🚀 FEATURES

• Configurable Element Toggles: Added new toggle options inside config.yml to completely control the visibility and loading of standard colors, gradients, and patterns.
• Dynamic Content Loading: Rewrote the color engine to conditionally load elements depending on your active config settings, reducing unnecessary memory allocation.

🐛 FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

• Automatic Config Self-Healing: Implemented a failsafe mechanism that automatically re-adds any missing keys or sections to config.yml without overriding your existing settings.
• Enhanced Performance: Optimizing configuration checks ensures smoother server startup times when parsing active formatting modules.

🚀 FEATURES

• EssentialsC Compatibility: Full formatting integration added for servers running EssentialsC.
• Event-Priority Controls: Added a new event-priority option to the configuration file, allowing you to fine-tune how ChatColors interacts with other chat-altering plugins.
• Late-Bind Config Option: Introduced a late-bind toggle to delay plugin initialization, ensuring perfect compatibility with late-loading chat management suites.
• Beta: Emojis from Nexo should work.

🐛 FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

• Enhanced Debugging: The plugin now explicitly logs the active listener priority on startup, making it much easier to isolate chat conflicts.
• Updated FastStats for better reporting on errors.
• Documentation Overhaul: The official wiki has been fully updated! Check out the improved command details, permission tables, and config setup at https://busybeedev.net/docs/chatcolor/introduction

🚀 Features & Enhancements

• Smart Chat & Event Priority Handling:
  • Updated config.yml to recommend the MONITOR event priority, significantly improving out-of-the-box compatibility with EssentialsX.
  • Implemented automatic priority adjustment logic to seamlessly handle EssentialsChat compatibility without breaking formatting.

🚀 Features & Enhancements

• Advanced Entity Protection:
  • Added full protection for Infernal Mobs and RareMob metadata to keep your rare spawns safe from entity clears.
  • Persistent named entities are now automatically protected by default.
• ModDex Integration: Added comprehensive configuration and logic checks to protect entities within the mobdex namespace.
• GriefPrevention3D Integration: Implemented deep integration featuring lifecycle management and claim-aware entity protection. Your entity-clearing configuration now fully respects GriefPrevention3D claims and subdivisions!
• Documentation Update: Updated the README to reflect new commands, configuration options, and the updated Java 21 requirement.

📦 Supported Plugin Links

We have expanded our ecosystem to support the following plugins:

• MobDex
• GriefPrevention3D
• Infernal Mobs

⚙️ System Requirements

• Java 21 or higher is now required.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Internal refactoring: Introduced a new internal helper method (isFastInv) to streamline how the plugin detects custom menus.
• Enhanced Stability: Improved safety checks to prevent rare null-pointer exceptions when players interact with non-plugin inventories.
• Code Clean-up: Optimized inventory type handling, making future menu updates faster and easier to implement.

🛠️ Fixes & Refinements

• Enhanced Stacked Entity Protection: Refined and optimized the internal checks for custom naming and custom NBT tags on stacked entities. This ensures that unique, named, or custom-tagged entities are more accurately identified and protected from accidental merging or clearing.
• Folia Fixes Fixed the issue with folia not running on the correct thread for world entity checks. Please update to the newest version.

🚀 New Features

• FoliaUpdateNotifier: Added a dedicated update checker and logger for Folia server environments. The plugin will now automatically check for and log available updates directly in the console, ensuring your Folia server stays up-to-date with the latest performance and stability improvements.

📝 Note for Server Admins

If you are upgrading from an older version, your old gui.yml and players.yml have automatically been migrated to the new /configs/ folder. You can safely delete any orphaned colors.yml or patterns.yml files in the root plugin directory!

🌟 New Features & Enhancements

• Next-Gen Server Support: Full compatibility added for Folia (multi-threaded servers) and Canvas. Expect seamless, lag-free color formatting no matter what engine your server runs on.
• Overhauled Color Systems: We’ve introduced a new custom asset system. Managing your Gradients and Patterns is now entirely separated, meaning more unique and stable chat colors are coming your way soon.

