SnKills

SnKills replaces the vanilla death message with one you write yourself, per damage cause, and puts the killer's weapon in chat with its real in-game tooltip attached.

Features

• One message template per Bukkit damage cause: fall, lava, void, drowning, the lot. Leave one empty and that death is silent; fill FALLBACK and everything else gets a default line.
• PLAYER_KILL fires whenever a player did the killing, whatever the damage cause was, so a PvP message never has to be duplicated across ENTITY_ATTACK, PROJECTILE and the rest.
• %item% renders the killer's weapon as a hoverable component showing the item's real tooltip - name, enchantments, lore and attribute lines - exactly what you see hovering it in your inventory. Not an approximation built from lore lines.
• Full PlaceholderAPI support in every template, resolved against the victim.
• Colour codes (&a), hex (&#RRGGBB) and the MiniMessage colour tags (<gradient>, <rainbow>) all render.
• New damage causes added by a Minecraft update are inserted into your config.yml automatically, keeping your values and your comments.

What it deliberately does not do

• Interactive MiniMessage tags (<click>, <hover>, <font>) render as literal text. A placeholder can resolve to text a player chose, and a death message goes to every online player, so live click actions are not worth the exposure.
• The vanilla death message is always suppressed, for every death, whether or not SnKills prints one of its own. There is no opt-out key.

Optional integrations

• PlaceholderAPI: any placeholder works inside a death message template, resolved against the victim. Without it the tokens are left untouched and the message still sends.

Links

• Source and releases: part of the shared Sn-Releases repo