WelcomeMat 1.4.0 - Minecraft 26.x, Languages & Interface Overhaul 🎉

🚀 What's New

• Minecraft 26.x Support ✨
  • Fully verified for 26.1.2, 26.2, and 26.3.
  • One single .jar now covers 1.13 through 26.3 — no more guessing which build to grab.
  • Java 25 ready, matching the new Minecraft 26.1+ requirement.
• Per-player On/Off Switch 🔛
  • /wm on and /wm off let any player disable WelcomeMat just for themselves.
  • Preferences persist between restarts.
  • Admins stay in control: set features.allow-player-toggle: false to lock it down.
• New Languages 🌍
  • Full translations for French, Romanian, German, and Chinese Simplified.
  • The Language menu now builds itself automatically from whatever languages you have installed.
• Permissions Overhaul 🔐
  • Handy parent groups: welcomemat.player, welcomemat.admin, and welcomemat.*.
  • Granular nodes for gui, splash, animation.test, pack.create, and pack.mode.
  • Autocomplete now only suggests commands you're actually allowed to use.

🎨 Interface Overhaul

• Rebuilt settings menu with clear labelled sections so nothing feels like a guessing game.
• New buttons: Animations, Join Effects, and your personal WelcomeMat toggle — all in one place.
• Bug fix: the Join Effects toggle no longer overwrites the Language button.
• Restyled help panel (/wm) with cleaner colors and permission-aware entries.

🧹 Cleaner Configuration

• Say goodbye to sounds.join.sound — use /wm config set join-sound ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP.
• Friendly names like join-sound, leave-sound, and message-pack everywhere, in the GUI, commands, and console.
• Sounds now read "Player Level Up" instead of ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP.

🔄 Compatibility

• Fully tested on Bukkit/Spigot, Paper, Purpur, and Folia from Minecraft 1.13 through 26.3.
• Region-aware schedulers provide a single-jar solution for both standard and Folia-based servers.
• Minecraft 26.1+ requires Java 25 at runtime.

🐛 Fixes & Maintenance

• Confetti Burst no longer spams missing required data class org.bukkit.Color on 26.x.
• Fixed operators being wrongly skipped by welcome messages.
• Modernized all sound name fallbacks for long-term compatibility.
• Config migration is now more robust — new languages appear even if migration is skipped.

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