Loadoutsmp

For the texture pack make sure to join the discord and ping me @wummsy_ig three ability slots. a pvp kill buys you one, dying takes one away and leaves you with something worse.

that's the whole plugin. it's for servers where you want the answer to "what do i do in this fight" to change every fight, without bolting an rpg class system onto a vanilla-ish kit pvp box. the cheap version of that, one jar, no dependencies.

the loop

1. you get a pvp kill. a menu opens with three random abilities off the offense / defense / healing pools.
2. under three slots filled, the one you pick goes in the first free slot. at three filled you get the replace menu and choose which of your own abilities you throw away. permanently.
3. you die. one of your slots gets forced into a random debuff. not a choice, and no, milk doesn't fix it - it's an attribute modifier, not a potion. it sits there eating a third of your build until you win a fight, and then you either replace it with your pick or spend the pick on dropping the curse instead.

nothing gets picked for you. every ability in your slots is one you chose, and everything you lost is one you chose to lose. that's the whole design: the pressure is in the choosing, not in the grinding.

firing them

/use 1, /use 2, /use 3. /use next fires the first ready one, which is the thing you want on a keybind. /use on its own prints your three slots and what's cooling.

abilities are a command and not a right click because a right click is also "eat this golden carrot", "open that chest", "place this block", and i got tired of watching people lunge into a wall mid-build. if you miss the old way, activation.right-click: true puts it back. passives don't have a button at all - Execute and Bleed and the rest hook the damage events.

the 20

offense	defense	healing	debuff (only ever forced on you)
Lunge - dash at what you're looking at	Guard - eat the next hit entirely	Regen Pulse - 3 hearts plus regen	Weakened - 45% less damage, slow arms
Execute - bonus on anything under 20%	Thickskin - flat melee reduction	Second Wind - one save under 15%	Sluggish - 30% speed, no sprint
Bleed - your hits leave a wound that ticks	Slip - sometimes the knockback just misses you	Vampiric - steal health off melee hits	Exposed - armour is decoration now
Cripple - 30% chance to slow who you hit	Barrier - absorption bubble and some health back	Cleanse - strip every bad effect	Winded - every swing costs you food
Berserk - go stupid for 6s, pay for it after	Retaliate - half your face back in theirs	Sustain - tick back up out of combat	Shaky - long cooldowns, short reach

lunge is 4.5s, berserk 30s, guard 21s, barrier 31s, regen pulse 35s, cleanse 45s, second wind 2m30s. every damage figure, chance, duration and cooldown in that table is one number in config.yml and /loadout reload applies it without a restart.

icons

the jar carries a resource pack: a hand drawn 64x64 emblem for each of the twenty abilities, plus a 128px copy. on enable the plugin drops it next to the config, works out the sha1 itself, and serves it on its own little port - so a fresh server needs no nginx, no web host, no cloudflare. players who decline it still get a normal sword / shield / potion / arrow per ability, because the pack only ever adds an item_model to items this plugin gives itself and touches zero vanilla assets. nobody's potions change colour, nobody's clock stops ticking.

if you already host the pack somewhere, set resource-pack.url and it'll use yours instead of starting the http server.

putting it on

paper or purpur 1.21.11, java 21. one jar, 193kb, no dependencies and no softdepends. drop it in plugins/, restart, done.

• loadout.use is everybody, loadout.admin is op. no permissions plugin needed.
• saving is a single data.yml on the main thread. fine for a few hundred players, not built for a 3k box and i'm not going to pretend otherwise.
• not Folia.
• players have to be online to be edited. the equip/unequip hooks run against a live player, and pretending otherwise is how attribute modifiers start leaking across swaps.
• there's a sidebar and an actionbar nudge, both one flag off.

what it isn't

it's a pvp plugin with a pvp plugin's priorities. no claim protection, no skill tree, no config gui, no mysql, no placeholders, no locale files, no economy hooks. the config is yaml and you read it like a person.

two things to know before your first death on it: the debuffs are deliberately mean (1.4 gave them teeth, before that they were a shrug) and a lost ability only comes back if it shows up on a later roll - there's no "re-buy it cheaper" option by design. if your server is mostly people who die a lot, leave death.allow-stacking-debuffs: false and raise kill.min-ticks-between-rolls before somebody has a word with you.

admin

/loadout set <player> <1-3> <ability>   force a slot
/loadout give <player> <ability>         first free slot
/loadout clear <player>                  wipe all three
/loadout roll <player>                   open a pick menu for them (testing)
/loadout pack [send|off]                 the icon pack
/loadout reload                          config, no restart

/loadout help prints the same list in game, and that's the one i keep up to date.