SpawnProtection 1.5

Added

• Death Effects – Optionally apply configurable potion effects to players on respawn after they die. Useful as a soft penalty or balancing mechanic alongside spawn protection.
  • New death-effects section in config.yml, disabled by default (enabled: false)
  • Define any number of named effects, each independently toggleable
  • Per-effect configuration:
    • type – any valid Bukkit PotionEffectType (e.g. WEAKNESS, SLOWNESS, BLINDNESS, REGENERATION, ...)
    • duration-seconds – effect duration
    • amplifier – effect level (0 = level 1)
    • ambient – translucent particle style toggle
    • particles – show/hide particles entirely
    • icon – show/hide the effect icon in the inventory
  • Comes pre-configured with a disabled weakness and slowness example to show the format

Notes

• No breaking changes. New config section is added automatically with sensible defaults (enabled: false); existing setups are unaffected unless explicitly enabled.

Added

• Live cooldown display for Mob Protection – Mob Protection now shows the remaining time in real time, matching the behavior already known from Spawn Protection. Previously it only sent a start and an end message.
  • Configurable via the new mob-protection.protection-display option (actionbar or bossbar, default: bossbar)
  • Bossbar mode shows remaining time as mm:ss with a depleting progress bar, in its own green bossbar so it never conflicts with Spawn Protection's bossbar
  • Bossbar automatically hides once the protection expires

Changed

• When both Spawn Protection and Mob Protection are active at the same time and both are set to actionbar, Spawn Protection takes priority on the shared actionbar line; Mob Protection's actionbar updates are skipped during that time to avoid flickering between the two messages.

Notes

• No breaking changes. New config option is added automatically with sensible defaults; existing setups continue to work unchanged.

Added

• Mob Protection – New time-limited protection against mobs and monsters, primarily aimed at first-join grace periods. While active, all mob/monster damage is cancelled, but PvP damage still goes through normally.
  • Configurable via mob-protection.first-join-seconds (default: 300)
  • Can be toggled with the new mob-protection.enabled flag
  • Automatically granted to first-time joiners alongside spawn protection, but managed independently from it
  • Players receive messages when mob protection starts and ends (mob-protection-started, mob-protection-ended)
  • Player-shot projectiles are correctly treated as PvP, not as mob damage

Changed

• All time settings now use seconds instead of minutes for greater precision and consistency. Affected: protection duration, first-join duration, claim duration, required online time, and related settings.
  • default-minutes → default-seconds
  • first-join-minutes → first-join-seconds
• Today playtime tracking refactored from minute-based to second-based tracking for more granular accuracy.
• /spawnprotection claim messages and calculations now reference seconds.

Performance

• Today playtime now caches base values to avoid repeated disk reads.
• Save frequency optimized: data is now persisted once per minute instead of on every increment, reducing disk I/O.

⚠️ Migration Note

All time-related config values changed from minutes to seconds. Existing configs are not auto-converted – update your values manually (e.g. 5 minutes → 300 seconds) or regenerate the config.

Added

• Implemented plugin metrics.
• All admin commands now require the permission: spawnprotection.admin
• Added new configuration option:

  protection:
    disable-attack-confirm: false
  

• Added config reload command
• Added tab-list configuration settings