Player is not kicked when they die on hardcore

[Otsel]

On death, if player is set to hardcore mode, they should be kicked and subsequently banned, showing the admin-defined hardcore ban message.

death:
{difficultymanagement::%victim%} is "hardcore"
kick player due to "{@Hardcore Ban Message}"
ban victim

This event does not successfully trigger on the latest versions of Skript.

[Otsel]

Updating methods in line with latest Skript event docs to increase specificity.

For example, altering "death:" to "on death of player:" may be required based on reference materials to ensure the death event is applied to the player as the target for this event listener.

There's also a use of victim expression that is unnecessarily used interchangeably with player, so we can update this as well to increase specificity for event listener.

Finally, according to Skript intellisense, "Ban" in the original use was not being executed, as Kick was used instead. You cannot Kick and then execute Ban, Ban implies [and kick] in latest documentation, so we can truncate this effect to one line.

on death of player:
player is "hardcore"
ban player due to "{@Hardcore Ban Message}"

Still needs testing, but Skript Intellisense is happy with this syntax.

[Otsel]

While preliminary fix seems promising and approved by Skript linting, I'm not testing at this time and holding up deployment. Anyone is welcome to test at their own risk here.

[InyoEndo]

Dont think it works. Tried as Bedrock through GeyserMC onto server and plain Java connection to server. Made sure I was not OP at the time. Didnt kick me from game nor ban me.

However, it did ban a guy who's username is hardcore:

https://mcuuid.net/?q=2e583af9-96cd-4aea-98a2-8615f1b03b0a

banned-players.json
[
{
"uuid": "2e583af9-96cd-4aea-98a2-8615f1b03b0a",
"name": "hardcore",
"created": "2026-01-18 21:52:50 +1100",
"source": "Skript ban effect",
"expires": "forever",
"reason": "§4§lGame Over"
}
]

baned-ips.json

[
{
"ip": "hardcore",
"created": "2026-01-18 21:52:49 +1100",
"source": "Skript ban effect",
"expires": "forever",
"reason": "§4§lGame Over"
}
]