ServerManagement+ v2.1.0

Minecraft 1.20.1 — Forge 47.4.0 / Fabric API 0.92.8

v2.1.0 is the 1.20.1 backport of the v2.1.0 release shipped on the mc/1.21.1-forge branch. It brings the full feature set, GUI polish, networking refactor, and bug-fix work from the 1.21.1 line back to Minecraft 1.20.1.

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Now Available on Forge and Fabric

ServerManagement+ now ships for both Forge and Fabric loaders on Minecraft 1.20.1. Pick the JAR that matches your server — every feature works the same on both loaders.

• Forge 47.4.0 (Minecraft 1.20.1)
• Fabric API 0.92.8 + Fabric Loader 0.19.2 (Minecraft 1.20.1)

Note: Both loaders are feature-complete and runtime-tested for the major flows. Please report any loader-specific issues you run into.

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GUI Polish — Every Screen

Every screen in the mod was reviewed and cleaned up. No more clipped buttons, overlapping text, or wasted space.

World Blur Backdrop (Performance Optimized)

• Manual post-processing PostChain shader manually renders the world blurred behind GUIs (equivalent of 1.21+ renderBlurredBackground).
• Compiled shader is cached and reused across GUI screen transitions to completely eliminate the synchronous OpenGL compilation stutter/lag when opening screens.
• Automatic self-healing resets the shader chain on resize or resource reload exceptions.

Admin Dashboard

• Close button now sits inside the panel instead of hanging off the bottom.
• Cards re-sized so everything fits cleanly at any window size.
• Card titles and descriptions are guaranteed to fit inside the card border at every GUI scale (including Auto / Scale 4 / Scale 5 on small windows).

MineBay

• Step 1 (Place item): Clear step indicators (1 / 2 / 3), a visible drop-zone frame around the offering slot, and a wider "Next" button.
• Step 2 (Set prices): Wider price input columns, bigger amount/mode/clear buttons, and a preview area on the right of each price row showing the picked item or a "Click to pick" hint.
• Edit Listing — Back button: Pressing Back no longer dumps you back into the place-item step. It now returns to the screen you came from. If you've made changes, you'll see a "Discard changes / Keep editing" prompt so you can't lose work by accident.
• Step indicators no longer overlap the header title.

MineStacks

• Slightly bigger panel for more breathing room.

World Manager

• Larger World Detail panel with the Portal Timer label moved above its controls (was below).
• Bigger timer controls and a wider portal type button.
• Symmetric Back / Close buttons.

Player Manager

• Pressing E while typing a player name no longer closes the screen.

Server Console

• Bigger panel and bigger Back button.
• Title text shifted so it no longer overlaps the back arrow.
• Larger Send / Clear buttons.

Global Settings (Chat & Tab Isolation)

• Toggling Chat or Tab Isolation off now restores the full player list immediately instead of waiting up to a second.

Economy Management

• All three template cards now fit inside the panel without overflow.
• Buttons (Edit / Delete / Enabled toggle) properly stay inside their cards.
• Free Reward and Task Template item slots can be clicked at any GUI scale.
• Stats page is now scrollable.

Performance Settings

• Bigger panel — all eight toggles now fit without clipping.
• Tab buttons evenly spaced; bottom buttons (Dashboard / Close) symmetric.
• Stats tab is scrollable.

MOTD Editor

• Discard-changes confirmation buttons work at any GUI scale.

Mod Configuration (/smconfig)

• /smconfig now opens the current config screen (with Economy, Server Performance, MOTD toggles and feature descriptions) instead of an old 3-toggle screen.
• Added per-feature description text under each name.
• Alternating row backgrounds and subtle dividers for easier reading.

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Chat & Tab Isolation — Now Actually Works

The Chat Isolation and Tab Isolation toggles in Global Settings were not actually doing anything in v2.0.0. Both have been completely fixed.

