Added • Support for custom hex colors (like #FF5733) in the /color set command! • Hex color code suggestions while typing the command.

Fix • Corrected color display issues when changing chat styles.

Remove • None

Added

• Enhanced performance and stability tracking

Fixed

• None

Removed

• None

Added

• Automatic preservation of your custom game settings when installing new updates
• Automatic background cleanup of old settings backups

Fixed

• Issue where updating the game could reset saved player preferences and options

Removed

• Obsolete settings files and outdated configuration backups

Added

• /color debug command to test and troubleshoot chat color settings.
• Updated player and staff documentation regarding chat features and permissions. Click Here to view new updated docs.

Fixed

• Chat message formatting stability and detection issues.

Removed

• None

GeckoLib is now a required dependency for this update. Please ensure it is installed.

Added

• Tension meter HUD during the reeling phase
• Fish resistance logic where fish actively pull away from the line
• Line snap mechanic when tension gets too high or the fish pulls too far away
• Clear visual and text feedback for "Fish got away" vs. "Line snapped"
• Durability penalty on fishing rods when a line snaps
• Basic Fishing Rod and Magical Fishing Rod
• Reeling animations for held fishing rods
• Water ripple effects around the bobber

Fixed

• Water ripple animations now sit flush with the water surface
• Fishing minigame now properly cancels on player death, bobber despawning/loss, or disconnection
• Reeling animations now trigger correctly while fishing

Removed

• Client-side minigame validation (moved entirely to server verification for fair play)

Added

• chat-hook option in config.yml to configure chat event integration (AUTO, MODERN, LEGACY).
• Improved player display name support across chat configurations.

Fixed

• Chat event handling reliability and event listener registration.
• Data saving and loading synchronization to ensure thread safety and stability.
• Configuration loading performance and internal data handling.

Removed

• None

Special Thanks to tinseltuner (Docker) for bringing the issue to my attention.

Added

• safeSetItem method for improved slot validation in GUI item setting logic

Fixed

• Exception handling in ColorUtil to catch Throwable instead of generic Exception
• Legacy text parsing in ColorUtil for improved compatibility

Removed

• Nothing

Added

• ChunkUtils utility to safely handle chunk loading

Fixed

• Refactored modules to leverage ChunkUtils utility for chunk loading

Removed

• Nothing

Added

• XP rewards when fishing up special loot.

Fixed

• Restored missing audio cues during the minigame by adding a sound exemption for silent states.
• Prevented special item catches from incorrectly doubling during perfect catches.

Removed

• None

Added

• Multi-loot support: You can now reel in multiple items from a single catch!

Fixed

• Fallback logic for empty loot: Fixed an issue where fishing could result in no items being awarded.
• Refined tier-specific fishing loot tables to better match rewards to your fishing tier.
• Adjusted item weights across all loot tables for better overall drop balance.
• Enhanced catch message formatting to make your rewards clearer in the chat.

Removed

• Nothing

Added

• FastStats: Added FastStats for anonymous reporting for things like Server count, Player count, errors that may happen.

Fixed

• Cross-Version Sound Compatibility: Replaced legacy sound calls with XSound across all chat and announcement systems, ensuring sounds play reliably regardless of your server's Minecraft version.
• Cleaner Console Logs: Silenced unnecessary warning and debug spam from third-party library dependencies.
• • Discord Webhook Actions: You can now configure chat filter actions to send notifications directly to Discord via webhooks.
• Discord Integration: Integrated core Discord manager functionality for expanded Discord-related operations.
• Chat Formatting Safety: Added error handling for chat formatting to prevent broken messages or console errors if a format is misconfigured.

Added

• Implemented fishing loot tiers for tiered rewards.
• Added minigame difficulty scaling.
• Introduced configurable ripple spawning mechanics.

Fixed

• Fixed issue where the fishing rod would automatically recast itself immediately after catching fish or loot.
• Fixed ripples spawning in invalid water types.
• Fixed the bug causing "You caught air" to display in the HUD.

Removed

• Nothing

Added

• Added broadcastPermissionMessage utility to support permission-based broadcasting.
• Integrated permission-based broadcasting for performance snapshot notifications.

Fixed

• Optimized chunk key calculations in GlobalEntityRegistry using bitwise operations for significantly improved performance.

Removed

• Disabled default packet-limiter and afk settings in config.yml.

Added

• Enhanced MiniMessage support in ColorUtil for smoother tag parsing (gradients, rainbow, hover/click events) and safer fallback handling for invalid tags.
• Expanded HEX color support in ColorUtil with broader pattern recognition (&#RRGGBB, #RRGGBB, and <color:#RRGGBB>).

Fixed

• Overhauled legacy text handling in ColorUtil to properly process & and § codes and prevent formatting leaks across wrapped chat messages.
• Fixed bug in ChatListener where message color processing could unintentionally override player prefixes or group ranks.
• Resolved double-parsing issues during chat events by streamlining format assembly logic.