🛠️ Menu & GUI Refurbishing

• Snappier Menus: The entire Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been rewritten from scratch. Color menus will load instantly with zero click delay.
• Unified Localizations: Menus now adapt much cleaner to server-wide chat styles and translations. No more broken color tags or raw text bleeding into menu titles.

📂 Behind-the-Scenes & Cleanup

• Streamlined Storage: We packed up and moved your player data and menu layouts into a brand new, organized configs/ directory.
• Resource Cleanup: Stripped out ancient, leftover configuration files (colors.yml, patterns.yml layouts) and cleaned up unused language files to give the plugin a lighter disk footprint and faster boot times.

⚡ Optimization & Fixes

• Faster Sweeps: Miscellaneous entity processing is now handled more efficiently by targeting and scheduling chunk processing at specific locations rather than sweeping blindly.
• Reliable Scheduling: Refactored internal timers to resolve some scheduling inconsistencies, ensuring automated tasks and performance gates trigger exactly when they are supposed to.

📊 Performance Tracking & Analytics

• Dual Metrics Frameworks: Fully integrated both bStats and FastStats to provide highly accurate, real-time analytics for server health and usage.
• Dedicated Analytics Managers: Added BStatsManager and FastStatsManager to manage background tracking streams independently.
• Lifecycle Integration: Updated the core Obfeco engine to initialize, supervise, and safely manage both metrics ecosystems throughout the plugin's runtime lifecycle.

📊 Performance Monitoring & Analytics

• Advanced Metrics Engine: Integrated the FastStats tracking framework to significantly enhance real-time analytics monitoring.
• Backend Modernization: Added FastStatsManager to handle extended telemetry data and replaced legacy direct metric calls with a dedicated BStatsManager implementation.
• Expanded Metrics Support: Implemented native support for custom plugin metrics tracking to monitor performance trends more closely over time.

📊 Advanced Performance Monitoring

• Enhanced FastStats Support: Fully updated the internal metrics system to utilize the FastStats framework alongside BStats for real-time performance analytics.
• Dedicated Analytics Managers: Added BStatsManager and FastStatsManager to handle background performance tracking seamlessly.
• Secure Management: Integrated configurable properties for plugin ID and token management, allowing safe and customizable connection tracking.

📊 Performance Monitoring & Analytics

• Dedicated Metrics Managers: Added BStatsManager and FastStatsManager to handle extended data tracking, giving you more robust, real-time insights into server performance and health.
• Framework Integration: Fully integrated the BStats and FastStats metrics frameworks for enhanced backend monitoring.

⚙️ Configuration & Features

• Mob Limiter Expansion: Added a new ignore-spawners option to the mob limiter configuration, giving server administrators finer control over which entities are targeted by clear cycles.

🛠️ Backend & Performance

• Internal Package Refactor: Updated internal package paths to net.busybee.clearlagenhanced for better consistency, improved project structure, and modernized build configurations.
• Dependency Updates: Updated internal project versions, compiler source/target compatibility, and shaded library paths to optimize overall resource usage.
• Metrics Integration: Integrated BStats and FastStats metrics frameworks to significantly enhance real-time performance monitoring, lag tracking, and server health analytics.

🌟 What's New?

• MiniMessage Tag Support: Added full support for modern MiniMessage formatting tags!
  • Note: Players will need the new chatcolor.minimessage permission node to use these tags in chat.
• Console Cleanup Feature: Added a new clean-console option in your config.yml. When enabled, it dynamically strips legacy color codes from logger outputs, keeping your server console crisp and readable.
• Smart Integration Detector: Added an IntegrationChecker that automatically scans for active DiscordSRV and LPC plugins on startup, printing helpful setup and configuration guidance straight to your console.