• Chat Isolation: When enabled, chat is restricted to players in the same dimension by default. Connected dimensions you set up still act as cross-dimension chat bridges.
• Tab Isolation: Players in other dimensions are now correctly hidden from your tab list (and you from theirs).
• Returning from another dimension: Players who travel away and come back are immediately visible again to everyone in tab — no more "ghost" players that needed a reconnect.
• Player models stay visible after dimension travel — fixes the bug where other players' 3D models would become invisible while their tab entry looked fine.
• Toggling off restores the full player list immediately instead of after the next sync cycle.

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/spectate — Many Fixes

The Player Manager spectate feature had a long list of issues in v2.0.0. All fixed:

• /spectate <player> now correctly opens the mod's spectate (it used to collide with vanilla's /spectate, which would return "Player is not in spectator mode").
• Same-dimension spectate: First-person hands and the hotbar are now hidden, and your view is locked to the target — a proper spectate camera.
• Cross-dimension spectate: Your body no longer follows the target around bumping into them. You're invisible to the target and don't collide with anything.
• Tab list disguise: Other players no longer see your name turn italic-gray (the vanilla "spectator mode" styling) — to everyone else you still appear as your normal game mode.
• Camera no longer freaks out before you go out of range — the cancel distance now follows the server's view distance.
• Cross-dimension travel by the target: You now seamlessly follow them through portals and back, with the camera reattaching cleanly. No more stuck-at-spawn camera.
• Stuck invincibility fix: If the server crashed while you were spectating, you could end up permanently invincible after rejoining. The mod now detects and clears this on login.
• No more duplicate "Now spectating …" chat lines — only one message per spectate.
• /spectate <yourself> now correctly tells you "You cannot spectate yourself" instead of running anyway.

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Other Command Fixes

• /teleportlobby now teleports you to the exact lobby coordinates set by /setlobby (was teleporting to the dimension's world spawn instead, ignoring the saved location).
• /setlobby now stores your exact position (including yaw/pitch) instead of a rounded block position with no rotation.

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Daily Tasks (Fabric)

• Daily task progress is now tracked on Fabric for block breaking, mob killing, item crafting, villager trading, and travel distance. Previously the events weren't wired up on Fabric, so no progress ever counted.
• Live GUI updates: Your Daily Tasks screen now refreshes immediately as progress is recorded — no need to close and re-open.

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MineBay Polish

In addition to the Step 1 / Step 2 / Edit Listing improvements above:

• Edit Listing's Back button now respects unsaved changes.
• Item-picker for price items reliably opens when you click a price slot, at any GUI scale.

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Behind the Scenes

A few changes you won't see directly but that improve the experience:

• Record-Based Packets: Parity achieved for all 72 network packet classes.
• AsyncSaveScheduler: Aligned to Java 17 daemon thread executors (replacing virtual threads from 1.21.1) to speed up economy, listings, and template saving with low overhead.
• 5-second heartbeat for Tab Isolation: If your client ever drifts out of sync with the server, it self-corrects within 5 seconds.
• Mod Session Cryptographic Verification: Hardened packet validation using random session tokens exchanged upon login.
• Automated Database Backups: Restores safety by recursively backing up data folders to serverdata/servermanagement/backups/ before configuration/database migrations.
• Circular Recipe Loop Protection: Item pricing update loops freeze after 25 cyclic iterations, guaranteeing convergence and preventing infinite startup cycles.

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Upgrade Notes

• v2.1.0 is save-compatible with v2.0.x — no world reset needed.
• If you've been editing TOML config files by hand, double-check the file after first start (the migration system will preserve your settings, but a manual review never hurts).
• If you're switching loaders, copy your <world>/serverdata/servermanagement/ folder to the new server — your economy, listings, and templates carry over.

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Known Limitations

• The OTA update checker uses case-insensitive filename matches to resolve the CurseForge JAR path, eliminating previous missing JAR warnings.
• The 1.20.1 backport compares ItemStacks via isSameItemSameTags because component-aware serialization is not available on this version.
• Some hard-coded Component.literal("§a…") strings in source files contain mojibake (§) inherited from the 1.21.1 source — purely cosmetic in-game, does not affect compile or behavior. Will be cleaned up in a future patch release.