Death and respawn

Summary

Condition	Outcome
Bed intact	Respawn at bed with protection
Bed destroyed	Become permanent spectator
Fall below islandY − void-threshold (default 20)	Teleport to bed/spawn, no damage

Respawn protection (default 6 seconds):

• Slowness IX applied (prevents movement)
• Jump strength set to 0
• Player hidden from all enemies (bidirectional)
• Incoming damage fully cancelled
• Action bar shows countdown: §aProtection: Xs
• Disabled by setting respawn-protection: 0

Spectator

A player in a GameRoom who is not part of any team. Two distinct origins, same treatment:

• Eliminated — bed was destroyed; became spectator automatically mid-game
• Observer — joined a RUNNING room from the room listing

Both are in SPECTATOR gamemode, hidden from team players, given a compass (slot 0) to return to the main lobby, and teleported back to the main lobby when the game ends.

Spectator compass (slot 0): right-clicking returns the player to the main lobby and clears their inventory.

Disconnect & Reconnect

When a player disconnects from a RUNNING GameRoom, a ReconnectData snapshot is saved in GameManager keyed by UUID. On reconnect, the snapshot is consumed and one of four outcomes applies:

Condition on reconnect	Outcome
No snapshot, or room no longer exists, or room not RUNNING	Hub lobby state applied immediately
Snapshot present, wasSpectator = true	Re-added as observer (addObserver)
Snapshot present, team found, bed intact	Respawned at bed — SURVIVAL mode, full health/food, equipped, addProtection()
Snapshot present, team found, bed destroyed	Eliminated spectator (addSpectator)
Snapshot present, team color not found in room	Observer fallback

Implementation:

• GameManager.ReconnectData record: (roomId, teamColorName, wasSpectator) — team identified by color name string, not object reference, to survive disconnect/reconnect Player object churn
• GameManager.recordDisconnect(UUID, ReconnectData) — called from onPlayerQuit before the player is removed from the room
• GameManager.consumeReconnectData(UUID) — called from onPlayerJoin; removes and returns the snapshot (one-shot)
• GameManager.handleReconnect(Player, GameRoom, ReconnectData) — scheduled 1 tick after join to ensure full player initialization; applies the appropriate outcome above
• applyHubLobbyState(Player) in PlayerActivity — SURVIVAL mode, MAX_HEALTH, food level 20, saturation 20f, restoreHubInventory(), teleport to lobby-spawn config location