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New Gamerule: Limited Lives

Sometimes hardcore is a little too hardcore for some people. But also having infinite lives is too easy, as it allows things like purposefully dying to refill health and hunger. I think there should be a gamerule that allows a middleground, one that allows you to click the respawn button only a certain number of times before putting you in spectator mode. Perhaps something like
/gamerule limitedLives true
/set limitedLives 5
to set the amount of respawns you have to five, for example.
Maybe there can be a command to add lives, like

/add limitedLives 1
to add a respawn, so mapmakers can put "1ups" on their maps.

This gamerule would be the perfect middle ground for mapmakers who find hardcore too punishing, but don't want people who play their map to abuse respawns.

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    This is one of the best suggestions i heard today

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    I also think that it should be /limitedlives <set/add/clear> instead of /set or /add limitedlives, but other than that i think its worthy to make it into minecraft!

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    This is already possible with scoreboard objectives:

    1. Set your world to LAN mode and turn on cheats temporarily. Cheats will turn off as soon as you leave the world

    2. In chat, type the following commands:
      /scoreboard objectives add deaths deathCount
      /gamerule commandBlockOutput false

    3. Place a command block directly under the world spawn underneath some bedrock so you don't bump into it (you will need to be in creative mode to do this). Set the command block to "Repeating" and "Always Active" and type:
      /gamemode spectator @a[gamemode=!spectator,scores={deaths=5..}]

      To change the number of lives you have, just change the number inside the curly brackets.

    And just like that, you have a limited number of lives without needing to get a new gamerule. Put yourself back into survival mode, leave the world, rejoin, and cheats will be turned off. The command block will still work, meaning you will still have a limited number of lives. If you want to give yourself another life, type the following into chat:

    /scoreboard players remove @p deaths 1

    This subtract 1 death from your total death count, essentially giving you another life

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    If you're the owner of the world and you've lost all your lives, would you have to delete the world? If so, I would recommend taking screen shots of your creations in case that happens!

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    I hope and wish for this!

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    i like this idea, and would like a gamemode where while death isn't the end, it still has extreme consequences