Better End Cities

[0.4.0] - 2026-09-23

Added

• Ship-only protection (protection.scope: ship-only). Towers and bridges are left open; the ship and the city's loot chests stay protected.
• Takeable dragon head (protection.dragon-head-takeable). A player can take the ship's head once, and resets never put it back.
• XP level price (elytra.cost.levels), optionally doubling with each elytra bought (elytra.cost.double-each-claim). Right-click the frame to see your next price.
• Frame shimmer (elytra.frame-aura), a faint particle effect around the frame when a player is near.
• The ship's brewing stand is per-player. Every player finds its two healing potions.

Changed

• Every setting is now in the /betterend menu. The old End Cities page is split into Per-player Loot, Protection and Finding Cities & Resets, plus new Storage and Updates & Stats pages.

Fixed

• Better Anti-Dupe was never detected. The plugin looked for its old name, so claimed elytras weren't marked as the claimer's own.
• MySQL storage never started. The plugin now starts on MySQL, and large loot copies (full shulker boxes, written books) save.
• Loot could be taken twice when a chest was open during a shutdown or reload, or reopened straight after closing.
• A player's own filled chest inside a city was copied to everyone. It now stays an ordinary shared chest.
• Cities looted before the plugin was installed gave out empty chests. They now roll fresh End City loot for each player, including chests already saved empty by an older version.
• City bounds were one block short on their east, top and south edges. Existing cities are corrected on the first start.
• Finding a ship's elytra frame could freeze the server by loading up to 25 chunks at once.
• Saving a city's copy no longer freezes the server while its chunks load.
• Protection now stops buckets, pistons, withers and falling blocks.
• Folia: /betterend tp and saving from the menu work.
• /betterend tp lands on top of the city's base tower instead of possibly over the void.
• /betterend delete clears the city's elytra claims at once and lets it be found again without a restart.
• /betterend resetloot no longer stalls the server on a name that never joined.