
NyxHeads
NyxHeads is a Paper plugin that lets players steal lives by collecting the heads of players they kill, with banned players only able to return when their…
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💀 NyxHeads
A hardcore-style revival system for Paper servers where player lives are tied directly to their heads.
⚔️ Features
🗡️ Player Kill System
Only player-versus-player kills count.
If a player is killed by another player:
- 💀 The victim's player head drops.
- 🔨 The victim is instantly banned.
- 🎒 The killer can collect and carry the head.
The following do NOT trigger the system:
- Fall damage
- Lava
- Fire
- Drowning
- Suffocation
- Void damage
- TNT
- Creepers
- Mobs
- Environmental damage
- Commands
- Any non-player death source
❤️ Revival System
Every dropped head is linked to the player who died.
When a revival head is placed:
- ✨ The head is consumed.
- 🔓 The banned player is automatically unbanned.
- ⚡ The player is revived instantly.
- 📍 The player is teleported to the exact location where the head was placed.
🛡️ Head Protection
Revival heads are protected from storage and abuse.
Heads cannot be placed inside:
- Ender Chests
- Chests
- Trapped Chests
- Barrels
- Shulker Boxes
- Hoppers
- Droppers
- Dispensers
- Furnaces
- Bundles
- Item Frames
- Glow Item Frames
- Container Minecarts
- Any other storage container
Heads may only:
- 🎒 Exist in a player's inventory
- 📦 Exist as a dropped item
- ❤️ Be placed for revival
⚙️ Administration
Commands:
/nyxheads/nyxheads reload/nyxheads status/nyxheads headsplugin enable/nyxheads headsplugin disable/nyxheads revive <player>/nyxheads unban <player>
🔑 Permissions
nyxheads.adminnyxheads.reloadnyxheads.revivenyxheads.unban
🔧 Configuration
Configurable options include:
- Plugin enable/disable
- Death broadcasts
- Revival broadcasts
- Save intervals
- Custom messages
Supports MiniMessage formatting.
📦 Compatibility
- Paper 1.21.x
- Java 21
📝 Notes
- 💾 Data persists through server restarts.
- 🎭 Revival heads are tied to specific players.
- 🔒 Designed to prevent duplication glitches and storage exploits.
- 🌎 Perfect for SMPs, Hardcore, Factions, and PvP-focused servers.
🔥 Bring real consequences to PvP and make every head matter.
Created By Jesterlol_
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as nyxheads-1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 26 KB
- Download link checked 24 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.