Takion

Takion 1.6.3

Major update from 1.3 to 1.6.3, focused on the new Gradle multi-module structure, cleaner published artifacts, stronger version compatibility helpers, improved game rule support, and a better chat component pipeline.

Added

- Added a Gradle multi-module project structure with common, core, shaded, and plugin modules. - Added published per-module artifacts under me.croabeast.takion, including common, core, shaded, and plugin. - Added a shaded:all classifier for users who want a larger bundled distribution with extra runtime libraries. - Added a dedicated common artifact for reusable utilities such as GUI helpers, reflection helpers, service access, webhook utilities, time utilities, and dependency helpers. - Added a dedicated core artifact for the main Takion API, managers, formatting, placeholders, channels, logging, messaging, bossbars, titles, and game rules. - Added VNC-based server/version compatibility checks. - Added improved GameRule support through GameRule, GameRuleManager, and version-aware rule resolution. - Added player-head hover formatting support through player head tokens/components. - Added a configurable PrismaticAPI ChatProcessor owned by TakionLib. - Added getChatProcessor() and setChatProcessor(...) so plugins can reuse Takion's default component processing or replace it when needed. - Added expanded README/Javadocs covering installation, module usage, common APIs, formatting, logging, game rules, and chat processor usage.

Changed

- Migrated the build and release flow from the old Maven-style layout to Gradle. - Updated the publishing workflow to build and publish all Takion modules, source jars, javadocs, shaded jars, and release assets. - Changed the Maven coordinates to the new me.croabeast.takion module-based layout. - Merged the old shaded-all distribution into the shaded artifact as an all classifier. - Updated PrismaticAPI to 1.5.0. - Updated CommandFramework to 1.2.1. - Updated VaultAdapter to 1.2. - Updated GlobalScheduler to 1.1. - Updated InventoryFramework support to 0.12.0. - Delegated Takion chat component handling to PrismaticAPI instead of maintaining local duplicated chat component classes. - Modernized server metadata checks through VNC instead of older direct server-version logic. - Simplified message formatting and color/component handling around the new PrismaticAPI flow. - Refreshed the README installation examples for the current published artifacts and runtime choices.

Fixed

- Fixed GUI compatibility by updating InventoryFramework support. - Fixed TakionLib resolution so multiple plugins can resolve the correct library instance instead of falling back to the wrong provider. - Fixed animated bossbar update handling, including safer cleanup for offline players and more stable animation intervals. - Fixed common plugin supplier compatibility by keeping setPluginSupplier(...) as a deprecated bridge to setPlugin(...). - Fixed version/docs drift by aligning 1.6.3 usage examples, coordinates, and Javadocs with the new chat processor API.

Notes / Recommendations

- If you only need Takion APIs at compile time, use common and/or core as compile-only dependencies. - If you want a runtime jar with Takion bundled, use shaded. - If you need the larger bundled runtime with extra dependencies, use shaded:all. - If you deploy Takion directly as a plugin, use the plugin artifact. - Plugins using interactive chat components should use takion.getChatProcessor() instead of creating their own default processor. - Only use setChatProcessor(...) when you intentionally need custom component preprocessing. - Existing integrations using CommonServices.setPluginSupplier(...) should migrate to CommonServices.setPlugin(...), but the old method remains as a compatibility bridge. - All modules continue targeting Java 8 bytecode.