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Group Loot (Need / Greed)

When several players team up, EliteMobs can distribute gear through a Need / Greed voting system instead of giving each drop directly to one player. This is the familiar MMO-style group-loot mechanic: each item is rolled among the eligible players, and the winner gets it soulbound to them.

When group loot triggers​

There are two ways a vote can start:

  • Party loot: when at least two members of the same party are online, in the same world, and within sharedProgressRange of the defeated Elite (128 blocks by default), normal Elite equipment, special Elite gear, and eligible custom items enter one vote for that party. Nearby members can participate even if they did not land the killing hit. Coins and Elite Scrolls remain personal.
  • Difficulty-specific dungeon loot: a custom item with a matching difficultyID inside an instanced dungeon uses the original dungeon-wide vote for the boss's combat contributors.

If fewer than two eligible players remain when a party item is being added, that item falls back to the normal personal delivery path. An already-created party vote can continue with one eligible player after somebody leaves; an already-created dungeon pool is distributed immediately when only one eligible player remains. Instanced-dungeon boss lockouts are applied before a player is admitted to a vote.

Party votes can collect drops from multiple Elites during the same roll session. Eligibility is saved separately for each item, so someone who arrives later only sees and rolls on drops for which they were nearby and eligible.

Voting on loot​

Players open the vote with /em loot or by clicking the prompt in chat. The command sets no permission node, so anyone can run it — the elitemobs.loot.command node declared in plugin.yml is never actually checked.

The menu has two columns:

  • Greed (left) — the default state. Items sit here until someone claims them. If you only want an item should nobody else need it, leave it on the greed side.
  • Need (right) — click an item to move it to your Need list. Everyone in the group is notified when you mark or unmark an item as Need.

The menu shows up to 20 items per page and adds previous/next arrows for larger pools. If several independent loot sessions overlap, running /em loot again cycles through them.

The normal voting window ends after 60 seconds without a new item. A new party drop refreshes that inactivity window, but lootVoteMaximumLifetimeSeconds in Party.yml puts a hard limit on the complete party session (120 seconds by default, minimum 60). Marking and unmarking items does not extend either timer; click an item in the greed column to need it, then click it in the need column to drop your claim.

How items are awarded​

When the timer runs out, each item is rolled independently:

  • If one or more players marked it as Need, the item is randomly awarded to one of those players.
  • If nobody needed it, it is randomly awarded among all currently online players eligible for that item (the greed roll).

The winner receives the item directly into their inventory (it drops at their feet if the inventory is full), the item is soulbound to them, and everyone still active in that vote sees a message announcing who got it. A player who logs out or leaves the party is removed from that party's active vote. If nobody eligible remains online, the item drops at the defeated Elite's saved location when that world is still loaded.

Command and permission​

CommandPermissionDefaultDescription
/em loot(none set)--Opens the group-loot Need/Greed menu for your current pending loot

If you run /em loot with no loot to vote on, EliteMobs tells you there is nothing to vote on.