Craft CUBE Clash 2.1

Craft CUBE Clash 2.1 is the largest stability and event-system update since the 2.0 rebuild.

This release focuses on making complete multi-day PvP events safer, more automated and easier to administer.

⭐ Major Changes

🏠 Team Cubes & Navigation

• Added improved automatic team-cube generation
• Improved schematic placement and validation
• Added persistent team cube positions
• Added team-colored particle beams above bases
• Team beams are now visible only to members of the corresponding team
• Locator markers are now private to the player's own team
• Improved team member navigation
• Added persistent base chunk loading
• Improved handling of underground team cubes

🪽 Start Flight

• Added automatic Elytra and Firework Rocket distribution
• Players receive their flight equipment immediately when protection begins
• Added landing detection
• Added a visible 10-second landing countdown
• Taking off again cancels the countdown
• Flight equipment is only permanently removed after the initial island departure and completed landing
• Improved reconnect handling during the initial flight

🛡️ Main Island Protection

• Added persistent central-island protection before the finale
• Players can travel underneath the island while the protected upper area remains inaccessible
• Added high-speed movement-path collision checks
• Fixed Elytra + rocket clipping into the protected island
• Added vehicle protection
• Improved teleport protection
• Removed the normal event World Border from the Main Phase

🌀 Teleport Exploit Protection

• Improved Ender Pearl wall-clipping detection
• Added post-teleport collision verification
• Disabled unsafe Chorus Fruit teleporting
• Added protection against entering restricted areas through teleports

⚔️ Combat & Death Bans

• Improved the 30-second Combat-Tag system
• Fixed Death-Ban kicks being detected as Combat-Logging
• Administrative unbans now also clear temporary combat state
• Added separate configurable bans for:
  • PvP deaths
  • Environmental deaths
  • Combat-Logging
  • Finale disconnects
• Environmental deaths during Protection are now handled correctly
• Improved inventory handling during Combat-Logging

💥 Event Rules

• Added optional Crystal-PvP disabling
• Added optional End dimension locking
• Improved protected-phase hostile mob handling
• Wild hostile mob spawning can be blocked without deleting intentionally placed or farm-related mobs

👥 Player Pool

• The player pool is now persistent
• Unknown players are no longer automatically registered when they join
• After setup is complete, only players already registered in the player pool are allowed to enter the event
• Existing player UUIDs remain authoritative even if a player's name changes

🏷️ Team Nametags

• Added team-colored player nametags
• Player names can display their assigned team
• Uses Minecraft scoreboard teams instead of additional display entities for lower overhead

⏱️ Event Timeline

• Improved automatic phase scheduling
• Manual phase jumps no longer permanently pause the configured schedule
• Automatic phase progression can recover after server downtime
• Added schedule catch-up after:
  • Server startup
  • Player join
  • Configuration reload
• Fixed phases jumping backwards
• Improved phase timer and MOTD status messages

🛑 Event Stop

• Stop Event is now a true event shutdown
• Stopping the event prevents old scheduled phases from restarting it
• Winner-animation tasks are cancelled correctly
• Finale daylight and invulnerability states are restored
• Delayed event tasks are cleaned up safely

🏆 Finale

• Improved team winner detection
• Fixed multiple teams receiving winner rewards
• Winner players are now stored in an exact UUID snapshot
• Added improved colored-island finale spawning
• Added colored-carpet spawn preference
• Team members can be spread across multiple carpet positions
• Offline players at finale start are treated as eliminated for that finale
• Players leaving an active finale can be eliminated and punished
• Improved finale persistence across server restarts
• Improved winner animations and automatic event ending

🌍 World Border

• The standard event World Border is used only where required
• No artificial Craft CUBE Clash World Border is active during the Main Phase
• The Finale uses its own dedicated World Border
• Improved World Border restoration after reloads and restarts

🔄 Generation & Restart Safety

• Improved setup-generation recovery
• Added generation-state persistence
• Improved controlled server restart handover
• Prevented duplicate Java server starts when the hosting panel already restarted the server
• Added safer rollback and recovery logic
• Improved cleanup of temporary generation state

⚙️ Performance & Stability

• Reduced unnecessary particle traffic
• Team beams are only sent to the correct team
• Reduced unnecessary team navigation processing
• Improved scheduled-task cleanup
• Improved entity and temporary marker cleanup
• Fixed multiple configuration fallback inconsistencies
• Improved source/project validation

🐛 Fixes

This release also includes many smaller fixes involving:

• Team assignment
• Schematic placement
• Cube spawning
• Event restarts
• Player reconnects
• Combat state
• Death-Ban handling
• Finale winner detection
• World Border state
• Winner animations
• Lobby transitions
• Start protection
• Elytra handling
• Teleport safety
• Player-pool persistence
• Source/export consistency

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📦 Requirements

• Minecraft: 26.1.2
• Server: Paper
• Java: Java 25 recommended
• WorldEdit: Optional, required for automatic schematic pasting

No Craft CUBE Clash client mod is required.