Island Level & Leaderboards

🎁 What's new

Donate your way to the top of the leaderboard. Level 2.24.0 introduces the long-awaited block donation system — players can now permanently contribute blocks to their island's level without having to place them. Drop a stack into the new /island donate GUI, hit confirm, and those points are yours to keep, surviving every future recalculation. Prefer the fast lane? /island donate hand [amount] donates straight from whatever you're holding.

Under the hood, 2.24.0 also brings a major BentoBox platform bump, MiniMessage support across every locale, a brand-new Russian translation, and a handful of correctness fixes that make the top ten leaderboard and several block icons behave properly again.

✨ Highlights

💎 Block donation (#412, #220)

• New /island donate chest-style GUI — drag blocks in, see a live points preview, confirm to donate
• /island donate hand [amount] for one-click donations from the held stack
• New ISLAND_BLOCK_DONATION protection flag gates who can donate. Default is owner-only; configurable down to Member rank (lower ranks are blocked at the flag UI level)
• Donated points are persisted per-island and automatically re-added after every /island level recalculation — no more losing your contribution to a level rebuild
• New DONATED tab in the island detail panel showing donation history
• Admin level report now includes a donated-blocks breakdown
• Legacy islands with no donation data load cleanly — all new fields are null-safe

📊 Smarter level formulas

• New island_members placeholder for the level-cost equation so you can handicap larger teams (#411)
• New {gamemode}_points_to_next_level placeholder for scoreboards and HUDs (#405)

🌐 Localization overhaul

• All locale files migrated to MiniMessage formatting via the BentoBox 3.14.0 bump
• 🆕 Russian (ru.yml) locale added
• Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese locales brought up to date with en-US

🐛 Fixes

• Top ten ordering no longer drifts under concurrent writes — replaced LinkedHashMap with ConcurrentHashMap and invalidate the cache on update (#403)
• Block icons for hanging signs, vines, and cave vines now render correctly in value and detail panels (#404)
• Donation panel lore no longer leaks colors across lines, and default italic is stripped from item names

⚙️ Compatibility

✔️ BentoBox API 3.14.0 ✔️ Minecraft 1.21.x — if you need older versions, use an older Level release ✔️ Java 21

🔺 Updating — important notes

🔡 Locales. Locale files have been migrated to MiniMessage. Regenerate any customised locale files if you have them, or port your customisations over manually.

🔺 Detail panel template. The DONATED tab is a new entry in panels/detail_panel.yml. Panel templates are not overwritten on upgrade, so existing servers must delete plugins/BentoBox/addons/Level/panels/detail_panel.yml to regenerate it — otherwise the new donation tab will not appear.

⚙️ New flag. ISLAND_BLOCK_DONATION is registered on first start and defaults to owner-only. Adjust in your protection flag panel if you want members to be able to donate.

📥 How to update

1. Stop the server
2. Back up your BentoBox folder
3. Drop the new jar into the addons folder and remove the old one
4. Delete plugins/BentoBox/addons/Level/panels/detail_panel.yml so the template regenerates
5. Start the server

Legend

• 🔡 locale files may need to be regenerated or updated
• ⚙️ config options have been removed, renamed, or added
• 🔺 special attention needed

What's Changed

• Fix top ten ordering: replace LinkedHashMap with ConcurrentHashMap for thread safety by @copilot-swe-agent in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/Level/pull/403
• Fix incorrect icons for hanging signs, vines, and cave vines in panels by @copilot-swe-agent in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/Level/pull/404
• Add {gamemode}_points_to_next_level placeholder by @copilot-swe-agent in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/Level/pull/405
• Add Russian (ru) locale with MiniMessage formatting by @copilot-swe-agent in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/Level/pull/407
• Add island_members variable to level formula for team-size handicap support by @copilot-swe-agent in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/Level/pull/411
• Add block donation feature by @tastybento in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/Level/pull/412

Full Changelog: https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/Level/compare/2.23.0...2.24.0