TheHerobrine-OG/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to TheHerobrine-OG are documented here.

1.6.3 - 2026-09-14

Changes

• The lobby sidebar now follows the Scoreboard-OG network board's look: a ♥ TheHerobrine-OG ♥ title, one blank line between labelled blocks and the configured networkWeb footer. The queue card shows the lobby player count, the countdown or the players still needed, and the viewer's points, shard captures, kills and deaths; the round card shows the viewer's role, the map, shards captured out of three, the shard's status (seconds to the next spawn, time left on the ground, or its carrier) and the survivors alive. Every line stays within 16 legacy characters so 1.8 clients on ViaBackwards see it uncut.

1.6.2 - 2026-09-12

Changes

• Claim /hub, /lobby and /spawn inside lobby worlds before any other plugin sees them, the way /vote already is. Splegg-OG and BuildBattle-OG register /hub as well, and Bukkit hands the bare label to whichever plugin loads first, so a Herobrine player's /hub could run another minigame's command; Spawn-OG's /spawn teleported them out through its own warmup. /lobby is now an alias of /hub everywhere.

1.6.1 - 2026-09-12

Changes

• Render the lobby sidebar through Scoreboard-OG's sidebar API when Scoreboard-OG 1.2.0 or newer is installed. The network board returns by itself when the player leaves, and /togglescoreboard is honoured. Older Scoreboard-OG builds or no Scoreboard-OG at all fall back to the bundled ScoreboardLib board.
• Bundle the MariaDB driver the plugin actually loads and relocate every shaded dependency. The jar used to ship MySQL Connector/J while asking for org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver, so it only started on servers where another plugin happened to expose that class.
• Move every database and Redis round trip off the main thread: stat reads on join, the end-of-round push, kit lookups and kit saves. Chat and scoreboards show zeroes for the instant before a read lands.
• Run every game timer on the main thread. The countdown, narration, capture sequence, intro titles and the healing, wisdom, protective spirit, harming totem, bat bomb and blinding abilities were asynchronous and touched entities and player lists off-thread.
• Apply game state changes immediately instead of a tick later, and refuse a second start() or end() for the same round. Two players entering the hub in one tick could start two countdowns.
• Own only this lobby's worlds: HB1 no longer claims HB10-hub.
• Remove vote from plugin.yml. The preprocess listener still claims /vote and /v inside lobby worlds, and VotingPlugin keeps both labels everywhere else.
• Fix the Wizard kit permission node to theherobrine.kit.classic.wizard, as documented. Servers that granted the old wizzard spelling need to re-grant it.
• Declare theherobrine.overfill in plugin.yml, stop holding arena and hub spawn chunks in memory, cap the spawn-search chunk loads at 27 per map, open the spectator menu on left-clicking a block too, and stop a string ending in & from throwing in the colour parser.

1.6.0 - 2026-08-24

Changes

• Register per-player MiniPlaceholders through Utilities-OG: <hb_score> (total points), <hb_rank> (the Hive rank for that score, Death Bringer included for the top player) and <hb_class> (the &4THE HEROBRINE chat prefix while the player is the Herobrine of a live round, empty otherwise).
• Keep those values current the moment they change: lobby stat checks, in-round point awards and the end-of-round database push all write through a plugin-wide score cache, which is seeded from the database on login and reads the top player again after every push.
• Declare Utilities-OG as a hard dependency; the plugin already needed it at runtime for message formatting.
• Gate Death Bringer on the top player also holding Divine (300,000 points) instead of the showDeathBringerAt config value, which is removed. The top player keeps climbing the regular ladder until then.