🛠️ Enhancements & Fixes

• Refactored Color Utilities: Built a much sturdier backend handler to bridge legacy color codes and modern MiniMessage components. Includes under-the-hood automatic conversion utilities (translateLegacyToMiniMessage) and stricter text safety checks.
• Streamlined PlaceholderAPI Integration: Completely reworked our placeholders for better stability and formatting logic.
  • Reorganized the placeholder structures for better clarity.
  • Added a dedicated %color_legacy% placeholder.
  • Improved stability when handling null or empty message inputs.
• Paper Server Optimization: Modified the ChatListener to bypass redundant last-message tracking on Paper-based servers, saving processing overhead.
• Compatibility Recommendation: Added a configuration comment recommending that server owners set their event-priority to HIGHEST for seamless operation alongside LPC or DiscordSRV.
• Stability Fix: Fixed a critical initialization bug caused by a missing structural brace in the main initialization logic, ensuring smooth reloads and clean server starts.

⚙️ Changes & Improvements

🗺️ Minecraft 1.21 - 26.x Support

The plugin has been officially updated to support Minecraft 1.21 - 26.x! Enjoy all the latest block updates and features with full compatibility.

🛡️ Exploits & Interaction Fixes

• Duplication & Ghost Fluid Fix: Fixed a critical bug where PlayerBucketFillEvent and PlayerBucketEmptyEvent weren't being properly cancelled. Infinite buckets will now behave exactly as intended without causing vanilla fluid glitches.
• Permissions & Messages Overhaul: Revised and streamlined permission nodes and in-game messages for a cleaner, more modern experience.
• Under-the-Hood Cleanup: Stripped out a ton of legacy code, unused configuration updaters, and old registry logic to make the plugin lighter and faster.

💻 Developer & Internal Notes

• Updated LandsAPI dependency group and version in pom.xml.
• Updated the Wiki

🎨 Group-Based Default Colors

Server admins can now define specific default chat colors based on player ranks or groups!

• Automatic Assignment: When joining or resetting your color, you'll start with the color assigned to your group.
• Priority Logic: If you belong to multiple groups, the system intelligently selects the highest priority color for you.

🖋️ Enhanced Chat Formatting (MiniMessage)

We’ve refined advanced formatting to keep the chat clean and secure:

• Smart Escaping: Players without MiniMessage permissions will no longer accidentally trigger formatting tags.
• Permission-Based Styling: High-tier formatting is now strictly tied to the chatcolor.minimessage permission.

🖥️ UI & Menu Upgrades

The Color Selection GUI has been refreshed for better navigation:

• Current Selection Highlighting: Your active color now glows and displays a "Selected" status in the menu.
• Improved Permissions: Accessing menus is smoother with updated default permission nodes.

🛠️ Internal Improvements

• Reliability: Added automated tests for consistent color and formatting application.
• Performance: Optimized configuration handling for faster in-game response times.

Updated for 26.x+

Updated for 26.x+

Version 2026.5.0

📦 Major UI Overhaul

We’ve completely stripped out the legacy GUI system and replaced it with FastInv. This transition makes all in-game menus snappier and significantly reduces the plugin's resource footprint.

• Performance Boost: Removed GUIManager and GUIListener in favor of a more streamlined event handling system.
• Menu Updates: MainMenu and ColorSelector have been fully migrated to the new framework.
• Native Compatibility: Switched to native Bukkit materials for menu items, ensuring better long-term stability.

🌈 Enhanced Formatting & MiniMessage

Advanced text styling is now easier than ever with full MiniMessage integration.

• MiniMessage Support: New serialization logic allows for modern gradients and hex styling.
• PAPI Expansion: Two new parameters added to PlaceholderAPI hooks:
  • message_mm
  • mm_
• Flexible Styling: Improved handling for complex message scenarios, giving you more control over how text looks in-game.

⚙️ Technical Refinement

• Core Update: The plugin now targets Minecraft API 1.21.
• Lightweight Build: Removed the XSeries dependency to keep the .jar size small and efficient.
• Documentation: Configuration and PlaceholderAPI guides on the website have been updated to cover these new features.

Note: This update includes internal refactoring. If you are a developer hooking into our previous GUI classes, please refer to the updated documentation regarding FastInv.

🚀 NEW FEATURES

• Database Support: Full support for MariaDB and MySQL has been added! Server owners can now link their own databases in config.yml for better stability.
• Detailed Logging: Re-introduced HStats metrics with a new "Verbose" mode toggle in the config for those who want deeper insight into plugin stats.