Removed

• Removed redundant legacy formatting passes in ChatListener to optimize chat event processing speed and reduce server overhead.

🎣 Fishing Gameplay Updates

• Immediate Catch: Reverted the complex reeling mechanic. Once you successfully complete the minigame, you will receive your catch immediately—just like classic fishing, but with the added fun of the challenge!
• Removed Reeling AI: Fish no longer spawn in the world to be "reeled in," fixing issues with fish getting stuck or despawning during the process.

🌊 Minigame Visual Improvements

• 3D World Rendering: The fishing minigame rings are now rendered directly on the water surface around your bobber. The old 2D screen overlay has been removed for a more immersive feel.
• Stable Target Ring: The goal ring is now a solid Gold color and remains stationary on the water.
• Dynamic Closing Ring: The closing ring now changes color from Red to Green the moment it enters the "safe to click" zone, providing a clear visual cue for success.
• Better Visibility: Ring thickness and scale have been adjusted to be clearly visible in various lighting and weather conditions.
• Reduced Clutter: Removed the bobber vibration effect to keep the minigame visuals clean and stable.

🛠️ Technical Fixes

• Cross-Version Stability: Resolved multiple rendering and synchronization bugs across the entire 1.21.x range.
• Full Compatibility: The mod now officially supports and is optimized for every Minecraft version from 1.21.1 up to 1.21.11.

Added

• Nothing

Fixed

• Console filter cleanup when the plugin disables (prevents shutdown errors)

Removed

• Nothing

Added

• Soft dependency support for ProtocolLib

Fixed

• Improved packet handling performance and stability (ProtocolLib integration)
• Streamlined internal notification processing
• Action bar support for notifications
• Customizable sounds for notifications

Removed

• Nothing

AutoPickup v26.7.0

✨ Improvements & Enhancements

• Cleaner Item Names: Updated item name formatting so items now display with cleaner, more user-friendly names in messages and menus.
• Performance Boost: Optimized block break handling with improved caching to keep your experience smooth during heavy mining or farming sessions.
• Under-the-Hood Metrics Cleanup: Overhauled internal metrics tracking, streamlined background initialization, and removed redundant console log spam.

🛠️ System & Tech Updates

• Bumped project version to 26.7.0.
• Modernized internal metrics pipeline (consolidated into a unified MetricsManager using FastStats).
• Optimized project build configuration, added high-performance caching dependencies (Caffeine), and cleaned up native libraries for better cross-platform support.

🚀 New Features

• AFK Module: Added a dedicated AFK tracking module complete with customizable configuration options.
• Packet Limiter Module: Introduced a packet limiter module to help protect the server against packet floods and exploits.

⚡ Performance & Tweaks

• Performance Enhancements: Optimized internal event handling and module processing for smoother server performance.
• Integration Updates: Updated integration handlers to ensure better compatibility across dependencies.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Inventory Management: Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException and prevented potential NullPointerExceptions in FastInvManager.closeAll during server shutdown.

Updated ChatColors Docs. Please make sure to take a look.

✨ Enhancements & Fixes

• 🎨 Improved Color & Placeholder Application: Refactored internal formatting logic to ensure smoother, glitch-free color application and more reliable placeholder processing.
• ⚡ Priority Detection Overhaul: Rewrote color priority evaluation for a more consistent experience across rank and permission setups.
• 🔌 Enhanced Plugin Compatibility:
  • Improved integrations and smooth operation alongside EssentialsChat.
  • Upgraded PlaceholderAPI handling for reliable expansion parsing and seamless text injection.

⚙️ Engine & Under the Hood

• Modernized Core Architecture: Fully refactored internal models and core classes (removed Lombok dependencies) to increase maintainability, performance, and memory efficiency.
• Dependency Updates:
  • Updated PlaceholderAPI target to 2.12.3.
  • Updated Bukkit / API target to 0.28.0.

⚙️ Internal Changes

• Moved inventory management backend (FastInv and FastInvManager) into the internal library structure (libs.fastinv).

✨ Features

• Integrated FastInv, FastInvManager, and ItemBuilder utilities to improve plugin performance and streamline menu and inventory management.

🎨 Chat & Visual Updates

• Vibrant New Colors & Gradients: We've massively upgraded our text coloring system! You'll now see smoother color gradients, dynamic text patterns, and much more consistent formatting across chat and menus.
• Smarter Color Handling: Improved how the system handles default colors. This eliminates weird formatting glitches and ensures text looks exactly how it should, even when mixing custom colors.
• For Server Owners & Devs: We've expanded the ChatColorAPI with brand new tools and improved the documentation, making it easier than ever to customize server text and build colorful add-ons!

🛠️ Performance & Stability

• Smoother Menus & Inventories: We've overhauled the background code that handles custom menus (FastInvManager). By modernizing the logic, opening custom containers and clicking through interfaces is now faster, more stable, and less likely to cause lag or micro-stutters.

🚀 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.