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# Combat Rules

Config file: `modules/combat-rules.yml`

## Combat tag

```yaml
combat-tag:
  enabled: true
  duration-seconds: 15
  blocked-actions:
    teleport: true
    commands: [spawn, home, tpa, tpaccept]
    logout:
      enabled: true
      punishment: kill
      commands: []
```

Both players are tagged "in combat" the moment either one deals or receives PvP damage. While tagged:

* Teleporting is blocked if `blocked-actions.teleport` is `true`.
* Any command in `blocked-actions.commands` (without the leading `/`) is blocked.
* Logging out while tagged triggers `blocked-actions.logout.punishment`: `kill` (the player dies on disconnect) and/or the configured `commands` are run as console.

Fires `AtomCombatCombatTagEvent` on tag (see [Internal Events](/atomcombat/reference/events.md)), which the [Effects](/atomcombat/modules/effects.md) module uses to show an action bar countdown.

## Grace periods

```yaml
grace-period:
  enabled: true
  new-player:
    enabled: true
    duration-seconds: 300
  respawn:
    enabled: true
    duration-seconds: 10
```

Full PvP immunity for brand-new players on their first join, and for a short window after every respawn.

## PvP, keep-inventory, keep-experience

```yaml
pvp:
  default: true
  respect-worldguard-flag: true
  worlds: {}
  regions: {}
keep-inventory:
  default: false
  worlds: {}
  regions: {}
keep-experience:
  default: false
  worlds: {}
  regions: {}
```

Each of these three rules has a server-wide default plus per-world and per-WorldGuard-region overrides. `pvp.respect-worldguard-flag` additionally lets a WorldGuard region's own PVP flag block PvP even where AtomCombat's own rule would allow it.

## Notifications

```yaml
notifications:
  enabled: true
```

Controls whether players get a chat message when tagged, when a blocked action is denied, or when PvP/grace-period rules stop an attack. This is independent of the action bar countdown from the [Effects](/atomcombat/modules/effects.md) module.


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