MobTag

Added:

• MiniMessage support for all tag and message formats, alongside the existing colour codes
• /mobtag toggle <mobs|players|damage> for toggling your own tags without opening the menu
• /mobtag admin debug showing active tag counts, update loop timing and hook status
• Player health tag toggle in the settings menu
• Option to hide tags on mobs that are at full health
• Option to hide tags a set number of seconds after a mob leaves combat
• Options to hide tags on invisible mobs and on vanished players
• Configurable list of metadata keys to skip, for NPC and pet plugins
• Configurable extra boss types, with Warden and Elder Guardian included by default
• Per entity type tag height offsets
• Timeout setting for how long DAMAGER mode remembers who hit a mob
• Line of sight requirement for LOOKING_AT mode, so walls now block targeting
• Repeated hits on the same mob now stack into one running damage total
• Per player limit on how many damage numbers can be on screen at once
• Option to attach armor stand tags directly to the mob for perfectly smooth movement
• Debug option that logs the full details when something goes wrong internally
• New placeholders: health percentage, health bar, and your own mob tag and damage indicator toggle states
• New mobtag.use base permission, granted to everyone by default
• Customizable messages for the toggle command
• Automatic cleanup of leftover tag armor stands after an unclean server shutdown
• Automatic config updating that adds new options while keeping your existing settings
• Anonymous usage statistics through bStats, which you can opt out of at any time

Fixed:

• Hex colours (&#RRGGBB) were stripped to broken characters and never rendered
• Damage numbers faded out, then flashed back to full brightness and faded again
• Anything riding a tagged mob visually fell off, including players on horses and chicken jockeys
• Tags detached and floated in place when a player re-entered a mob's range
• Bows, crossbows, tridents, snowballs and splash potions triggered no damage numbers at all
• Per player tag toggles were ignored entirely in ArmorStand mode
• In LOOKING_AT mode one player looking at a mob showed the tag to everyone
• LOOKING_AT mode created a tag for every mob on the server regardless of range
• Every mob a player ever hit stayed in memory for the lifetime of the server
• The ignore-players setting had no effect
• Health percentages showed a comma instead of a decimal point on some servers
• Mobs with zero maximum health displayed NaN
• Items could be dragged into the settings menu and lost
• Tab completion suggested sub-commands that did not match what was typed
• Reloading tried to re-register the PlaceholderAPI expansion each time
• Reloading and shutting down cancelled unrelated scheduled work
• Several config defaults did not match the values in the generated config file
• Tags appeared on spectators, and on your own head with player tags enabled

Improved:

• Rewrote the update loop to search outward from players instead of scanning every mob in every world, so cost now scales with nearby mobs rather than total server population
• LOOKING_AT mode now traces once per player per tick instead of once per player per mob
• Health bars are pre-rendered on load, removing all bar building work from the update loop
• Tag text is built once per mob unless placeholders actually differ between viewers
• All damage numbers now run on a single shared timer instead of one timer each
• Tag preference saving is now batched and moved off the main server thread
• Peaceful mob detection now uses mob behaviour, so new and modded animals work automatically
• Boss detection no longer relies on a hardcoded list
• Damage numbers now appear on the mob's surface facing you instead of inside its model
• Tags no longer cover a mob's own custom name, which is kept on a second line
• Update checker now uses connection timeouts and compares versions numerically
• Bedrock detection no longer re-resolves the Floodgate API on every tag render
• Settings menu is identified reliably and no longer depends on its title text
• Internal errors are now logged when debug is on instead of being silently discarded
• Rewrote the config file comments and fixed several typos