Divine Hordes

Divine Hordes Plugin - Complete Evolution Changelog

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Version 2.5.0 - "Sleep Prevention & Polish"

Sleep Prevention System - Strategic Night Mechanics

NEW FEATURE: Complete sleep prevention during active Divine Horde events

✨ Key Features:
- Players cannot sleep during active events (maintains strategic pressure)
- Spawn point setting still works with beds (practical base management)
- Automatic bed ejection with informative messages
- Configurable system with master toggle and notification controls

🎯 Strategic Benefits:
- Preserves event tension and cooperation requirements
- Prevents easy escape from Divine Horde challenges
- Maintains quality of life for respawn management

Enhanced Block Protection System

CRITICAL FIX: Offering chest protection overhaul

🔧 Improvements:
- Fixed critical block breaking bug during events
- Enhanced protection system with better event detection
- Improved chest security with multi-layer validation
- Better error handling and fallback protection methods

Emergency Cleanup Improvements

SAFETY ENHANCEMENT: Better plugin removal procedures

⚡ Features:
- Enhanced emergency cleanup methods for safer plugin removal
- Improved entity cleanup with better detection systems
- More thorough memory cleanup and resource freeing
- Better error handling during cleanup operations

Configuration & Compatibility

SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS: Enhanced configuration and compatibility

📋 Updates:
- Comprehensive sleep prevention configuration options
- Enhanced debug system for chest protection and sleep prevention
- Improved spawn point setting with version compatibility fallbacks
- Better configuration validation and error reporting

📄 License Change:
- Updated from GPL-3.0-only to MIT License
- Broader compatibility and easier integration for developers
- More permissive licensing for community modifications

Documentation Overhaul

DOCUMENTATION: Complete refresh for v2.5.0

📖 Updates:
- Complete documentation refresh for all new features
- Enhanced troubleshooting guides with new scenarios
- Improved configuration examples and best practices
- Updated developer integration guides

Version 2.4.0 - "Combat & Optimization Revolution"

Combat Enhancement Revolution

COMBAT OVERHAUL: Completely redesigned combat experience

🎯 Spawn Distance Optimization:
- Mobs now spawn 20-40 blocks from players (was 30-100 blocks)
- Better reaction time and strategic positioning
- Balanced engagement distance for all difficulty levels

💥 Real-Time Damage Feedback:
- Action bar display shows exact damage dealt to mobs
- Live mob health percentage remaining
- Instant feedback for combat effectiveness
- Enhanced combat satisfaction and tactical awareness

⚡ Progressive Speed Scaling:
- Early game: 60%/70% normal speed (strategic gameplay)
- Progressive increase through difficulty levels
- Normal speed reached at Nightmare difficulty
- Balanced progression for all skill levels

Player Data & Statistics Revolution

PLAYER TRACKING: Comprehensive statistics system

📊 Real-Time Player Stats:
- Events participated and completed with success rates
- Total offerings changed and XP spent tracking
- Teleports used and mob kills during events
- Deaths during events with detailed breakdown
- Top 5 most offered items with quantities
- Average XP expenditure per event
- Complete participation history with timestamps

💾 Data Persistence:
- Complete login/logout data preservation
- Settings, stats, and history saved across sessions
- Thread-safe data operations with auto-backup
- Configurable data retention and cleanup

Mob Balance & Difficulty Redesign

DIFFICULTY SYSTEM: Complete rebalancing for better progression

🎮 New Difficulty Ranges:
- Easy (0.7x) to Nightmare (1.8x) as dynamic range
- Very Easy (0.4x), Peaceful (0.5x), Impossible (3.0x) as manual overrides
- Starting difficulty set to "Easy" for better new player experience

👥 Player Count Separation:
- Player count now affects MOB QUANTITY, not difficulty scaling
- +20% more mobs per additional player (capped at +100%)
- Difficulty scaling based purely on equipment/experience/time

🧟 Mob Count Ranges (NEW SYSTEM):
- Easy: 15-20 base mobs
- Normal: 15-30 base mobs  
- Hard: 30-40 base mobs
- Expert: 35-45 base mobs
- Master: 42-50 base mobs
- Nightmare: 45-50 base mobs

🛡️ Beginner Protection:
- Baby zombies automatically converted to adults until Hard difficulty
- Ravagers completely blocked until Nightmare difficulty
- Progressive mob type unlocking for safer learning curve

Offering System Improvements

VARIETY SYSTEM: Enhanced offering diversity and history

🔄 Offering History System:
- Tracks last 5 offerings to prevent immediate duplicates
- Ensures variety by filtering recently used materials
- Automatic history cleanup when all options exhausted
- Applies to both automatic generation and player changes

💰 Reward System Overhaul:
- Dramatically reduced reward quantities (better balance)
- All players receive identical rewards (fairness improvement)
- Reward history prevents consecutive duplicates (3-event memory)
- Increased reward value guarantee from 1.3x to 1.5x offering value

Technical Foundation Overhaul

INDEPENDENCE: Complete removal of external dependencies

🚫 ZMenu Removal:
- Complete removal of all zMenu dependencies and code
- Fully standalone operation with built-in GUI system
- Better compatibility across all server configurations
- Reduced plugin conflicts and installation complexity

☕ Java Compatibility:
- Forward compatibility with Java 17-21+
- API updates fixing deprecated method warnings
- Minecraft 1.18+ compatibility improvements
- Modern TextComponent usage replacing deprecated methods

📦 Bounty Box Fixes:
- Fixed critical duplication bug when breaking bounty boxes
- Enhanced protection and validation systems
- Better error handling and recovery procedures

Version 2.3.0 - "Complete System Overhaul"