Lifesteal SMP is the breakout Minecraft gamemode of the last two years. Every kill steals a heart from your victim. Run out of hearts and you're banned for a fixed window. Survival has never been this tense.
Made famous by content creators, Lifesteal SMP turns vanilla survival into a permanent high-stakes PvP environment. Most servers add a hearts-on-totem system: craft Hearts of Recall to recover, or hunt other players to stack up to a 20-heart cap.
Beginner tip: don't engage other players until you have iron armour and a decent base. Death is permanent (during the ban window) and you'll lose everything.
A Minecraft survival gamemode where killing a player steals one of their hearts. Hitting 0 hearts bans you for a fixed duration (usually 24h-7d).
Yes — most Lifesteal servers add craftable Hearts so you can recover by gathering rare materials or killing other players.