StringRituals 2.0.0

A fresh visual overhaul and a pile of quality-of-life improvements. Recommended update for everyone.

Visuals — better particles, everywhere

• Ritual presets reworked from the ground up. Every ritual now renders with:
  • Twin rotating particle rings (clockwise + counter-clockwise) wrapping the ritual.
  • A rising pillar of energy straight up from the center.
  • Orbiting motes that drift around the ritual.
  • A periodic ground shockwave ring that pulses outward.
  • A per-theme signature flourish unique to each preset (lightning strikes, flame jets, snowfall, portal swirls, dragon's breath, sonic booms, and more).
• Particle colors, counts and motion are tuned per theme so each ritual feels distinct instead of a generic glow.
• Added a particles / sounds / lightning master toggle set in config.yml so server owners can dial visuals up or down.

Items

• Added four new custom weapons with unique right-click abilities and passives:
  • Cataclysm (Mace) — charged AoE impact with heavy knockback.
  • Eclipse (Netherite Sword) — passive speed + Shadow Dash.
  • Widowmaker (Netherite Sword) — mark, bleed and crippling strikes.
  • Oathbreaker (Netherite Sword) — shieldbreaker + exposed bonus damage.
• Custom weapons are locked from normal enchanting, anvils and grindstones so their kits stay intact.

Commands

• /string is now always available and fills your empty inventory slots with string. Can be disabled server-side via config.yml (string-command.enabled) — when disabled it simply does nothing.

Misc

• Bumped to Java 21 toolchain and updated the Paper API target to 1.21.11.
• Cleaner /ritual admin command with validation against the available preset names.
• General stability and cleanup pass across ritual/world-drop handling.

Compatibility

• Paper (and Paper forks like Purpur) only. Not Spigot/CraftBukkit.
• Requires Minecraft 1.21.x.