1.5.9 - 2026-07-31

Changes

• Keep a lobby alive across games: the post-game rebuild reused the default hub template instead of the one the lobby was created with, so the lobby failed to come back and no lobbies were left to join.
• Recreate lobbies with their own hub template when reloading configs too, and report on the console when a rebuild fails.
• Record manual lobby creations only in lobbies/active-lobbies.yaml; the extra autoStartAmount increment spawned a second lobby from a template that does not exist.
• Remove the persisted entry when a lobby is deleted so it stays deleted after a restart.
• Add a hub key to lobby configs naming the hub template auto-started lobbies copy, defaulting to hub.
• Accept a hub template by number: /hbcreatelobby 1 resolves to HB1_Hub, hub names now match regardless of case, and the command tab-completes templates and rejects an unknown one instead of failing lobby creation.
• List the templates that do exist when a hub template cannot be found.
• Load lobby worlds a tick after startup rather than during it, so world creation no longer fires chunk events at plugins that are still starting.
• Delete lobby worlds left behind by a previous run before starting lobbies, so a crashed server no longer leaves arena world folders piling up on disk.

1.5.8 - 2026-07-29

Changes

• Repair Herobrine's visible-phase combat and phase-three loadout:
  • Equip and select the phase-three sword in hotbar slot 0 and place poison vials in slot 1.
  • Give Herobrine one normal golden apple in hotbar slot 2.
  • Stop clearing valid KnockbackSync knockback one tick after visible-phase hits while retaining knockback immunity during the invisible phases.
  • Preserve arrows as projectile hits with their direction and enchantment behavior instead of converting them to synthetic melee hits.
  • Apply game damage only after OldCombatMechanics has accepted a hit, and run hit effects only for non-cancelled damage.
• Declare KnockbackSync-OG as a soft dependency so combat listeners are ordered consistently when it is installed.
• Identify the active Herobrine in chat with a dedicated red role prefix and bold message text.
• Bundle the canonical joinsigns.yaml registry and install it on first startup.
• Correct the bundled default lobby's voting-map count.
• Update the GxUI-OG and Utilities-OG integrations.

1.5.7 - 2026-06-16

Changes

• Pin spawned shards to their configured block centers so they cannot drift.
• Add the /hbwizard command for an on-demand map setup walkthrough.
• Return joining players to the correct lobby spawn, improve hub-return behavior, and preserve real pre-lobby return locations while switching between managed worlds.
• Add lobby-local chat delivery and fix duplicate chat messages.
• Route /vote and /v to Herobrine voting only inside managed lobby worlds.
• Accept full, case-insensitive, and numeric lobby aliases such as HB1, hb1, and 1 in /hbjoin.
• Fix players remaining invisible after returning to a lobby.
• Fix managed-world mob cleanup.
• Fix join-sign rendering for 1.8 clients.
• Update GxUI-OG and Utilities-OG.

1.5.6 - 2026-05-20

Changes

• Add persistent, permission-controlled join signs with live lobby status and click-to-join behavior.
• Add /hub for leaving a lobby or game and returning to the main world.
• Improve join-sign labels and aggregate lobby status rendering.
• Rewrite the README around the current MyWorlds setup and administration flow.

1.5.5 - 2026-05-15

Changes

• Add /hbsetspawn, tab completion, and a guided map setup wizard.
• Harden shard spawning, bounds checking, cleanup, and map validation.
• Add configurable Herobrine skin textures for the visible phase.
• Add startup diagnostics that explain invalid maps and failed game starts.
• Expand spectator joining, toggling, navigation, and stat-handling behavior while correcting related edge cases.
• Add a void-world generator for first-time map setup.
• Correct several map setup edge cases.
• Prepare managed worlds for MyWorlds multi-world inventories.
• Bundle static default lobby configuration resources.
• Update bundled BKCommonLib, MyWorlds, and ProtocolLib dependencies.

1.5.2 - 2026-04-22

Changes

• Make MyWorlds a required dependency for the Purpur 1.19.4 target.
• Fail startup cleanly when SQL or Redis cannot initialize.
• Validate lobby resources before registering new lobbies.
• Rebuild active lobbies when /hbreloadconfigs runs so refreshed lobby configuration takes effect immediately.
• Remove ProtocolLib lobby listeners during shutdown and close Redis pools when the plugin is disabled.
• Update GxUI-OG and Utilities-OG.

