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Created by ParrotX2, the Lifesteal SMP is a Minecraft survival series with a twist: If you kill someone, you can steal one of their hearts and add it to your healthbar. If a player loses all of their hearts, they are banned from the server; however, other players on the server can use resources in order to revive them, and players can craft more hearts if necessary. Featuring many YouTubers such as Parrot himself, roshambogames, ClownPierce, Branzy, Spoke, and many more, watch as they fight to survive in a land where your main enemy is often your fellow player, and where betrayal and assassination are a few steps away at any time. Who will come out on top, and what will happen, on this season of Lifesteal SMP.
Currently running for 5 seasons, each of the seasons introduces new characters, new mechanics, minor changes to old mechanics, and, most importantly of all, a new map. Each major YouTuber has their own POV, with each of their channels highlighting a different set of events and story lines, with elaboration given to their own perspectives. In addition to fighting, the YouTubers often get together and have fun trolling each other, or hosting social events (even if they are a cover for some scheme to steal each others' hearts). The YouTubers involved with the server(s) are:
Note: All tropes pertain to the characters, not the content creators that play them.
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The Lifesteal SMP contains examples of:
General
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Being in Minecraft, the Lifesteal SMP is filled with many brightly colored skins.
- PrinceZam is bright yellow.
- 4CVIT is bright blue.
- Spepticle has red skin.
- Reddoons also has red skin.
- Anyone Can Die: Due to being non-scripted, a player can die in any way and end up being banned if they lose all of their hearts.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Although various in-game monsters have killed players, the most common threat is other players. The alliances, betrayals, and enemies made has caused players to lose many hearts.
- Maximum HP Reduction: Half of the main gimmick: When somebody kills someone else, they steal one of their permanent hearts. If someone dies to the environment beyond Season 1, they also lose Maximum HP, but, since it is to the environment, it simply disappears. Because of this, it becomes progressively easier to kill people the more hearts they lose, especially if you were the one to kill them.
- Meaningful Name:
- Reddoons has red skin and Baconnwaffles0 is a literal piece of bacon.
- Roshambo has the symbols for Rock, Paper and Scissors overlaid on his pure sky blue colored skin, which is exactly what Roshambo the game is.
- Clownpierce's appearance is that of a laughing, eye crossed Monster Clown, and he has the PVP skills and personality to back that up.
- No Blood for Phlebotinum: The main source of conflict comes from being able to steal each other's hearts, which is the most valuable resource.
- Stat Death: To add additional punishment to players losing their hearts, if someone gets to zero hearts, they are banned from the server. After Season 1, the only way to get them back is to have someone craft a revival beacon, which requires a large amount of rare materials, such as Totems of Undying and Netherite.
- Switching P.O.V.: Some members stream their perspective and others only upload their perspective on YouTube, allowing viewers to watch whoever they like.
- The Smurfette Principle: Mid was the only female member in Seasons 3 and 4.
- Video-Game Lives: The amount of hearts someone has is equivalent to their amount of lives. Each member starts with 10 and can have a number of hearts ranging from 1-20. However, if they lose their last heart, they get banned from the server.
- Yet Another Stupid Death: There are many deaths that are from preventable causes. For example, Zam once died from fall damage in Season 4 because he thought he had his origin abilities of a goat, which does not take fall damage, from another server.
Season 1
- Comically Small Bribe: ParrotX2 offers TheTerrain a single stone axe if the latter lets him kill him 5 times.
- Defeating the Cheating Opponent: After facing off against Mapicc and his team multiple times, with him escaping under more and more suspicious circumstances every time, the Jolly Ranchers (Parrot's team) finally get a confirmed kill on him during the Final Battle, just as it's confirmed that Mapicc was using admin commands to assist him and his allies in battle.
Season 2
- Bullying a Dragon: Immediately after getting fully geared, Parrot's team decides to immediately target PrinceZam's most powerful ally: the PVPer Clownpierce. Clownpierce promptly demonstrates his immense combat prowess by soloing all 4 of them by himself, forcing them to abandon their attack. Fortunately, Rekrap was able to sneak back into the fight with an invisibility potion to retrieve his and Spoke's stuff, while Vortex was able to escape safely, leaving roshambo as the only person who lost all of their items.
- Comically Small Bribe: Exaggerated. While trying to get Rek's armor back from Clownpierce, Parrot tries to get Clownpierce to offer 4 hearts back in exchange for 3 hearts. Clownpierce obviously refuses that deal.
- The Con: After getting their butts beaten in by PrinceZam, Clownpierce, and Leowook during a base raid, Parrot's team decided that, to get their items back, they needed to start a business trading items to people who needed them, called Eimacon. Spoke, despite being on their team, attempted to mess up their first delivery to Clownpierce, distracting Parrot from completing the deal. Despite this, Clownpierce, feeling merciful, decided to honor their efforts by completing the trade, allowing Parrot and his friends to gain back their gear, equalizing the balance of power.
