ApexSpawners v26.2.3

ApexSpawners Patch v26.2.3
The "Smart Navigation" Update

A quick Quality-of-Life update to make browsing shops and menus much smoother!

What's New?

• Smart Menus: The plugin now remembers exactly where you left off! Switching between "My Spawners" and the "Shop" no longer resets your page or filters.
• Lite Version: Messages now fully respect your personal language setting (including Italian!) and the "Available" filter in the Shop has been improved.

ApexSpawners Patch v26.2.2
The "Personalization & Polish" Update

This update focuses heavily on Player Quality of Life (QoL), UI design, and personalization. We are giving your community full control over their own experience, alongside massive visual upgrades and under-the-hood optimizations! Here is what changed:

New Features

• Per-Player Personalization (Language & Sounds): Players now have ultimate control! While admins can still set a global default language, players can now open the new "Preferences" Hub to individually select their own preferred language. Additionally, players who prefer a quiet experience can now entirely toggle off plugin-specific GUI sounds for themselves! (apexspawners.edit.settings)
• Player Settings Database: To support individual player choices, we have introduced a new, highly optimized SQLite database (player_settings.db). All personal settings are saved persistently and cached instantly upon joining for zero-lag UI interactions.
• Benvenuto, Italiano! We have officially added Italian (it) as a fully supported language out of the box!

Improvements & Polish

• Premium UI & Text Beautification: We have revamped the visual design of a few menus and messages. Shop titles, menus (like the new Admin Settings and Player Preferences), and item lores now feature stunning custom Apex gradients and cleaner, modern color contrasts for a true "Premium" feel.
• Language File Optimization: The internal structure of all .yml language files has been reorganized and optimized, making them much easier to read, navigate, and customize.
• Under-The-Hood Performance: Significant internal code cleanups, including asynchronous database inserts (Upsert logic), better caching mechanisms, and centralized utility classes to keep the plugin running perfectly smooth.

Bug Fixes

• Smart Update Checker: Completely rewrote the update checker logic. It now uses a strict numerical segment comparison instead of simple string matching. This ensures calendar-style versions are compared correctly, fixing false-positive update alerts and silencing notifications for unreleased dev-builds.

ApexSpawners Patch v26.2.1
The "Control & Performance" Update

This update brings a massive architectural change to ApexSpawners! We have completely rewritten the storage engine to use SQLite for maximum performance and introduced a highly requested feature: Permission-based Spawner Limits. Here is what changed:

New Features

• SQLite Database Engine: We have replaced the old locations.yml storage system with a high-performance SQLite database (database.db). This change ensures significantly faster loading times, reduced RAM usage, and better data integrity. Note: Your existing spawners will be automatically migrated on the first server start!
• Advanced Limit System: Server owners now have full control over how many spawners a player can place based on permissions.
  
  • Global Limit: Limit the total amount of spawners (e.g., apexspawners.limit.global.10)
  • Per-Mob Limit: Limit specific mob types (e.g., apexspawners.limit.type.IRON_GOLEM.5).
  • Bypass: Admins can bypass limits with apexspawners.limit.bypass.

Improvements & Polish

• Code Optimization: General internal cleanups and optimizations to ensure the plugin runs as efficiently as possible with the new database structure.
• Localization: Added new message keys to all language files (en, de, es, fr) to support the new limit system messages.

Bug Fixes

• Update Checker Fix: Fixed a bug where the plugin would incorrectly report that a new update is available when you were already using the latest version.

ApexSpawners Patch v26.1.12
The "Visual Polish" Update

This update focuses on cleaning up configuration files and polishing the visual experience. We have streamlined the language files to be much easier to read and fixed specific visual glitches. Here is what we changed:

Improvements & Polish

• Language File Optimization: We removed the <!italic> tags from the beginning of all messages that previously contained them. This makes the language files significantly slimmer, cleaner, and easier for you to edit.
• New Gradients: Several messages have been updated with fresh color gradients to give the plugin a more modern and premium look.
• Under the Hood: General internal optimizations to ensure the plugin runs as efficiently as possible.

Bug Fixes

• Price Editor Fix: Fixed a visual glitch where the negative sign (minus symbol) was displayed twice when editing prices.

ApexSpawners Patch v26.1.11
The "Code Clean-Up" Update

This is a minor update focused on under-the-hood optimizations to support future development.

ApexSpawners Patch v26.1.10
The "Performance & Lite" Update

This update marks a major milestone for ApexSpawners. We have significantly optimized the plugin core to be lighter and faster, while also laying the foundation for the free Lite version. This ensures maximum efficiency and seamless upgrades. Here is what we changed:

Performance & Optimization

• Size Reduction: Through advanced code optimization, we reduced the JAR file size by ~200KB, resulting in faster loading times and a cleaner footprint.
• Startup Efficiency: Improved internal structure and resource handling for better startup performance and reduced memory usage.

Lite Version Infrastructure

• Seamless Migration: We implemented 100% Data Compatibility. Users can now start with the Lite version and upgrade to Premium anytime without losing their configuration or placed spawners.
• Smart Filtering: Added a new "Available Mobs" filter logic to the Shop GUI (specifically for the Lite version) to clearly show accessible content.

ApexSpawners Patch v26.1.9
The "Connectivity & Stability" Update

This update focuses on keeping you connected and ensuring rock-solid stability. We implemented a smart update checker and fixed a critical internal error to keep your server running smoothly. Here is what we changed:

New Features

• Smart Update Notification: Admins are now notified on join if a new update is available. The notification includes direct, clickable links to both SpigotMC and BuiltByBit, making it easier than ever to keep your spawners up to date.
• Console Alerts: The server console now checks for updates asynchronously on startup and reports any new versions immediately without affecting start-up time.

Critical Fixes

• Error Message Fix: Fixed a critical issue where removing or modifying spawners could sometimes send an error message to the console.

ApexSpawners Patch v26.1.8
The "Cold Start" & Precision Update

We went deep into the engine room for this one. This update focuses on mathematical precision, caching performance, and fixing how spawners behave after server restarts. Here is what we changed:

Performance & Logic

• Instant Menu Access: We rewrote how the "Your Spawners" menu fetches data. Instead of scanning chunks (which caused lag), it now uses a smart RAM-Index. The menu opens instantly, even if you have hundreds of spawners spread across the world.
• The "Cold Start" Fix: Fixed a bug where spawners would spawn instantly (or spawn twice) immediately after a server restart or chunk load. Spawners now correctly detect if the server was offline and reset their timer instead of trying to "catch up" aggressively.
• Deployment Calibration: Newly placed spawners now correctly initialize at 0% progress. Previously, they sometimes started with a few ticks of progress already applied.

⏱ Precision Timing

• Decimal Time Banking: Previously, if your spawner had a delay of 10.5 seconds, the server tick rate (1s check) would force it to spawn at 11 seconds. We implemented a "Time Banking" system. If a spawn is 0.5s late, the next cycle starts 0.5s earlier. Your average spawn rates are now mathematically perfect over time!

👁 Visual Polish

• Hologram Stability: Fixed a visual glitch where spawners would briefly flash "Owner Out of Range" or show 100% progress for a split second when approaching them after a restart.
• Language files tweaks: Added color gradients to a few "Click to..." messages