Exemptions & Ignore

Two permissions let specific players or staff escape the penalty, each with a per-world variant.

Permission	Effect
deathpenalty.exempt	The player dies normally but loses nothing, and sees the exempt message.
deathpenalty.ignore	The plugin does nothing at all for this player — no penalty, no message, no stat tracking.

Per-world variants

Append a world name to scope the bypass to that world only:

deathpenalty.exempt.<world>      # e.g. deathpenalty.exempt.world_nether
deathpenalty.ignore.<world>

So deathpenalty.exempt.spawn_world exempts a player only in spawn_world, while they’re penalised everywhere else.

exempt vs ignore

	exempt	ignore
Penalty applied	No	No
Message shown	Yes (“You kept everything…”)	No
Counts toward stats	Yes (a death)	No

Use exempt for “this area/player is safe” (still visible to players), and ignore for “pretend the plugin isn’t installed for them” (e.g. staff in creative).

Ops

settings:
  ignore-ops: false

Set ignore-ops: true to make the plugin treat all server operators as if they had deathpenalty.ignore — handy so admins testing in-game aren’t penalised.

For region-based exemptions (rather than per-player), use the WorldGuard flag.