Lifesteal Advanced — The Ultimate Lifesteal Experience
⚔️ Power. Risk. Strategy.
Take your Minecraft PvP and SMP gameplay to the next level with Lifesteal Advanced, the most complete and optimized Lifesteal plugin ever built.
Designed for performance, flexibility, and style — this plugin transforms your server into an immersive combat-driven world, where every death matters, every heart counts, and every choice has consequences.

Built with ❤️ by Mr_Ayush

Core Features
❤️ Custom Heart System

• Players gain or lose hearts when killing or dying to other players.
  
  
• Configurable min and max hearts, and custom scaling per kill.
  
  
• Supports heart items that can be crafted, dropped, or purchased.
  
  
• Live updates using Minecraft’s native health attributes.
  

Heart Shop & Economy

• Full GUI-based shop system (/heartshop).
  
  
• Buy and sell Heart Cores, Heart Shards, or Insurance using Vault economy.
  
  
• Works with any economy plugin (Essentials, CMI, PlayerPoints, etc.).
  
  
• Optional dynamic pricing that auto-balances based on supply and demand.
  

️ Heart Insurance

• Protect your hearts before combat!
  
  
• Players can purchase Heart Insurance using in-game money to prevent losing hearts on death.
  
  
• Customizable cooldowns, costs, and stack limits.
  
  
• Broadcast messages when insurance is used.
  

Withdraw System

• Withdraw hearts as Heart Core items using /lifestealwithdraw <amount>.
  
  
• Trade hearts, store them, or use them for crafting revival items.
  
  
• Fully safe and configurable with minimum-heart protection.
  

️ Revive Beacon System

• A powerful new feature: revive dead players by activating a beacon with a Heart Core or Nether Star!
  
  
• Opens a GUI with all dead players — click to revive instantly.
  
  
• Includes configurable cooldowns, effects, sounds, and costs.
  
  
• Perfect for Lifesteal SMPs with death bans or limited lives.
  

Events & Seasons

• Built-in event system — rotate between special events like:
  
  • Heart Rush (extra heart steal)
    
    
  • Blood Moon (mobs drop Heart Shards)
    
    
  • ☮️ Peace Hour (PvP disabled)
    
• Automated season system — reset hearts every X days, reward top players, and broadcast winners automatically.
  

Leaderboards

• /hearttop shows the top players ranked by hearts, kills, and stats.
  
  
• Supports PlaceholderAPI placeholders for holograms, scoreboards, or menus.
  
  
• GUI and chat pagination included.
  

⚙️ Admin & Utility Commands

• /hearts, /heartshop, /heartinsurance buy, /hearttop, /lifestealwithdraw, /revivebeacon, /lifestealadvanced info/help
  
  
• Admin tools: /hearts set, /hearts add, /lifesteal reload, /season endnow, /event force <id>
  
  
• Includes /lsa as a shortcut alias for /lifestealadvanced.
  

Dependencies
Required:

• Vault → for economy support.
  (Requires an economy plugin like EssentialsX Economy, CMI, or PlayerPoints.)
  

Recommended (Soft-Depends):

• PlaceholderAPI → for placeholders in scoreboards, GUIs, and holograms.
  
  
• WorldGuard → prevents stealing hearts in protected regions.
  
  
• LuckPerms → manages permissions easily.
  

Libraries (already included):

• HikariCP → async MySQL connection pooling.
  
  
• Adventure/MiniMessage API → for rich text and color formatting.
  

⚡ Performance & Safety

• 100% async database operations — zero lag impact.
  
  
• Smart caching system with periodic auto-saves.
  
  
• No data loss on restart or crash.
  
  
• Efficient event listeners optimized for large player bases.
  
  
• Built for Paper 1.20–1.21+ using modern APIs.
  

Customization

• Fully configurable config.yml, messages.yml, and GUI layouts.
  
  
• Everything — from heart mechanics to event durations — can be edited without touching the code.
  
  
• Reload support: /lifesteal reload applies changes instantly.