Disabling The Respawn Screen

Hi! I'm creating a spectator Plugin, when a player dies, its changing them to gamemode 3 and says a message. i use entity damage by entity because you can't cancel the death event, but you can cancel the damage event, the problem is that the players don't drop their items, so i can't use entity damage. so what do i do? because i'm really confused XD I had the idea of disabling the respawn screen but i don't think its possible, so is there a way to disable the respawn screen and still have the item drops? please help me! Thx

 

Umm.. if you want a thing like they cannot respawn, I'd rather just ban them for a certain amount of time.. Idk

 

listen to entitydeath
if the entity is a player
set their health to 20

you don't need to cancel any event

 

@schwabfl 's method actually works And after putting their health to 20, put them in gamemode 3 (your wish) and put them in this "spectating" mode.

@RoBaMe

 

If you don't understand what @schwabfl said here's the code.

Code:

@EventHandler
    public void onPlayerDeath(PlayerDeathEvent e)
    {
        Player player = e.getEntity();
        if(e.getEntity() instanceof Player)
        {
            player.setHealth(20);
        }
    }