SwiftCore - Duel,Party,FFA v4.5.8

• Fixed TNT Tag explosions triggering after players leave matches
• TNT Tag timers now properly cancel during duel end, surrender, party leave, and /leave
• TNT helmets and actionbars now clear correctly after cleanup

• Fixed /spectator leave item reliability

• Spectator leave items now work correctly even if spawn-item tracking resets
• Improved spectator cleanup execution for more reliable leaving

• Fixed arena outbound death messages

• Arena boundary deaths now correctly use the configurable arena-boundary-death message
• Applies to duels, party fights, and FFA outbound deaths

• Added more configurable messages

• surrender-success
• opponent-surrendered
• arena-boundary-warning

• Added right-click duel GUI toggle

• New config: gui.right-click-player-duel-gui-enabled
• Can disable lobby right-click duel requests while keeping /duel and other duel menus working normally
• Setting is cached and refreshes automatically on reload

• Improved arena reset cleanup

• Arena resets now remove leftover entities across all reset types
• Cleans dropped items, TNT, projectiles, minecarts, and other leftover entities before and after arena resets
• Prevents previous matches from affecting the next game

• Improved duel request safety

• Prevents multiple matches from starting through simultaneous duel accepts
• Clears stale duel requests when a duel begins
• Added extra validation for GUI, command, and cross-server duel accepts

• Improved spectate safety checks

• Players can no longer spectate while editing kits, queued, fighting, in parties, tournaments, or events
• Added extra validation for spectate GUI and cross-server spectating

• Improved overall server performance and reduced unnecessary processing
• Optimized tablist, scoreboard, queue GUI, HP indicator, and duel GUI systems
• Reduced lag spikes during player disconnects and states saving
• Improved arena reset and cached GUI handling
• Fixed invalid duel GUI sessions causing menu errors/crashes
• Added safer handling for broken or missing kit data
• Improved config/dialog caching for faster GUI response times

• Fixed kill message disabling

• kill-messages.enabled: false now fully disables custom kill messages
• Vanilla death messages still remain suppressed during duels

• Improved fight count placeholders

• Fight counts now track real active players per kit
• Counts active duels and party games for that kit
• Excludes FFA arenas from totals
• Properly normalizes ranked and non-ranked kit names

• Updated across multiple systems

• PlaceholderAPI: %swiftcore_in_fight_count_%
• Cross-server placeholder handling
• Queue GUI
• Ranked Queue GUI

• Added configurable Unranked placeholder text

• New config option: placeholders.unranked-tier-name
• Used by %swiftcore_tier_rank% and related placeholders
• Supports normal & colors and hex colors

• Added full per-kit permission system

• Cached permission-required and permission-node support from kits.yml
• Default permission format: swiftcore.play.
• Added configurable no-permission messages with placeholder support
• Added central permission helpers in KitManager

• Permission checks now apply to:

• Unranked queue
• Ranked queue
• Duel requests and accepts
• Party FFA/Split/VsParty
• Party challenges
• Bot duels
• Cross-server duel requests

• Added new admin permission commands

• /kit permission required <true|false>
• /kit permission node <permission|default>
• Includes tab completion support

• Fixed MiniMessage formatting in inventory-see messages

• Fixed hover text breaking from apostrophes in names
• Prevents raw text appearing in chat

• Added ranked streak bonus system

• High win streaks can grant extra ranked points
• High loss streaks can remove extra ranked points
• Streak settings are cached in RankedManager

• Added ranked streak database tracking

• Added persistent win_streak and lose_streak database columns

• Added Focus Mode system

• Hides opponent names as ??? during active duels
• Applies to messages, placeholders, scoreboards, tablist, nametags, and bot duels
• Instantly refreshes when toggled

• Fixed post-match restore issues

• Tablist rows, prefixes, nametags, and player names now restore correctly after matches

• Added Party Info GUI

• /party info can now open a configurable GUI
• Shows leader and members with player heads and roles
• Added split-team viewer support
• Chat fallback still works when GUI is disabled

• Fixed party item role filtering

• Owner-only party items no longer appear for members
• Party Info item can still remain visible for everyone

• Improved spawn item actions

• Spawn item commands now use persistent metadata instead of display-name matching
• Spectator leave items now work more reliably
• Spawn item actions now support both left-click and right-click

• Fixed instant-start countdown delay

• countdown-time: 0 now skips countdown waiting completely
• Players can now fight instantly when countdown is disabled

• Added TNT minecart spectator collision protection

• Spectators no longer collide with TNT/explosive minecarts
• Collision is now safely cancelled using VehicleEntityCollisionEvent

• Optimized bed recoloring system

• Added persisted bedLocations cache per arena
• Bed recoloring now only updates cached bed blocks instead of scanning the full arena
• Reduces match-start lag and unnecessary cuboid scans

• Added automatic bed cache refresh

• Refreshes when admins set corner1, corner2, or run /arena update

• Fixed unnecessary Bridge goal checks causing move lag

• Removed global bridge checks from PlayerMoveEvent handling
• Lobby players and non-match players no longer trigger bridge goal logic on movement

