Life Skins

Each skin is listed in a skins array, and each entry names the image file to use and the minimum number of lives a player needs before that skin activates. The skin shown in game follows the life count. Skins are set up by creating a skins.json file, not by renaming image files, and adding more functionality later is possible as the file grows.

An entry can also match a player by team name: whenever a player's team name matches the field given, that skin is used, with a watcher custom team and two lives serving as the example. Each object sets whether the slim model is used, and a global field in the file overrides the other settings. Changes made to skins at runtime take effect without a restart. Because the array stops the game from searching for files on its own, every skin the server should show has to be listed.

Life Skins is published for Fabric only, for 1.21.5 – 1.21.11. Files exist for 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8, 1.21.10 and 1.21.11, and the latest file, 1.4.2+1.21.10, targets 1.21.11. It is server-side only, so players join without installing it. The mod is open source under the MIT License, and its source code and issue tracker are public.