SwiftCore - Duel,Party,FFA v4.5.4

• Further optimized social tab performance
• Replaced fake row UUID caching with lightweight per-viewer maps
• Cached social layout keys to reduce repeated processing during refreshes
• Improved social tab refresh efficiency and reduced overhead
• Added automatic cleanup of cached social data when tablists are removed or reset

• Fixed cross-server threading issues

• Match found effects and transfers now run safely on the main server thread
• Cross-server duel deny messages now send correctly without thread issues

• Improved Redis stability

• Redis message handlers now safely catch errors
• Prevents one bad Redis message from breaking the subscriber connection
• Reduces Redis/Jedis error chains and improves cross-server reliability

• Improved FFA tablist support

• Added support for nested FFA placeholders in tab.yml
• Added aliases for FFA player count placeholders
• FFA tab visibility now updates immediately when players join or leave
• Fixed players remaining visible in FFA tablists after leaving
• FFA player counts now refresh instantly without waiting for cache expiry

• Added disabled-kits support for round rewind
• New config: match.round-rewind.disabled-kits
• Kits listed in disabled-kits will skip the round rewind animation
• Affected kits now use instant teleport between rounds instead of rewind playback

• Added clan admin tools

• New admin command: /clan delete
• Clan delete and setpoints now work from console

• Added restricted clan names

• New config options for blocked clan names and patterns
• Applies to both clan creation and renaming

• Improved clan cache handling

• Clan restrictions reload with config reloads
• Clan leaderboard cache now refreshes automatically after clan changes

• Fixed CustomKitEditor access checks

• CustomKits can no longer be opened while busy in SwiftCore activities
• Blocks usage during matches, queues, bot duels, FFA, party games, tournaments, events, and spectating

• Optimized tablist performance

• Reduced expensive PlaceholderAPI processing in animated tablists
• Added smarter placeholder caching to avoid unnecessary recalculations
• Cached tablist placeholder results for faster updates
• Cached player profiles to reduce repeated skin/profile rebuilding
• Reduced unnecessary tablist refresh packets
• Optimized team sorting performance
• Improved social tab layout performance and caching
• Reduced packet spam from social/friends tab updates
• Optimized fake row handling and UUID generation

• Optimized database performance

• Improved friend and match history cleanup queries
• Added better database indexing for faster history pruning
• Reduced scheduler-thread database load and cleanup overhead

• Improved kit rule safety checks

• Stickspawn, Sumo, and BlockDecay now only run during valid active matches
• Prevents rules from triggering during ended matches or round transitions
• Sumo and BlockDecay now wait until the round has fully started before activating

• Optimized spawn item interactions

• Reduced unnecessary item metadata processing on player clicks
• Improved rematch item handling efficiency
• Optimized spawn item command lookups
• Reduces interaction-event overhead and improves overall responsiveness

• Added kit editor safeguards

• Added configurable shulker box editor toggle
• Added protection against kit editing immediately after leaving FFA
• Prevents pearl teleport exploits after leaving FFA
• Automatically clears leftover editor sessions on FFA leave

• Fixed ranked rematch abuse

• Ranked matches no longer create rematch data
• Ranked matches no longer give rematch items
• Prevents cross-server ranked rematch state from being stored

• Fixed queue placeholders and queue tracking

• %swiftcore_in_queue% now detects both ranked and unranked queues
• Cross-server queue placeholders now include ranked Redis queues
• Queue count placeholders now report ranked queue sizes correctly
• Queue state restoration now checks both ranked and unranked queues

• Fixed players joining queues while still in spectator mode
• Queue joining now automatically clears spectator state before matchmaking

• Improved matchmaking safety

• Prevents players from being matched against themselves
• Removes stale duplicate ranked queue entries
• Added extra validation for ranked and unranked matchmaking

• Improved spectator-to-queue transitions

• Players can move from spectating to queueing cleanly without lobby respawns or state issues

• Fixed battle-state protection issues

• Players can no longer join queues while already fighting, spectating, or participating in events
• Duel requests are now blocked for busy or spectating players
• Prevents matches from starting if a player becomes busy before match start
• Fixed queue GUI, commands, signs, auto-requeue, and delayed requeue paths to properly respect failed queue joins

• Fixed tournament leave cleanup issue

• Players who leave tournaments are no longer affected by delayed tournament cleanup
• Prevents being teleported, rewarded, or having titles applied after leaving a tournament
• Fixes players being pulled out of party fights by old tournament tasks

• Fixed Party FFA round handling

• Party FFA no longer ends instantly when everyone dies at the same time
• Simultaneous deaths are now handled correctly
• Single survivors win the round normally
• Draw rounds continue to the next round instead of ending the match incorrectly

• Fixed round transition issues

• Prevents deaths, void damage, and boundary damage during round transitions
• Stops delayed countdowns from causing extra losses
• Blocks block breaking and placing during round processing and final victory delays
• Prevents stale next-round tasks from running after a match has already ended

• Fixed party forfeit rejoin bug

• Players who surrender can no longer be pulled back into later rounds
• Properly removes forfeited players from all team, roster, spectator, and combat tracking systems

• Fixed party tablist issues

• Party members no longer appear twice in Friends and Party columns
• Party section now stays correctly positioned in the second column
• Fixed lobby social tab not switching correctly when party matches start
• Party FFA, Split, and VS Party now properly apply match tablists when the game begins

• Added Open Challenge system with clickable public duel broadcasts
• Challenges automatically expire and can rebroadcast until accepted
• Added /settings openchallengebroadcast and GUI toggle
• Permission: swiftcore.openchallenge
• Fully supports arena selection, random kits, kit permissions, and duel safety checks

• Fixed party elimination spectator issue
• Eliminated players in single-round Party FFA, Split, and VS Party now correctly enter spectator mode
• Prevents eliminated players from remaining visible inside active matches

• 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