Triple Life

Basic Description

Triple life is a combat minigame datapack inspired by Grian’s Third Life series with some of my own features and ideas. You have 3 (or optionally 5) lives, and fight to the death after a set ceasefire timer.

If you find a bug you can report on my Discord!

Features

Three Lives Hardcore
All players start with either 3 or 5 lives. Once you lose all lives you are dead and put in spectator. Like in Grian’s series, people with 3 lives left have green names, yellow on 2, red on 1, and grey on dead. Also blue on 5 and cyan on 4.

Ceasefire Timer
To prevent relying on honour like in Grian’s series, the pack disables direct pvp (melee weapons, bows, anything that would put the attacker’s name in the death message) during the ceasefire to ensure players get a fair start. You can still use TNT, fall damage, lava, or any other indirect way of damaging a player. There are 3 options for ceasefire length, 48, 64, and 96 minutes.

Loot Drops
Every 10 minutes, or configurable to 5, 18, or 36 in spawn room, the game will spread items across the map. They will despawn after 30 seconds. These items include food, building blocks, weapons, and a chance to get rare items like golden apples. Be sure to collect some good stuff!

Worldborder
The worldborder is set to a diameter of 700 blocks centered on 0,0 during the ceasefire period, I think this is similar to Grian’s series. Once PVP starts, the border shrinks to a diameter of 80 blocks over 5 minutes. This can be disabled.

Waiting Room
Players who join the world or server spawn in a generated structure at 0,0 in adventure mode. It is deleted once the game starts. It contains a command block to start the game along with some settings. You don’t need any command privilages, so competitive gameplay is possible without needing trust.

New Crafting Recipes

TNT is much cheaper, requiring only 1 gunpowder. Elytra are also craftable.

Instructions for use

First off, you will want a decent seed to play on before loading up the pack. The pack always has 0,0 at the centre of the map, so make sure your seed doesn’t have an inconvenient fighting surface there, like an ocean. You will also want make sure the seed is decently balanced, not with way more good structures or biomes all on one side.

The pack will work in both singleplayer open to lan and server. Do not add to an existing world that you care about, you will get locked in spectator when the game ends.

Addons

I have some addons for Triple Life that change gameplay features here:
https://modrinth.com/collection/2zraOVjR

Other details and notes

• Keep inventory is on by default for the entire game.
• The locator bar is disabled during ceasefire, and enabled during PVP.
• All players start with a vanilla bonus chest beside them and 4 bread in their inventory.
• Loot drops can sometimes cause lag spikes if large sections of the map are water.
• Loot drops can become OP if very large sections of the map are water. Loot does not spawn on water, so all the loot will be condensed on the land.