1.5.1 - 2026-04-13

Changes

• Complete the initial MyWorlds compatibility work across plugin and lobby lifecycle handling.
• Add optional IllegalStack-OG compatibility, exempting active lobby players and reliably removing exemptions when they leave or a lobby shuts down.
• Disable animal and monster spawning in managed game worlds.
• Update the TrueOG APIs and adapt to the newer GxUI-OG interface.

1.5.0 - 2026-03-30

Changes

• Replace Multiverse world management with MyWorlds.
• Remove the bundled Multiverse legacy API and migrate lobby/world operations to BKCommonLib and MyWorlds APIs.
• Update the GxUI-OG and Utilities-OG integrations.

1.4.0 - 2025-12-12

Changes

• Introduce the multi-lobby architecture used by the TrueOG deployment.
• Refactor game, world, stat, kit, command, and message state to be scoped per lobby instead of relying on a single global game.
• Add commands and completion for creating, deleting, joining, reloading, and spectating lobbies.
• Begin the Multiverse 5 compatibility migration.
• Add the Gradle wrapper, automatic formatting, and source-backed GxUI-OG and Utilities-OG submodules.
• Modernize the Gradle tooling while retaining the Java 17 target.
• Update runtime and build dependencies throughout 2024 and 2025.

1.3.3 - 2024-10-25

Changes

• Target Java 17 and add the Purpur 1.19.4 API.
• Convert the Gradle build and settings files to Kotlin DSL.
• Produce reproducible archives and modernize Shadow plugin packaging.

1.3.2 - 2024-01-15

Changes

• Update the server target from Minecraft 1.18.2 to 1.19.4.
• Update ProtocolLib, Jackson, and MySQL Connector/J.
• Update packet sound access for the newer ProtocolLib API.

1.3.1 - 2023-05-05

Changes

• Add a spectator compass GUI for teleporting between active players.
• Add per-map minimum and maximum shard Y bounds.
• Destroy out-of-bounds shards, keep spawned shards aligned, and clean up shard entities safely.
• Keep invisible-phase Herobrine players invisible after potion interactions.
• Correct the bundled Ancient map data.

1.3.0 - 2023-04-11

Changes

• Rebalance and reorganize kit inventories, armor, and abilities.
• Add permission-aware kit definitions and richer item/ability descriptions.
• Add the start-timer pause command and improve timer behavior as a lobby fills or an operator pauses it.
• Add /v as a voting alias.
• Improve Herobrine smoke and waiting-state feedback.

1.2.0 - 2023-04-08

Changes

• Hide Herobrine's name tag until the third shard makes Herobrine visible.
• Separate stat tracker shutdown from stat reset so completed game statistics are persisted before being cleared.
• Delay end checks after disconnects so Herobrine and survivor outcomes are evaluated against updated online state.
• Record disconnects during a live game as deaths.
• Add a configurable point threshold for displaying the DeathBringer rank.
• Add end-of-game diagnostic logging.

1.1.0 - 2023-04-07

Changes

• Add a lobby statistics sidebar for points, captures, kills, and deaths.
• Rebalance Herobrine's weapon damage.
• Add explicit shard-destruction handling when a carrier falls into the void.
• Make spawned and dropped shards invulnerable.
• Correct stat access, lifecycle handling, and shard-destruction narration.
• Restore production defaults of 8 minimum players, 13 maximum players, and a 90-second start timer.
• Document the MySQL and Redis requirements.

1.0.0 - 2023-04-06

Changes

• Deliver the first tagged, playable remake with complete lobby, map, shard, capture, survivor, Herobrine, spectator, voting, and win-state flows.
• Add the Archer, Priest, Scout, Wizard, Mage, Paladin, and Sorcerer kits with their associated abilities.
• Add SQL-backed statistics, ranks, points, captures, kills, and deaths.
• Add force-start, Herobrine selection, shard-drop, and vote commands.
• Add scoreboards, colored name tags, map voting, configurable maps, and permission-gated kits.
• Refactor the 2021 prototype into the OG server target and rebalance combat, shards, kits, abilities, sounds, timers, and scoring.
• Fix Bat Bomb kill attribution, totem behavior, shard handling, game startup, world cleanup, and numerous pre-release gameplay edge cases.