Soul Forge

# 🌌 SoulForge

✨ The Ultimate High-Stakes Hardcore SMP Core ✨

SoulForge is an advanced, performance-optimized survival mechanics plugin designed for competitive SMP, factions, and hardcore networks. Merging the intense thrill of life-stealing networks with mechanical item-based value, SoulForge turns every PvP encounter into a brutal struggle for survival.

When a player falls in battle, their lifeforce is physically shattered into commodity pieces. Survival is no longer cheap—it must be forged.

## 🚀 Key Features

⚔️ True High-Stakes PvP: When a player kills another player in PvP, a physical Soul Shard drops at the victim's feet, accompanied by a dynamic lightning strike sound effect and special particle trails. 🛡️ Hardcore Life Insurance: If a player has a custom-crafted Soul Totem in their inventory upon taking fatal PvP damage, the totem is consumed to anchor their soul, keeping them safe and online. ❌ Vanilla Totem Rejection: Say goodbye to endless raid farm exploits. Standard vanilla totems are completely disabled and will shatter into glass pieces if used, forcing players to engage with the server economy. 🔒 Seamless Elimination & Revival: Players killed without a Soul Totem are temporarily banned ("Shattered"). Teammates must gather rare shards and diamonds to forge a Revival Core, right-clicking it to restore their ally to the living world. ⚡ Ultra-Optimized Backend: Built strictly with native Paper/Spigot APIs and utilizing standard `PersistentDataContainer` tracking. Zero reliance on external libraries means zero performance lag and complete security against item-renaming duplication exploits.

## 🧪 Custom Items & Recipes

SoulForge introduces three strictly registered custom tiers using secure internal data tags.

### 🧊 1. Soul Shard Base Material: Ghast Tear (`GHAST_TEAR`) In-Game Display: `§b§lSoul Shard` Description: The ultimate server commodity. Dropped only upon a physical PvP kill.

### 👑 2. Soul Totem (The Insurance Policy) Base Material: Totem of Undying (`TOTEM_OF_UNDYING`) In-Game Display: `§e§lSoul Totem` Crafting Recipe Grid: ```text [ Gold Block ] [ Soul Shard ] [ Gold Block ] [ Gold Block ] [ Soul Shard ] [ Gold Block ] Base Material: Totem of Undying (`TOTEM_OF_UNDYING`) In-Game Display: `§e§lSoul Totem` Crafting Recipe Grid: ```text [ Gold Block ] [ Soul Shard ] [ Gold Block ] [ Gold Block ] [ Soul Shard ] [ Gold Block ]