✨ QUALITY OF LIFE & PERFORMANCE

• Smooth Data Migration: Your existing collector data will now automatically migrate to the database system—no manual setup required.
• Better Reliability: Refined the internal logic for radius validation and collector cleanup, ensuring items are picked up exactly where they should be.
• Auto-Sync: The plugin now performs periodic database synchronization to keep your data safe and consistently backed up.
• Performance Refactor: Improved the way collectors are saved and handled behind the scenes to reduce server load and overhead.

To view the full change log, please visit Autopickup Changelog

This update represents a major structural shift in how AutoPickup handles your data. We’ve moved away from flat-file storage to a robust database system to ensure better performance and reliability.

🚀 New Features & Improvements

• Database Integration: Added full support for MySQL and SQLite. Your preferences are now stored more securely and retrieved faster.
• Enhanced Configuration: The config.yml has been redesigned with a dedicated database section.
• Self-Healing Configs: The new ConfigValidator now automatically repairs missing or broken configuration nodes on the fly.
• Performance Optimization: Refactored the PlayerDataManager and simplified driver loading for a smaller memory footprint.
• Logging Upgrade: Switched to SLF4J for cleaner, more professional console logging and troubleshooting.
• Updated Analytics: Integrated the latest HStats to help us better understand plugin usage and performance.

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Version Bump: Moved to version 2026.4.3.
• Data Migration: Please note that data.yml is no longer used. Data is now handled via the configured database provider.
• Refactored Commands: Internal command logic has been rewritten for better responsiveness.
• Migration logs: https://mclo.gs/c1ReQKR

Spark Usage

• Autopickup now only uses 0.26% of the thread. While we aim to keep improving this, it is a big drop from what it was. If you run into any issues, please join the BusyBee Discord and share your spark reports with us.

Standard Disclaimer: As this update changes how data is saved, we recommend backing up your existing configuration before updating.

Changelog

• Added support to Mythic Mobs
• Updated CLE Wiki
• Fixed placeholders

This update focuses on better integration for our Citizens NPCs, ensuring they stay safe, protected, and permanent!

CHangelog

• Protected NPCs: All Citizens NPCs are now officially recognized by our protection systems. They are now immune to accidental player damage and environmental hazards in protected zones.
• No More "Disappearing" Shopkeepers: We’ve updated our entity-clearing logic. While we still clear out lag-causing mobs, the system now skips over NPCs entirely so they won't accidentally be deleted during server cleanups.
• Improved Stability: General behind-the-scenes tweaks to make sure NPCs and protection settings play nice together.

🛠️ What’s New?

• Update Notifications: You'll now receive a notification when a new version of the plugin is available. Stay up to date with the latest features and fixes without having to check the Modrinth page manually!

• Modernized GUI: We’ve overhauled the interface styles. Italicized text in menus has been replaced with a cleaner, more readable format across the TagGUI and various color commands for a more consistent look and feel.

• Enhanced Messaging: All system messages have been standardized. You’ll notice more descriptive feedback and improved formatting in your chat and menus.

⚙️ Improvements & Fixes

• Robust Configuration: We've completely refactored how the plugin handles settings. This means better error handling, safer configuration merges during updates, and automatic backups to ensure your custom setups are never lost.

• Refined Documentation: The README and internal message files have been cleaned up for better readability and easier management for server owners.

🚀 Performance & Optimization Update

🛡️ Smart Entity Management

• Adaptive Intervals: The plugin now dynamically adjusts clearing frequency based on server load.
• MSPT Performance Gate: Clearing tasks now wait for a healthy performance window before executing, preventing "lag-clearing-lag."
• Tag Protection: Added configuration to protect specific entities from clearing via entity tags.
• New Status Command: Monitor your adaptive intervals and performance gates in real-time.

⚡ Optimization & Fixes

• Mob Limiter Boost: Optimized protection checks to reduce CPU overhead during mob limiting.
• Faster Sweeps: Miscellaneous entity processing is now handled more efficiently across chunks.
• Reliable Reloads: Refactored the plugin reload process to ensure all listeners and services cycle correctly without memory leaks.
• Startup Stability: Fixed a critical crash during the protection settings initialization.

