✨ DynamicLight Update — Environment Lighting

This update expands DynamicLight beyond players, items, and mobs by introducing configurable lighting for blocks and plants found in the world.

🌿 Environment Lighting

World blocks can now emit configurable vanilla-style light.

dynamic_light:
  environment:
    enabled: true
    scan_chunk_loads: true
    chunks_per_tick: 1

    blocks:
      FIREFLY_BUSH: 4
      SPORE_BLOSSOM: 7
      FLOWERING_AZALEA: 5

Any valid block material can be added with a light level between 1 and 15.

Features

• Supports naturally generated and player-placed blocks.
• Detects configured blocks when chunks are loaded.
• Responds to block placement, breaking, growth and spreading.
• Handles explosions, fire, block fading and piston movement.
• Automatically removes invisible light sources when they are no longer needed.
• Multiple nearby plants can safely share the same light source.
• Environment lights are protected from the item, mob and player light cleanup systems.
• Chunk scanning is distributed across ticks to reduce server impact.
• Compatible with Paper and Folia scheduling.

Environment lighting illuminates the surrounding area. Emissive textures and bloom effects still depend on the player's resource pack or shaders.

⚙️ Automatic Configuration Updates

Replacing the plugin JAR with a newer version will now automatically update the existing config.yml.

The updater:

• Adds newly introduced configuration options.
• Preserves all customized values.
• Keeps administrator-created sections.
• Preserves YAML comments.
• Runs during server startup and /dl reload.
• Avoids overwriting the configuration if invalid YAML is detected.

Server owners no longer need to delete or manually recreate their configuration file after installing an update.

🛠️ Additional Improvements

• Unknown materials are safely ignored on older Minecraft versions.
• Improved cleanup when chunks unload or the plugin is disabled.
• Environment lights are included in active light statistics.
• Improved compatibility between permanent environment lighting and dynamic entity lighting.