Advanced Achievements

AdvancedAchievements v11.7

A major stability and feature update focused on progressive achievements, brewing achievements, GUI accuracy, and localization.

Specific Potion Recipe Achievements

* Added support for achievements based on brewing specific potion types. * Potion achievements can now match: * Item type, such as LINGERING_POTION * Exact Paper PotionType, such as TURTLE_MASTER * Added configurable achievements for all 19 craftable potion effects. * Default configuration uses the more difficult lingering potion variants where applicable. * Strong and extended duplicates are intentionally omitted. * Existing numeric Brewing achievements for total potions brewed continue to work normally. Specific potion achievements include support for: * Persistence * GUI progress * Commands * Resets * Cooldowns * Placeholders

Fixed

Progressive / Multi-Tier Achievements

* Fixed an issue where multi-tier achievements could fail to award when thresholds were internally stored in the wrong order. * Progressive achievements are now evaluated individually at every configured threshold. * Players can correctly receive lower achievement tiers even if a higher threshold is processed first. * Achievement thresholds are now restored in the correct subcategory and threshold order when achievement data is rebuilt. * Prevented incorrect achievement ordering from stopping evaluation of other eligible tiers. For example: 1 → 20 → 100 Each tier will now be awarded independently as the player reaches it.

Achievement GUI

* Fixed completed achievement tiers occasionally appearing as incomplete while their database save was still processing asynchronously. * Made the received-achievement cache thread-safe for simultaneous achievement processing and asynchronous GUI loading.

Advancement / Category Ordering

* Preserved achievement ordering by subcategory and threshold. * Prevented achievements from different subcategories from becoming interleaved. * Keeps advancement chains and category GUI ordering consistent.

Internal Improvements

* Improved achievement threshold processing reliability. * Improved synchronization between achievement awarding, database persistence, and GUI loading. * Added additional regression coverage for progressive achievements and achievement-map rebuilding. * Added dedicated tests using thresholds such as AnvilsUsed: 1, 20, 100. * Verified reverse-inserted achievement tiers are still awarded in the correct progression. * Verified potion recipe matching and threshold processing in the packaged plugin.

Added

Ukrainian Translation

* Added full Ukrainian language support.

* Removed all permission requirements from normal achievement progression. * Players can now earn achievements without achievement.<Name>, category, subcategory, count, or other dynamically generated permissions. * Removed achievement permission checks from event listeners, statistic-based achievements, the GUI, and /aach give. * /aach give still requires the sender to have achievement.give, but the target player no longer needs permission for the achievement itself. * DisabledCategories is now the only configuration option used to disable entire achievement categories. * Removed the obsolete HideNoPermissionCategories setting and related permission/language entries. * Achievement advancement synchronization failures are now non-fatal and can no longer prevent achievements from being saved, cached, or rewarded. * Existing restrictions for disabled worlds, game modes, NPCs, cancelled events, and disabled categories remain unchanged. * Added regression tests covering permission-free achievement progression and the preserved restriction system.

Fixed and built. Root cause: GUIItems treated the fallback Item key as an achievement type, producing Item.Item. Loader now supports both direct fallback items and typed items (normal, rare), including reload cache clearing: GUIItems.java Added regression coverage: GUIItemsTest.java

Fixed

* Fixed the plugin not loading when multiple achievements use duplicate DisplayName values. * Unique internal Name values are still enforced. * Blank display names remain invalid.

Improved Achievement Loading

The plugin now continues loading when individual achievements contain invalid configuration instead of failing the entire plugin. It now: * Skips malformed achievements while continuing to load valid ones. * Skips invalid or non-positive threshold entries. * Isolates malformed categories and subcategories. * Logs the exact configuration path for every skipped entry. * Prints a final count of skipped entries after loading. * Prevents failed entries from reserving advancement keys. Global failures that make safe operation impossible, such as unreadable YAML files or invalid database settings, remain fatal.

This update focuses on making configuration reloads safer, reducing database work on the main server thread, and improving reliability under concurrent activity.