🎨 UI & Quality of Life

• FastInv Migration: Menus are now faster and more stable thanks to the FastInv framework.
• Improved GUIs: The entity management interface now supports and displays adaptive interval settings.
• Consistency: Standardized ChatColor usage and updated help entries for better clarity.

Changelog

🎨 Visuals & Color Handling

• Default Color Logic: The system now automatically applies default colors via ConfigManager to messages and display names if no custom color is selected.
• Color Engine Overhaul: Centralized all color tag application within ColorUtil for better consistency and performance.
• Legacy Cleanup: Replaced outdated serialization methods with a unified legacy serializer and added stripLegacy support to keep chat clean.
• Refined Patterns: Improved the PatternApplier to handle complex string formatting more efficiently.

⚙️ Performance & Stability

• Thread Safety: Migrated PlayerDataManager to use ConcurrentHashMap, ensuring player data remains stable and safe during multi-threaded operations.
• Message Optimization: Refactored the core message coloring logic to ensure faster processing and more consistent application.
• Advanced Placeholders: Enhanced MessageManager to support advanced placeholders, allowing for more dynamic server communication.

Changelog

- Updated to meet the server version to remove an error

- Adjusted the pickup radius

- Optimizations to the project.

Change Log

• Updated to the new version of Hytale

Changelog

• Updated for the newest version
• Added the new trees to the config.yml
• Code Cleanup and optimizations

Complete Rework Update

We have spent a long time reworking this plugin. We have done the following.

• Not only that, but we also made a Wiki as well. Click Here for WIki
• Check the full Changelog On Modrinth

🚀 Features & Core Enhancements

• Database Overhaul: Full support for both SQLite and MySQL. Includes strict configuration parsing and schema versioning to ensure your data stays safe and migrations happen smoothly.
• Cleaner Reloads: Centralized the core shutdown process. This fixes a technical "leak" where the database pool wouldn't close properly during a reload, making the plugin much more stable during configuration changes.
• Authoritative Configuration: The config.yml is now the definitive source of truth for all module toggles. Toggling modules via the Admin GUI now syncs perfectly with your config file.
• Protection Settings: Added a new ProtectionSettings record to better manage how your entities and areas are guarded.

🛡️ Logic & Safety Fixes

• Smart Spawner Limiter: Fixed a potential crash (NullPointerException) that occurred when the Spawner Limiter was active while the Mob Limiter was disabled.
• Enhanced Command Security: All /lagg subcommands are now gated through a central permission checker. This ensures that permissions are enforced consistently across the board, including within Tab-Completion.
• Cycle Safeguards: Improved logic for clearing entities to prevent infinite loops and duplicate processing.

🔌 Compatibility & Integrations

• WildStacker Support: Fully implemented the WildStacker API integration. The plugin now correctly detects and handles stacked entities and items managed by WildStacker.
• ModernShowcase Integration: Improved the loading order for ModernShowcase. The plugin now detects it dynamically, ensuring showcase items are protected immediately without requiring a manual reload.
• Improved Documentation: Refreshed the config.yml with clearer headers and descriptive comments to make manual editing easier.

🛠️ Technical Changes

• Added ChatInputManager for more robust handling of player inputs.
• Standardized module configuration saving logic.
• Bumped project version to 2026.4.1.

Changelog

• Fixes where non-legacy colors were ending with
• Updated Wiki

ChatColor Rework

• I redid the whole plugin to be more modern with current-day MC servers
• New GUI Layout
• More colors
• Wiki Website
  • Click here for website

If there are any issues, please report them. I can't fix anything if I don't know about it.

Changelog - Version 2026.3.1

🛡️ Entity Protection & Management

• Armored Entity Safekeeping: Introduced the protect-armored-entities configuration option. When enabled, the clearing logic will now skip any entities equipped with armor (Armor Stands, Zombies, Skeletons, etc.).
• Logic Updates: * Refactored LagPreventionManager and EntityManager to respect protection flags.
  • Adjusted auto-clear routines to include armored entity detection during sweeps.

