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/hardcore-lives-plugin","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":0,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-04T13:48:57+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"a30963b55c3b623071de0ff7e060d947","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[89,126,127,129,92],"mod_loader":[132,134],"minecraft_version":[449,114,117,48,50,53,58,94,102,38],"class_list":["post-79344","mod","type-mod","status-publish","hentry","mod_category-game-mechanics","mod_category-management","mod_category-paper","mod_category-spigot","mod_category-utility","mod_loader-paper","mod_loader-spigot","minecraft_version-1-13-2","minecraft_version-1-14-4","minecraft_version-1-15-2","minecraft_version-1-16-5","minecraft_version-1-17-1","minecraft_version-1-18-2","minecraft_version-1-19-4","minecraft_version-1-20-4","minecraft_version-1-20-6","minecraft_version-1-21-4"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThis will not allow you to leave yourself with less than 1 life. ***Requires Vault***<\/p>\n
\nThis will not allow you to leave yourself with less than 1 life. ***Requires Vault***<\/p>\n
\nThis will not allow you to leave yourself with less than 1 life.<\/p>\n
\n**NOTE:** this is a server wide change.<\/p>\n
\nserver or the server is shut down gracefully.<\/p>\n
\nfollowing: `MICROSECONDS`, `MILLISECONDS`, `SECONDS`, `MINUTES`, `HOURS`, `DAYS`. It is not recommended you set this to
\nless than 10 seconds. **Default:** *5 minutes*<\/p>\n
\nDefault: `3`<\/p>\n
\nplayers will always die upon taking lethal damage. Default: `true`<\/p>\n
\nDefault: `true`<\/p>\n
\n`autosaveUnit`. It is not recommended you set these values lower than 10 seconds. This cannot be set by `\/hl config`.<\/p>\n
\nThis cannot be set by `\/hl config`.<\/p>\n
\n`BELOW_NAME`, or `PLAYER_LIST`. <\/p>\n
\nDefault: `false`<\/p>\n
\n– `hardcorelives.lives.others`
\n– `hardcorelives.lives.buy`
\n– `hardcorelives.lives.sell`
\n– `hardcorelives.lives.give`
\n– `hardcorelives.reset`
\n– `hardcorelives.resetAll`
\n– `hardcorelives.scoreboard`
\n– `hardcorelives.scoreboard.manage`
\n– `hardcorelives.reload`
\n– `hardcorelives.config`
\n– `hardcorelives.setLives`
\n– `hardcorelives.bypass`
\n– `hardcorelives.save`
\n– `hardcorelives.autosave`<\/p>\n
\n– `%hardcorelivesplugin_lives%`
\n– `%hardcorelivesplugin_max_lives%`<\/p>\n
\n is due to the fact that checking lives checks the `hardcorelives.bypass` permission, which ops always have.
\n – Resetting or manually overriding a player’s lives does not change their gamemode back. Be sure to `\/gamemode survival`<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"