What is Borrowed Time?
Every player is given a personal countdown timer — and it never stops ticking. Your time is your life. Slay mobs to buy more seconds, but stand still too long and the clock drains twice as fast. The moment it hits zero, you're dead.

It turns an ordinary survival world into a frantic, high-pressure loop where standing around is a death sentence and every kill is a lifeline.

✨ Features

• Live countdown boss bar — every player sees their remaining time at a glance, color-coded green → yellow → red as it runs low.
• Earn time by killing — every mob kill adds seconds. Fully configurable rewards per mob type.
• Idle penalty — stand still too long and your timer drains faster. Keep moving, keep surviving.
• Death at zero — run out of time and you die, with a custom death message.
• Persistent timers — remaining time is saved across logouts and server restarts.
• Smart eligibility — exclude Creative/Spectator players, limit to specific worlds, or exempt staff with a permission.
• Admin commands — set, add, get, pause, and reload on the fly.
  Tutorial & Cutscene
  New players are eased in with a built-in cinematic tutorial — no need to explain the rules in chat or wikis. The first time someone joins, a scripted camera cutscene plays automatically, sweeping the view while titles and chat messages walk them through how the countdown works: earn time by killing, lose it by idling, and don't let the clock hit zero.
  • Plays on first join — every new player gets the full intro automatically.
  • Replay anytime — run /bt tutorial to watch it again whenever you like.
  • Cinematic camera — a moving, scripted view sets the tone before the clock starts ticking.
  • Guided walkthrough — clear on-screen titles and chat text explain every mechanic step by step.
  
  ⚙️ Commands & Permissions
  • /bt get [player] — check remaining time
  • /bt set <player> <seconds> — set a player's time
  • /bt add <player> <seconds> — add or remove time
  • /bt pause / /bt resume — freeze or resume all timers
  • /bt reload — reload the config
  • /bt tutorial — replay the intro cutscene and walkthrough
  • /bt tutorial <player> — play the tutorial for another player (admin)
  Permissions: borrowedtime.admin, borrowedtime.exempt
  
  Fully Configurable
  Tune starting time, the maximum cap, base drain rate, idle penalty, idle threshold, per-mob rewards, excluded gamemodes, and world restrictions — all from a clean, commented config.yml.
  
  Requirements
  • Paper 1.21.11 (or compatible)
  • Java 21
  • Paper
  
  
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  Install it. Start the clock. Don't waste a second.​