Hostage Run

One player takes the Hostage role and is tied to a fence. The Captors compete in a survival hunt, and the Hostage must outlast a timer while the Captors fight each other. A round ends with exactly one winner: the Captor whose blow finishes off the Hostage is the sole victor. The Hostage cannot take or deal damage, and the only way to end a round in the Hostage's favour is to push the Hostage into the End void. Because the Hostage cannot take knockback, a Captor has to drag the Hostage along toward the void.

If the Hostage escapes by logging out, dying or switching dimensions, the round changes accordingly. A tie to the fence holds the Hostage in place, but the Hostage cannot break the fence directly. Captors gain access to a leash item and a tracker item, and the Hostage's inventory is cleared only once at the start. Fabric API is required, and the mod is published for 1.21.4 and 1.21.11, with the 2.0 build for 1.21.11 as the latest file. The mod runs on the server alone, so players join without installing anything.

The mod is released under the MIT License, but its code is not open source. Updates reach the Hostage Run page as soon as they are published, and the Hostage Run project is maintained by PolarLordStar.