• Bridge goal checks now only run when needed

• Active BRIDGE rule matches now use optimized scheduled checks
• Duel move checks only run for players inside active bridge matches

• Reduced profiler spikes from:

• onPlayerMove → checkBridgeGoal → getMatch()

• Result

• Lower movement overhead in lobby
• Reduced unnecessary match lookups
• Better overall server performance during high player counts

• Fixed bot duel block/place interaction issue

• Bot duel players no longer get blocked by pending match-transfer checks
• Prevents block placing/interactions from being cancelled during active bot fights
• Fixes QueueManager match-found state interfering with bot duels

• Fixed duel requests during bot fights

• Players can no longer send or accept duels while in bot fights
• Covers commands, GUI accepts, backend accepts, and cross-server duel accepts
• Also blocks sending duel requests to players currently fighting bots
• Prevents normal duels from overriding active bot fights and leaving bots stuck in arenas

• Fixed /spectate while in party state

• Players can no longer spectate while inside parties
• Added extra cross-server safety validation

• Added Match & ELO History API

• Match history endpoint with kit/ranked filters
• Added ELO history and summary endpoints
• Ranked matches now track global and per-kit ELO changes
• Added configurable 30-day ELO history retention

• Added Custom Kit Items system

• New CUSTOM_ITEMS kit rule
• Added /kit customitems admin command
• Added admin and player custom item GUIs
• Supports paginated custom item browsing/editing
• Added refill protection to prevent duplication exploits
• Added full KitEditor integration for supported kits

• Fixed API player name resolving

• Added player_names table to store latest player names by UUID
• Player names now save automatically on join
• API now resolves names using cached names, stored names, and match history
• Removed random UUID-style fallback names

• Fixed leaderboard overall calculation

• Overall rankings now calculate from per-kit ratings and starting tiers
• Prevents incorrect overall ranks caused by outdated global points

• Added new overall placeholder aliases

• %swiftcore_overall_rank%
• %swiftcore_overall_tier%
• %swiftcore_overall_points%
• %swiftcore_overall_elo%
• %swiftcore_rank%
• All now use the updated overall ELO calculation system

• Fixed global ranked API data

• /api/leaderboard/global now uses overall ELO averages instead of old global tier points
• ranked.elo and ranked.tier player lookups now use the same overall ELO logic
• Offline players from kitsrank.yml can now appear correctly in global rankings

• Fixed post-match ender pearl teleports

• Added a short 5-second pearl teleport block after matches end
• Removes active pearls and cancels delayed pearl teleports only during cleanup
• Applied to normal duels, queue matches, party games, and bot duels

• Fixed party commands while queued

• Players can no longer use /p join, /p accept, and similar party commands while queued or after finding a match
• Players now receive:
  "You cannot join or manage a party while queued! Leave the queue first, then try again."

• Fixed party kick messaging

• Party owners now correctly receive kick confirmation messages
• Kicked players now properly receive kicked notifications

• Fixed party kick match-state issues

• /party kick now fully removes players from active party fights before kicking them
• Prevents kicked players from remaining stuck in match state

• Fixed party FFA ending logic

• Alive player counting now ignores eliminated players, spectators, and temporary respawn spectators
• Fixes 3+ player party fights not ending correctly when only one active player remains

• Fixed party tab positioning

• Added party-start-row setting in tab.yml
• Party section now always starts in a fixed column position regardless of friend count
• Default setup keeps Party in the second tab column cleanly

• Fixed party owner sync issues

• Ownership transfer now keeps the same global party ID
• Tablist and scoreboard now properly sync the correct party leader after ownership changes
• Party-game owner changes now also update the real PartyManager owner during active matches

• Fixed NPC duel interaction issue

• Lobby duel interactions now ignore NPC and fake-player entities
• Clicking Citizens or NPC-tagged entities will no longer open the duel menu

• Added new duel GUI placeholders

• Supported in display names and lore:
  • %kit%
  • %kit_id%
  • %player%
  • %target%

• Updated default duelgui.yml

• Added display-name support for all default kits

• Removed hide/show player setting

• Removed visible-player option from player settings menu
• Removed old hide-player handling and toggle methods
• Players now always display normally in lobby

• Fixed kit editor potion effect leak

• Active potion effects are now cleared correctly when:
  • Saving editor changes
  • Auto-saving on close
  • Resetting layouts
  • Leaving the editor
  • Disconnecting while editing
• Fixes issues like permanent Speed II remaining after editing kits

• Added lobby right-click duel shortcut

• Right-cliking a player in lobby now opens the duel kit GUI
• Only works while both players are in lobby state
• Automatically blocks usage during queue, duels, FFA, party games, tournaments, events, spectator mode, etc.
• Respects player duel request settings

• Fixed /p leave cleanup during party fights

• /p leave now uses the normal party-game quit handling
• Properly removes players from active game and team lists
• Match win/end checks now run correctly after leaving
• Remaining players are correctly returned to lobby with restored party state and items in 2-player party fights