DonutShards 2.0.0 "Sweet Spots"

The biggest DonutShards update yet: AFK zones you draw in game with their own payouts, a boss bar that counts down to every payout, server-wide boosters, a shop with Daily Deals and leaderboards that stand in your world. One jar for Paper, Folia and Purpur on Minecraft 1.20.1 to 26.3. Your balances, zones and settings carry over: no migration.

New

• Sweet Spot Wand (/shardmanager zone wand): left-click and right-click two blocks, then /shardmanager zone create <name> makes a box zone. zone pos1|pos2 sets a corner where you stand. Spheres from 1.x still work.
• Per-zone settings: /shardmanager zone set <zone> shards|interval|permission|display-name <value>. A VIP zone that pays 3 shards every 30 seconds is two commands.
• AFK boss bar: zone name, the next payout, a live countdown and the session total.
• Per-player timers: the interval starts when you walk in; walk out (or log off) and it stops. No more payouts for arriving one second before a server-wide tick.
• Session summary when you leave a zone: time spent and shards earned.
• Boosters: /shardmanager booster start 2 1h Weekend doubles AFK and kill rewards for everyone, with a booster boss bar; it survives restarts. /shards booster shows it.
• Rank multipliers: shards.multiplier.<x> (the highest wins).
• Daily Deals: a rotating row of offers in /shardshop, the same for every player, with a countdown and a per-player limit that is checked together with the payment.
• Leaderboard boards: /shardmanager board create <name> puts a live top 10 in the world (no hologram plugin).
• History: /shards history for players, /shardmanager history <player> and /shardmanager info <player> for staff (also from the console and RCON).
• Placeholders: %donutshard_zone%, %donutshard_next_reward%, %donutshard_session%, %donutshard_booster%, %donutshard_booster_time%.
• API: getActiveBoosterMultiplier(), getHistory(...); ShardRewardEvent, ShardPurchaseEvent and ShardTransferEvent are now fired (they never were in 1.x).

Fixed

• A second kill within the same second paid nothing (but still showed "+N Shard").
• %donutshard_balance% queried the database on the server thread; placeholders never block now.
• /shards pay never told the recipient; transfer.minimum, maximum and confirmation-threshold were ignored.
• Escaped placeholder values showed a stray \ before > in chat.
• shards.admin.give/take/set and shards.bypass.cooldown were declared but not checked.
• The API kept the transfer tax from startup after /shardmanager reload.
• gui.yml previous, next and filler were ignored by the leaderboard menu.

Changed

• Requires Paper, Folia or a Paper fork. 1.x listings claimed Spigot and Bukkit, which could never run it.
• Java 17 is enough on 1.20.1 servers (1.x needed Java 21).
• rewards.yml and anti-abuse.yml are no longer created (no version ever read them); old copies are ignored.
• Six permission nodes that did nothing are no longer declared (shards.admin.reset, rollback, migrate, gui, debug, shop).

Upgrading

Drop in the new jar. New config keys are added to your files without touching your values. An existing shop.yml keeps its layout and gets Daily Deals switched off (set deals.enabled: true and pick free slots). See CONFIGURATION.md.