Including this library in your addon will automatically

• Have the player join the unified death notification channel
• Register the player for death notifications. The addon which includes this library needs to implement a function to handle death notifications

Only for classic era and Hardcore servers.

• ChatThrottleLib

1. Copy this repo into your addons directory. Something like <youraddonroot>/Libs/DeathNotificationLib/

2. In <youraddon>.toc, include DeathNotificationLib.lua somewhere early in file loading. Note, this requires ChatThrottleLib and the included npc_to_id_classic./lua/id_to_npc_classic.lua. E.g.

Libs/ChatThrottleLib.lua Libs/DeathNotificationLib/npc_to_id_classic.lua Libs/DeathNotificationLib/id_to_npc_classic.lua Libs/DeathNotificationLib/DeathNotificationLib.lua <youraddon>.lua

3. Register a function to hook onto death notification events (use DeathNotificationLib_HookOnNewEntry). Here are the fields

-- DeathNotificationLib_HookOnNewEntry(function(_player_data, _checksum, _peer_report, _in_guild) ... end)
-- @param _player_data metadata for player entry.
-- 	@field name Player's name
-- 	@field guild Player's guild
-- 	@field source_id ID of creature that killed the player
-- 	@field class_id Class ID of the player
-- 	@field level Player's level
-- 	@field instance_id Instance that player died in. Nil if player did not die in an instance
-- 	@field map_id Zone ID that player died in. Nil if player died in an instance instead
-- 	@field map_pos Map coordinates within zone specified by map_id, nil if player died in an instance instead
-- 	@field date Date that the player died.  Unix Epoch.
-- 	@field last_words Player's last words.
-- @param _checksum A checksum for the player data
-- @param _peer_report Number of guildmates that verified the death
-- @param _in_guild Whether the player is in your guild

You can register DeathNotificationLib_HookOnNewEntrySecure instead, which will only notify when 2 guildmates to whomever died, acknowledge the death.

• Use the _peer_report field for added verification. This number is the number of guildmates that verify the death within 5 seconds of the initial alert. I recommend not using this to block alerts unless fake notifications become an issue.
• There is a 5 second delay between death and notification. This is a grace period to transmit last words.