📦 Version 1.1.0 — The Index

This release introduces a comprehensive in-game Index system, upgrades the underlying engine to Paper 1.21.11, and brings significant quality-of-life improvements to shop automation and player data management.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Minecraft Version: Minecraft 1.19 is no longer supported. This version is built specifically for modern environments.
• Java Version: This update requires Java 21 or higher. Please ensure your server startup script or hosting panel is updated.

🧪 Experimental Features

The following features are disabled by default and can be enabled in the config.yml. Use with caution as they may impact performance or stability:

• Cooldown Animations: Visual cooldown animations for abilities. (enable-cooldown-animation)
• Advanced Hammer Sorting: Sort blocks by distance or block face (useful for specific mining behaviors, but may increase CPU load). (hammer-sort-by-distance,hammer-sort-by-face)

🚀 New Features

• In-Game Index System: A searchable GUI for Mobs, Blocks, Bosses, and Altars. Includes controls for hidden entries and sorted listings. use with /index in the future will also allow admins to edit drops

• Targeted Data Commands: Admins can now target specific players for load, save, and reset operations.

• MythicMobs Support: Native name lookup support for MythicMobs.

• Face-Aware Mining: Improved hammer mechanics that intelligently account for the block face being hit.

• Enhanced Profile Viewer: Off-hand items now render correctly in the Player Viewer GUI.

• Advanced Rewards: Added support for command-based drops and range-based drop logic.

🛠️ Improvements

• Platform Update: Fully updated to Paper 1.21.11.

• Config Engine: Migrated to BoostedYAML for more robust and flexible configuration management.

• CI/CD: Updated build pipeline to use JDK 21 and publish build artifacts automatically.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Data Stability: Improved player data caching and resolved inconsistent save behaviors.

• Null Safety: Extensive "null check" pass across shop and skill modules to prevent random crashes.

• Shop Logic: * Resolved issues with shop syncing.

• Entity Tracking: Fixed damage credit tracking for spawned living entities.

• Validation: Skill configurations now skip invalid entries instead of failing entirely.

• Prevented duplicate portable-shop assignments to a single item.

• Fixed errors caused by missing stat entries via safe-retrieval logic.