- Before then, during a previous delivery, Clownpierce took the opportunity to threaten Rekrap into giving up his armor, then imprisoning him inside of a cage hanging inside the M.O.B's main base. Rekrap, however, managed to escape by mining out the floor from underneath Clownpierce, causing Clownpierce to fall down and get injured, giving him enough space to escape the building by mining. After getting sufficiently far away by using an invisibility potion, Parrot and the other Poggies came up with an idea for how to get Rekrap's armor back. They would come and offer up a new trade of hearts for Clownpierce in exchange for Rekrap's armor, but secretly have Yeah_Jaron be the deliverer alongside Parrot instead of Rekrap himself, while secretly using firework stars as a substitute for actual hearts (since firework stars were repurposed and retextured into extra hearts). Yeah_Jaron would sell the ruse by going in invisible, preventing Clownpierce from telling via their nametag, and also act like Rek's statements about himself when in the presence of Clown. Once Clown recieved the fake hearts, Spoke would pull a ender pearl stasis chamber to teleport Jaron and Parrot away safely to prevent him from losing the armor from the deal. Successfully offering up the fake hearts, Rek's team successfully bamboozle Clownpierce, allowing them to steal the armor free of consequence.
- Season Finale: 1,017 Withers VS Minecraft SMP...
and the various videos set during it. Long story short, Parrot dared Spoke, after finally killing him for his crimes against humanity, to do his "1000 [X] Versus..." series, but with Withers this time, targeting the M.O.B. After gathering the materials to do this, Spoke, Parrot, and the rest of the Poggies promptly unleashed the withers on top of the M.O.B. with them in their base, harassing them until Spoke managed to place down 1,017 all across the server before killing himself with the last wither atop Spoke mountain. The server promptly descended into chaos, with members of all the factions present struggling to survive(excluding Clownpierce, who managed to kill several Poggies and Withers in the confusion), leading to Parrot officially shutting down the server and ending the season. - Trash the Set: During the Season Finale, Spoke and the other Poggies targeted pretty much every single build on the server, including some of their own. They destroyed pretty much all of the M.O.B's bases, as well as the M.O.B tower and the mushroom island, while flooding places such as spawn and The End with withers top the bottom, leaving craters everywhere. After the Poggies signed off by jumping to their deaths, the M.O.B and others were left with a scarred world, and were forced to leave the server as well.
Season 3
- Foil: Zam and Spoke; Zam wanted to save the server by keeping everyone alive, while Spoke wanted the opposite — he wanted the server to end by banning everyone.
- Poor Communication Kills: After getting betrayed by Parrot to Clownpierce, Rekrap manages to join Zam and Ashwagg's team. However, after some time, Parrot gets back into contact with Rekrap, asking for his help in betraying Clownpierce right back by bed bombing him in the nether. Rekrap agrees to help, but, being worried about whether or not it was a trap for him, forgets to tell his new teammates. Thus, when his team catches him working together with Parrot, they immediately assume Rekrap turned traitor, attacking them both, putting their plan on hold and forcing them to Run or Die.
- Special Guest: Tubbo, being a much larger YouTuber especially at the time, appears as a special guest for a day and becomes a pivotal part of the start of the finale.
Season 4
- After the End: With Spoke opening the wormhole and granting Mapicc and Zam powers to cause mass damage to the server, the world was left in ruin with the remaining Lifesteal members fighting for their lives amongst the chaos.
- The Alcatraz: Team Awesome (primarily Mapicc, Ro, Zam) built an inescapable prison where they kept other members captive.
- All for Nothing: Zam betrayed Team Awesome and the Eclipse Federation due to them keeping exploitive items only to willingly join the team at the end of the season that was keeping exploitive items.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Vitalasy's video "This was my worst mistake...", Vitalasy takes a moment to break the fourth wall in order to acknowledge the emotional effects that the events on the server have had on him as a real person.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Zam betrayed nearly all of his teams, going from betraying Team Awesome to betraying the Eclipse Federation then betraying the Solar Union. While he didn't betray the final team he was on (during doomsweek and the wormhole), he did consider betraying them but decided against it since the season was ending in just a couple of days. Zam also betrayed Pangi when Pangi appointed himself as king, but this betrayal was not as serious as the aforementioned ones.
- Downer Ending: During Doomsweek and the opening of the wormhole, the Three Heart Trio (Bacon, Planet, Jaron) and Parrot were hunted by those who started Doomsweek, Spoke, Mapicc, and Zam. There was help on both sides from people who came in through the wormhole, but the Three Heart Trio and Parrot struggled to survive against the other overpowered side. With less than one minute remaining until their victory, Planet was killed and banned from the server due to losing all of their hearts, resulting in the exploitive team winning. With so little time remaining on the clock, it was heartbreaking for members and the audience alike that the Three Heart Trio and Parrot team lost.
- Duel to the Death: Pangi and others on his team fight against the Leviathan and allies due to the latter disagreeing with Pangi declaring himself as king.
- History Repeats: Zam betrays 3/4 of the teams he was a part of.