Reload & Configuration Improvements

Reloads now properly preserve and re-register the advancement listener.* Configuration-dependent scheduled tasks are fully cancelled and recreated* during reloads. Added transactional configuration reloads.* Configuration is now parsed and validated in temporary state before being applied. * If validation fails, the previous working configuration remains active. * Failed reloads can no longer leave the plugin partially configured. * Added additional validation for: * Database types * Colors * Intervals and thresholds * Database table prefixes * Malformed configuration sections * Duplicate display names * Advancement-key collisions

Performance Improvements

GUI, book, and ranking database reads now run asynchronously*, reducing unnecessary work on the main server thread. Category GUI completion dates now use bulk database queries* instead of querying achievements individually. Subcategory statistics now use bulk queries*, significantly reducing database requests when loading larger menus. * Improved concurrent cache initialization to prevent statistic updates from being lost during simultaneous operations.

Reliability & Testing

* Added regression tests covering: * Configuration rollback after failed reloads * Bundled configuration parsing * Advancement listener registration * Scheduled task recreation * Concurrent caching behavior * Bulk database operations Overall, this release makes reloads considerably safer while reducing database overhead and improving stability on active servers.

- Updated CI to Java 21 + modern GitHub Actions in BUILD.yml. - Made plugin.yml use Maven-filtered ${project.version}. Built output now resolves to 8.0.2. - Added resource filtering and MockBukkit test dependency in advanced-achievements-plugin/pom.xml. - Added Byte Buddy/Mockito version properties and dependency pinning in pom.xml. - Added AdvancementGenerationPerTick to config.yml. - Fixed H2 test/data-folder path handling in H2DatabaseManager.java. - Hardened EOF handling in YamlUpdater.java. - Fixed the potion tests to match the current API in MaterialHelperTest.java. - Fixed item reward testing with MockBukkit in RewardParserTest.java. - Replaced reward command printStackTrace() calls with structured logger calls in RewardParser.java. - Ran formatter; it touched existing format drift across the repo. -Updated project version to 11.0 in pom.xml and plugin parent version in advanced-achievements-plugin/pom.xml. - Removed the advanced-achievements-api Maven module, dependency, and shade filter. - Deleted the public API surface: AdvancedAchievementsAPI AdvancedAchievementsAPIFetcher AdvancedAchievementsBukkitAPI PlayerAdvancedAchievementEvent API-related test - Moved only the required internal category/domain classes into the plugin module so the plugin still compiles without offering a separate API. Replaced the Bukkit custom API event dispatch with direct internal award handling via awardAchievement(...). Please consider leaving a good review for the plugin. Discord Support

Added ShowAdvancementToasts* config option. * Server owners can now disable Minecraft advancement pop-ups shown in the top-right corner. * This also prevents catch-up advancement pop-ups from appearing when players join. Run /aach generate* after changing this option. Config Option

# Show Minecraft advancement toast pop-ups in the top-right corner when plugin advancements are awarded. Set to false
# to disable those pop-ups, including catch-up notifications that can appear when players join. If changed, run
# /aach generate to regenerate advancements with the new value taken into account.
ShowAdvancementToasts: true

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- Fix a bad give command crashing parseCommandReward. - Stop dependabot from running. - Fix the generate command not working and throwing an error. - Generate command will run and auto update on server start up. - Ensure balanced performance during the generation by batching the operations. - Updated the background used for the advancement UI and provided proper info for users to find more valid ones. - One config change.

# Background shown on the advancement tab. Find more valid backgrounds here https://www.convertmcpack.net/pages/item_lists.html.
AdvancementsBackground: "minecraft:block/purple_concrete"

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Make sure the fireworks spawned when earning achievements don't cause damage.

- The travel by boat achievements only worked for oak boat. It will now support all boat types. Please consider leaving a good review for the plugin. Discord Support

Version 9.1 - On versions 1.20.4 and bellow skip certain particles to avoid console errors. Version 9.0 - Added support for 1.20+ MC versions. - Added Java 21 requirement. - Updated all dependencies and libraries to 2024 versions. - Fixed and replaced deprecated methods. - Improved potion handling and recognition. Please consider leaving a good review for the plugin. [Discord Support](https://discord.gg/v3SjfAQsdB)

- Added support for 1.20+ MC versions. - Added Java 21 requirement. - Updated all dependencies and libraries to 2024 versions. - Fixed and replaced deprecated methods. - Improved potion handling and recognition.