CoreArena - Physical Engine Mob Arenas v4.9.6

• New | Added Arena.Class_Select_Sound in settings.yml so you can customize the sound played when a player selects a kit/class (defaults to ENTITY_ENDER_DRAGON_AMBIENT 1F 1F).
• New | Added Join_Broadcast_Target per arena in arenas/.yml to control who sees the "PLAYER joined the lobby" message - choose ARENA (default), WORLD, or SERVER to let everyone on the server see and squad up.
• Improve | Reduced LiteBans mute polling from every 2 seconds to every 30 seconds to prevent "Connection pool exhaustion detected (open=100, max=100)" errors when multiple MineAcademy plugins run on the same server, with a 5-minute back-off on database failures.

• Fix | Player-only commands no longer crash when run from console

• Fix | Solved "Cannot use announce without a player" crash when using @announce, @warn, @error, @info, @question or @success in arena console commands. These commands now auto-iterate over arena players
• Fix | Solved the same null player crash in per-player console commands (runAsConsole)

• Fix | Solved "IllegalArgumentException: data (class [I) should be class java.lang.Void" when spawning particles on Paper 26.1+
• Fix | Fixed falling block physics not handling negative Y on MC 1.18+ worlds
• Fix | Fixed block scanning and region methods not handling negative Y on MC 1.18+
• Fix | Fixed scoreboard flickering on legacy Minecraft

• Fix | Solved "UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot remove player" on Paper when a Player riding an entity joins an arena

• New | Compatible with Minecraft 26.1
• New | Added per-category reward toggles and class upgrades toggle. Configurable in settings.yml
• New | Added /ma upgrade command
• New | Added ArenaPhaseEndEvent and ArenaPhaseStartEvent for developers
• Improve | Item names are now translatable via lang/en_US.json
• Fix | Track arena-spawned mobs by UUID, fixing mobs not being properly tracked during phases
• Fix | Solved \n in commands kicking players on Minecraft 26.1

• Fix | Solved "NoSuchMethodError: 'java.lang.String net.kyori.adventure.text.minimessage.MiniMessage.stripTags(java.lang.String)'" on servers with older MiniMessage

• Improve | Improved internal crash reporting — only report errors on the latest plugin version