- Kill the God: Zam, when betraying the Eclipse Federation, decides that he needs to make his leaving absolute by killing Vitalasy while catching him off-guard, who has positioned himself as a god on the server.
- Long Game: Spoke spends months lying to ParrotX2 and pretending they are friends in order to trick him into giving him absolute power.
- Meaningful Name: There are a couple instances of this:
- Ro came up with the name "Medusa" to name the anonymous person turning buildings into obsidian at spawn, much like how Medusa would turn her victims to stone. Along with Medusa, the team "Perseus" was created to take down Medusa like the story goes in Classical Mythology.
- "Leviathan", also a team name by Ro, refers to the book by Thomas Hobbes that advocated for a strong and sovereign government. The Leviathan (at the time Mapicc and Ro) attempted to rule over the server with this government structure in mind.
- The Solar Union is meant to contrast the name of the Eclipse Federation, who was their enemy.
- Never Going Back to Prison: While provoking Vitalasy, Planet becomes cornered in the prison Vitalasy made. He is killed a couple times and goes from being annoyed to fearful, shakily saying that he "can't have this happen again". This is referring to when he was put in a prison earlier in the season because of Team Awesome where the whole event caused him and his team a lot of stress.
- No Man Should Have This Power: Vitalasy is very aware of the exploit that allows players to become invincible and does not want anyone else to have it because of its abilities.
- The Only One I Trust: Mapicc and Ro were very dependent on each other and only trusted the other for a while, including events like The End fight and most of the Medusa arc.
- Passive Rescue: Bacon rescued his imprisoned teammates along with the other prisoners by having no set spawn resulting in him being able to spawn inside the prison undetected. When inside, he gave the prisoners chorus fruit, invisibility potions, and an ender pearl in order to escape which they did successfully.
- Perpetual Poverty: Invoked. In Lifesteal SMP, where hearts are currency, Planetlord makes it his mission to go as long as possible on only three hearts out of a maximum of twenty, leaving him very poor and weak compared to others, and succeeds at this mission until the end.
- Plot Device: The Dragon Egg was Red's most prized possession that he left Mid borrow only for Mid to hide it away and begin a hunt for it through an ARG. Red's desire for the Dragon Egg back caused him and others (both on his team and against him) to search for the egg.
- Poor Communication Kills: One of the most prevalent tropes in Season 4. This includes:
- Zam stealing shulkers full of exploitive items due to his fear of communicating with Mapicc and Ro.
- Zam and Vitalasy's many discussions/arguments causing Zam to feel that he's not able to make his point and betraying Vitalasy by Jaron killing him.
- Mapicc and Ro's arguments not reaching either side when making The End a "paradise", resulting in Mapicc turning on Ro and killing him.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: During Doomsweek, there was a team set on standing against the exploiters with godly powers: Bacon, Planet, Jaron, and Parrot. However, 3/4 of this team was known as the "Three Heart Trio" who was known for constantly being on a low amount of hearts. In contrast, Parrot (who was not a member of the Three Heart Trio) recently completed his quest of obtaining 100 hearts (not applied hearts; he displayed the 100 hearts in a secret hourglass structure).
- Regretful Traitor: Every time Zam would betray a team he was on, he would either immediately or later feel regretful about it.
- Relationship Sabotage: While Zam was teamed with the Eclipse Federation, Planet repeatedly caused Zam to question his relationship with Subz and Vitalasy, especially Vitalasy. Though, Planet was well-intentioned since he knew more than Zam in what the Eclipse Federation was capable of.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In Season 4, Ro names the anonymous person turning buildings into obsidian at spawn "Medusa", as an allusion to how Medusa would turn her victims to stone. The team "Perseus" is then created to take down Medusa, like the story goes in Classical Mythology.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mapicc continuously and aggressively went after Zam, attempting and often succeeding in killing him to enact revenge for betraying him and Ro.
- Snow Means Death: Zam lived in a snow biome after his betrayal of Team Awesome, where he died multiple times and experienced many paranoid episodes.
- Threesome Subtext: While the Eclipse Federation was whole (Subz, Vitalasy, Zam), it was heavily implied that the three of them were in a romantic relationship.
- Was It All a Lie?: Gradually, Zam learns that the Eclipse Federation (primarily Vitalasy) was keeping secrets from him. This caused him to question the foundations of his relationships with the team.
- Wham Episode: After Zam betrays Team Awesome, he quickly develops intense paranoia due to Mapicc stalking and killing him at what was supposed to be his hidden castle.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Leviathan (Mapicc, Ro, Parrot) kill Zam after Zam helped them in the fight against Pangi and his allies.
Season 5
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Zam will occasionally mention needing to write signs, which (depending on the context) can be a reference to when he heavily used signs in Season 4 to help him through breakdowns.
- Irony: The team Gucci Gang is named after the clothing brand Gucci, which is known for being very expensive and owned by the wealthy. However, Gucci Gang is regularly broke and lacking proper armor and fighting equipment.
