Changelog — BloodMoonPlus

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[1.0.0] — First public release

First official release. A complete Blood Moon plugin that improves on and goes beyond BloodMoon-Reborn 1.1.1.

Added ⭐

• Fixed schedules in Mexico time with two modes: weekly (weekday + real time) and interval (every N hours). Multiple runs on the same day.
• 9 bosses with health bars, minimum difficulty, enrage phases, abilities and their own loot.
• 45 items by rarity: common (guaranteed drop), rare, epic, legendary and mythic (~0.1%) ⭐.
• Custom enchantments up to level 7 plus unique abilities: crit, thunder guard, blast wave, levitate and bleeding ⭐.
• Progressive waves: 5 → 10 → 15 → … with a configurable cap ⭐.
• Immersion: red fog, lightning when hordes/bosses spawn or a player dies, ambient sounds and constant announcements. No rain, but thunder ⭐.
• 12 hostile mob types and progressive hordes.
• Stats & survivors: rankings, damage MVP, who survived.
• Placeholders (%bloodmoon_*%): status, time left, next moon, difficulty, bosses, wave, stats… via PlaceholderAPI.
• Internationalization (i18n) and per-world configuration.
• Wither control: the normal Wither is blocked at the plugin level + an optional datapack (BloodMoonWitherControl) that removes any Wither that is not the boss.
• Terrain protection during the event, with bosses exempted.

Changed

• Difficulty is now a continuous multiplier (0.1 – 10.0, default 1.0) with 7 scaling factors.
• "Broken" rare/legendary/mythic items now drop at a 5% chance.
• Legendary items include vanishing_curse.

Fixed

• Massive PlayerDeathEvent error: vanilla death messages (with § codes) broke MiniMessage. They are now converted from legacy to MiniMessage with a fallback that never throws.
• Hordes stopping after a player died: the "currently dead" state is now separated from the "died at least once" state, so hordes resume on respawn.
• Peaceful-difficulty compatibility (no longer crashes).

Performance

• Removed whole-world scans and per-hit parsing.
• Local entity scans and item-parse caching.
• Optimized placeholder snapshots and more efficient action bars. Designed for 40+ players.

Compatibility

• Paper 26.2 and 26.3. Built with Java 25.