• Added protection against EntityChangeBlockEvent.
• Added support for bamboo rafts.
• Added protection for additional modern interactive blocks.
• Player message cooldown data is now cleaned when a player leaves the server.
• Fixed bamboo rafts not being detected as entity-placement items.

New Features

Added MessageService Added centralized protection messages with configurable cooldown. Prevents chat spam when players repeatedly trigger protections. Cooldown is configurable through settings.message-cooldown-seconds.

Added Fire Protection Added a dedicated fire protection category. Fire protection is now independent from interaction protection.

Added Inventory Transfer Protection Added inventory-transfer protection. Prevents hoppers and inventories from moving items into or out of protected inventories.

Added Environment Protection Added environment protection. Prevents natural block changes inside protected areas,

Improvements /spl info now displays: Fire protection status Inventory transfer protection status Environment protection status Message cooldown value

Configuration

Added:

protections: fire: true inventory-transfer: true environment: true

settings: message-cooldown-seconds: 1.5

Added new messages:

messages: no-fire: ... no-environment: ...

Migration Configuration version updated to v6. Existing configurations are migrated automatically.

• Added environmental damage protection for protected entities.
• Protected entities are now safe from fire, lava, cactus, suffocation, drowning and other non-player damage sources.
• Fixed entity interaction handling so off-hand interactions can no longer bypass protection.
• Added protection against picking up bucketable entities inside protected areas.
• Expanded protected entity coverage for AbstractVillagers, Wandering Traders, Allays, ambient entities and Sniffers.
• Improved config self-healing.
• Improved world load handling by refreshing the protection area whenever the configured world loads.
• Improved /spl info to use cached protection flags.

• Fixed PvP protection so attacks are blocked when either the attacker or the victim is inside the protected area.
• Added protection against filling buckets from water/lava sources inside the protected area.
• Added support for physical interactions such as pressure plates, farmland trampling and turtle eggs.
• Fixed preview permissions: /spl preview now requires spawnprotection.preview or admin permission.
• Added English fallback for missing or invalid configured languages.
• Added validation for invalid spawn radius values.
• Added repeater and comparator interaction protection.
• Limited fluid flow checks to water and lava only.

### Fixed

• Fixed FireListener not respecting the protection configuration in some cases.
• Fixed fire spread and block burning being cancelled even when the related protection setting was disabled.
• Fixed admin bypass not being respected properly for some fire-related events.
• Fixed FLINT_AND_STEEL being partially allowed in protected areas.
• Fixed a case where players outside the protected radius could ignite fire inside the protected area by clicking protected border blocks.
• Fixed fire-starting item checks by validating:
• the player location
• the clicked block location
• the target fire location
• Fixed radius preview being visually misleading when check-y-axis: true. ### Improved
• Improved FireListener consistency with the rest of the protection system.
• Improved InteractListener checks for fire-starting items.
• Improved /spawnprotection preview:
• prevents preview with invalid radius values
• stops if the player changes world
• displays three circles in spherical mode to better represent 3D protection
• Improved internal code cleanup by removing unused dead code.

## SpawnProtection v1.4.0 — World Protection Mode

This update adds a new protection area mode, making SpawnProtection more flexible for both simple survival servers and dedicated hub/lobby worlds. **

Added**

• Added protection-area.mode.
• Added support for two protection modes:
  • radius — protects an area around the configured spawn world center.
  • world — protects the entire configured world.
• Added automatic config migration to config-version: 3.
• /spawnprotection info now shows the active protection area mode.

### Changed

• Protection checks are now centralized internally through the plugin protection area logic.
• All listeners now respect the selected protection mode automatically.
• Radius settings are now ignored when using world mode.
• /spawnprotection info now displays clearer information depending on the selected mode.

### Improved

• Better support for dedicated lobby/hub worlds.
• Server owners can now protect an entire lobby world without WorldGuard, regions, or complex setup.
• Existing radius-based protection remains available for simple survival servers where the spawn is inside the main world.

### Compatibility

• Existing configs are migrated automatically.
• Existing values are preserved during migration.
• A backup is created before migration.
• config-version is now 3.
• Existing commands, aliases and permissions remain unchanged.
• No manual config deletion is required.

### Example

Protect only a spawn radius:

protection-area:
  mode: "radius"

spawn:
  world: "world"
  radius: 50
  check-y-axis: false

### Fixed

• Fixed a small protection gap where players could still use FIRE_CHARGE to start fires inside the protected spawn area.
• Fire-starting item protection now covers both:
• FLINT_AND_STEEL
• FIRE_CHARGE

### Improved

• Improved command message formatting consistency.
• /spawnprotection help and /spawnprotection info now use the same internal color formatting utility as the rest of the plugin.

SpawnProtection v1.2.0 — Better Spawn Area Configuration

Added

• Added spawn.world.

• Server owners can now choose which world spawn should be protected.

• SpawnProtection no longer depends on the first loaded world.

• Added spawn.check-y-axis.

• false: uses cylindrical protection based only on X/Z distance.

• true: uses spherical protection including height difference.

• Added protection mode details to /spawnprotection info.

• Protected world

• Radius

• Protection mode

• Y-axis check status

• Configured language

• Added a built-in config migration system.

Changed

• SpawnProtection now uses the configured world from spawn.world.
• Radius checks now support both cylindrical and spherical protection.
• Cylindrical protection is now the default mode.