⚙️ System & Internal Improvements

• Smarter Config Migration: Refactored ConfigMigrator for a more maintainable and reliable YAML merging strategy during updates.
• Enhanced Debugging: Improved logging and internal timers for better task management and performance tracking.
• Refined Stability: Enhanced error handling for configuration reloads and minor internal improvements to the NotificationManager.

📦 Technical Changes

• Refactoring: Cleaned up core entity management classes to improve long-term maintainability.

🐝 BEEAUCTION - VERSION 2026.2.0

SECURITY & VALIDATION

• Introduced CommandValidator: Whitelist/Blacklist modes for scheduled tasks.
• Added InputSanitizer: Comprehensive scrubbing for names, chat, and logging.
• BidCommand Hardening: Added rate limiting and maximum bid validation.
• Removed deprecated "SECURITY FIX" tags and redundant inline comments.

CORE SYSTEMS & PERFORMANCE

• Concurrency Overhaul: Refactored auction logic for thread-safe operations.
• Database Optimization: Implemented single-threaded executor for SQLite/MySQL.
• Cleaned Codebase: Deleted legacy classes and dependency-reduced-pom.xml.
• Enhanced AuctionHistoryEntry and related data components.

INTEGRATIONS

• PlaceholderAPI Expansion:
  • New: %beeauction_auctions_won% (Tracks player wins).
  • New: %active_listings% / %active% (Backward compatibility).
  • Improved: Exception handling and fallback message support.
• Database: Added getAuctionsWonCount to SQLite/MySQL managers.

MESSAGING

• Refactored MessageEnum: RENAMED 'CANCELLED' -> 'AUCTION_CANCELLED'.
• Added placeholders for winner/loser notifications and bid amounts.
• Configuration: Dynamic {prefix} replacement and redundant comment removal.
• Documentation: Expanded README with leaderboard and PAPI examples.

This major release brings support for Minecraft 1.21+, significant updates to the underlying architecture (Java 17), and full integration with ChatControl.

Important Notes

• 1.21+ Support: This version is fully updated for modern Minecraft versions (1.21+).
• Java 17 Required: We have upgraded to Java 17. Please ensure your server runtime is up to date.

Integrations & Features

• ChatControl Support: Added full integration with ChatControl.
  • Adjusted ChannelPostChatEvent priority to HIGHEST.
  • Refined message formatting with multi-step fallback logic.
• Shading: Configured proper dependency shading and exclusions.

Technical Improvements

• Precision: Changed rating from int to double in SpigotResource.
• Cleanup: Removed redundant comments and simplified formatting logic.
• Build: Reorganized repositories in pom.xml.

Dependencies & Ops

• PlaceholderAPI: Updated to 2.11.5.
• XSeries: Updated to 13.6.0.
• Authlib: Adjusted scope to provided.
• Documentation: Expanded README with commands, permissions, and config.
• License: Added LICENSE file.

Update 2026.1.3.1

🛠 Bug Fixes

• Fluid Placement: Prevented fluids from being placed in mid-air to ensure more realistic behavior and prevent griefing/accidental spills.
• Permission Logic: * Improved protection integration with BentoBox.
  • The system now prioritizes the BUCKET flag for permission checks.
  • Added a fallback to the PLACE_BLOCKS flag when the specific bucket flag is unavailable.

📝 Internal Changes

• Dependency Management: Corrected an inconsistency in the pom.xml where the version was incorrectly set to 2026.1.1.3.
• Version Bump: Project version officially updated to 2026.1.3.1.

ChangeLog

• Smart Config Migration: Introduced ConfigMigrator for intelligent YAML merging. It now preserves your custom comments while automatically injecting new keys and removing obsolete ones.
• Automatic Backups: The system now generates safety backups before performing configuration updates.
• Version Bump: Project version updated to 2026.3.0.

If you're upgrading from an older version, please check your plugins/CLE/backups folder for copies of your previous configurations.