AdvancedNPCs999

Added

• Added click and attack detection that works on every supported server version, so interactions always trigger
• Added name tags above NPCs with full colour code and hex colour support
• Added the ability to hide an NPC's name tag while keeping the NPC visible
• Added a separate display name for an NPC, so the name shown above it can differ from its internal name
• Added multi-line floating text above NPCs with an adjustable height
• Added clickable dialogue options that can continue a conversation, run a command, or display extra text
• Added a per-NPC interaction permission, so only players with that permission may interact
• Added a per-NPC allow list, so specific players can be granted access regardless of permissions
• Added interaction conditions: line of sight, sneaking required, a required item held, and a per-NPC cooldown
• Added a full editor menu that manages every NPC setting from one place
• Added equipment management for the off hand alongside the main hand and armour
• Added waypoint listing and removal
• Added three patrol styles: repeat, back and forth, and walk once then stop
• Added a separate pause and speed for patrol routes
• Added a particle preview that highlights an NPC's route
• Added automatic, timestamped backups of all NPC data with a configurable number kept
• Added manual backups, exporting NPCs to a file, importing NPCs from a file, and a one-step undo
• Added NPC health, configurable attack damage, and an invulnerability option
• Added a choice of what happens when an NPC is defeated: come back after a delay, or stay hidden
• Added an option to drop an NPC's equipment when it is defeated
• Added defeat and respawn announcements
• Added an option to give NPCs an actual fight when guarding, including attacking whatever threatens the guarded player
• Added PlaceholderAPI support, exposing NPC counts, names, positions, health, state and more
• Added a configurable message text system so every player facing message can be reworded, translated and coloured
• Added new configuration options for total NPC limits, maximum range, spawn delay on join, respawn delay, backup behaviour, backup retention and debug output
• Added a new permission set covering viewing, modifying, editing, saving, reloading, backups and debug output
• Added a fallback for the invisible entities used for floating text so they are never saved into the world
• Added a single download that runs on every supported server version, so there is no longer a choice to make when installing

Fixed

• Fixed interactions never firing on some supported versions, which made right-click, left-click and proximity triggers unreliable
• Fixed guarding NPCs doing nothing at all; they now defend the guarded player and fight back
• Fixed the configured follow and patrol speeds being ignored in favour of fixed values
• Fixed the debug toggle doing nothing and the debug setting being missing from the configuration
• Fixed sitting never appearing; the pose was applied and then discarded before players could see it
• Fixed changing gravity rebuilding the NPC once for every player online
• Fixed resetting an NPC wiping its name
• Fixed cloning ignoring creation limits and permissions, allowing duplicate names, and leaving copies without an owner
• Fixed the fallback skin using an invalid signature, which could make NPCs render incorrectly
• Fixed NPCs with no owner escaping the creation limit
• Fixed the entity type command rejecting every value and reporting a misleading error
• Fixed NPCs turning their heads in the wrong direction
• Fixed names containing spaces being cut down to the first word
• Fixed most commands not checking permissions, which let any player change or delete NPCs they did not own
• Fixed ownership checks applying to only a single command
• Fixed the equip and clone permissions being declared but never enforced, and missing from the full access group
• Fixed the range command accepting zero, negative and absurd values
• Fixed interactions being spammable with no cooldown, allowing commands to be run repeatedly
• Fixed saving running at the same time as the game was changing data, which risked corrupt or partially written data
• Fixed shutdown overlapping with a background save
• Fixed patrol and wander tasks continuing to run after an NPC was removed
• Fixed movement tasks not restarting after a reload
• Fixed selection and proximity tracking never being cleaned up when players left the server
• Fixed an unloaded world causing errors when selecting or listing NPCs
• Fixed plugin startup failing when the command description was unavailable
• Fixed reloading leaving removed NPCs in memory and never restarting automatic saving
• Fixed the stored skin data never being created on a fresh installation
• Fixed reloading leaving behind duplicate NPCs
• Fixed NPCs walking through walls and into unloaded areas while patrolling or following
• Fixed following silently doing nothing whenever a patrol was already running
• Fixed skins being stored in two incompatible formats, so skins saved by either download could be ignored
• Fixed equipment being stored in a way that equipment saved by the other download could not be read
• Fixed skin cache entries being treated as different players depending on capitalisation, and never refreshing once stored
• Fixed a missing skin signature causing errors while loading stored skins
• Fixed one damaged NPC entry stopping that NPC from loading without a clear explanation
• Fixed cloning bypassing the duplicate name check
• Fixed names above NPCs being unreliable and colour codes never being shown
• Fixed NPCs being given fixed placeholder client details instead of consistent defaults
• Fixed clicking an unrelated entity being able to trigger an NPC interaction
• Fixed NPCs sometimes being shown twice or briefly at the wrong position when joining or changing worlds
• Fixed entities appearing that could not be removed after a very fast hide and show
• Fixed the plugin disabling itself on newer point releases of 1.21
• Fixed the packaged plugin reporting a version that did not match the release
• Fixed the download for older servers being packaged as a legacy plugin, which made newer servers convert it every time it loaded
• Fixed placeholder author and website details
• Fixed a malformed command usage line
• Fixed the plugin requiring one specific machine's Java installation to build
• Fixed the two downloads having drifted into different sets of behaviour, so improvements only reached one of them
• Fixed internal support failing causing a hard crash instead of a clear explanation and a safe degraded start
• Fixed stale build artefacts and crash reports being kept in the project