MasterCombat - The Ultimate DonutCombat v5.2.5

New

• Debounce support for sync and async tasks
• Dynamic toggle for GlowManager
• Combat refresh for trident and ender pearl
• Unified checks for trident and ender pearl settings
• Projectile filter mode
• Default visibility options
• Expanded debug output
• Glow sync support
• Parallel scheduling
• Elytra disable system
• Extra config options for trident and pearl
• Updated ender pearl behavior
• Clearer config text
• Combat visibility settings
• Added missing dependencies
• Added SnakeYML
• Added sound alerts for blocked commands
• Smart CPU thread detection
• More scheduler types
• Legacy platform scheduler support

Fixes

• Timer sync between players
• Anchors not triggering combat
• EnabledWorlds not applied
• Self combat detection
• Duplicate pearl config removed
• Glowing no longer drops in combat
• Preserved custom list entries
• Access and usage issues
• Dependency errors
• Syntax errors
• Entity lookup issues
• Early exit in cache population
• Scheduler logger
• Switch logic
• Jitpack build failures

Improvements

• GlowManager metadata
• WorldGuard debug and barrier visuals
• CPU fallback
• Entity scheduling
• Combat cleanup and messages
• Concurrency and config performance
• Config merge and comments
• Prefix support for messages
• Config load helpers
• Respawn anchor logic
• Config utility

Refactoring

• Config format
• Code cleanup

Other

• Version updates
• Faster string and location handling
• Map cleanup
• Timer intervals
• Loop speed
• Lower memory use
• Reduced lookups
• Scheduler and glow improvements
• YAML formatting consistency
• Visibility permission flow
• Action bar refresh
• Enderpearl refresh
• Fishing rod cleanup
• Elytra item restriction
• Logic clarity
• Overworld raycast skip
• Anchor detection
• Vector detection
• Metadata handling
• Glowing sync with combat
• Config list updates
• PlaceholderAPI expansion and updates
• Health detection
• Config checks
• Distance and UUID work
• Loop based filtering and search
• ConfigUtil rebuilds merged
• Parsing
• Reload
• Glow visible only for combat players
• Less async scheduling
• Reduced world calls
• Border and escape checks
• Combat performance
• WorldGuard hook
• API update
• Maven and Lombok version bumps

Added

• Packet throttling to reduce combat tag spam
• Async processing through worker pool
• Caching with expiration
• Bulk cleanup operations
• Player-crystal relationship tracking for faster queries
• Smart entity caching with validation
• World-level caching to limit scanning
• Cache performance metrics

Improved

• Packet handling with PacketEvents 2.9.5
• World-specific entity tracking
• Memory usage with better cleanup

Optimized

• Early exits for invalid states to cut overhead
• Entity lookups with world update intervals
• Reduced redundant entity lookups

Results

• Faster packet handling
• More accurate combat tagging
• Lower load during crystal PvP
• Better memory efficiency
• Improved overall server performance

* Added more debug

* Improve performance

* Fixed respawn anchor doesnt cause combat event

* Fixed PacketEvents failed to inject into channel

* Fixed custom death message causes error

* Fixed direct combat damage

* Cleanup

Prevent PacketEvents.terminate() from running when API wasn’t initialized to eliminate repeated decoder/encoder warnings during shutdown.

Added:

• Event hooks for player damage, combat start, and combat end
• Visual combat indicators showing player combat status
• Combat logging prevention to stop unfair logout escapes
• New system for direct damage for faster checking
• New time format for Newbie Protection duration
• New settings for PvP protection duration
• New item & ability restrictions
• New ender pearl & trident settings

* New Canvas & Arclight support

* New Safe zone system preventing players from entering safe zones while in combat

Changed:

• Improved combat state tracking for accuracy and reliability
• Improved method names for clarity
• Improved logical flow
• Improved null safety in various places
• Improved metadata handling in respawn anchor damage
• Improved SuperVanish hook
• Optimized Placement Logic
• Enhanced movement restrictions during combat for fair play
• Enhanced combat tagging system
• Enhanced glowing system to remove glowing on kill/death
• Adjusted damage calculation for balanced PvP
• Updated API usage to align with latest server versions
• Added advanced scheduler system for papermc for better performance
• Added new checker to updater system

Fixed:

• Players bypassing safe zone restrictions while in combat
• Combat tag not resetting properly after logout or death
• Conflicts with other plugins affecting combat timers and checks
• Edge cases causing loss or incorrect application of combat state
• Rare crash caused by event listener registration issues
• Fixed issue where Config values would reset on update
• Fully backward compatible with Spigot and Paper-based servers
• Fixed issues with update system if player run them

Removed:

• Deprecated combat API methods removed for cleaner codebase
• Avoided unnecessary object creation
• Cleaned unused code
• No additional memory overhead from merge
• Reduced garbage collection pressure
• Removed intermediate collections and iterations
• Reduced CPU overhead during cleanup

This update introduces new and improved checks for faster combat tagging with many more accurate and quicker validations. It also fixes the delay between a hit and combat tagging, making it instantaneous with zero milliseconds delay. The new system performs combat tagging instantly.

* Optimized config updater

* Removed protection commands from help if disabled

* Fixed null point

* Fixed config updater

* Optimized Scheduling to avoid lag and excessive resource usage:

* Fixed exception while executing task

* Use chatutil for commands

* New command usages

* Add canvas support

* Added Paper Scheduler system

v4.14
* Improved Entity Lookup

* Enhanced Caching Strategy:
^ Added player-specific entity caching.
More efficient cache cleanup that removes only invalid entities


* Clear player cache on disconnect to prevent memory leaks

* Added a more efficient search by first checking entities near the player

+ Fixed incorrect updated jar name file

* Fixed some known bugs