📜 Divine Hordes Changelog

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🛡️ [2.6.0] - 2025-06-17

✨ The Quality of Life & Fairness Update

🌟 Major Features

💎 Rare Item Protection System

No more losing your most precious items!

• 🚫 100+ Protected Items: Dragon eggs, nether stars, netherite gear, and more
• 🎲 Smart Fallback System: Automatically switches to fair alternatives if needed
• ⚖️ Balanced Requirements: Maintains challenge without unfair losses
• 📦 Applies Everywhere: Offerings, bounty boxes, and rewards

🔍 View Protected Items Categories

• Unique Items: Dragon Egg, Elytra, Totem of Undying
• Boss Drops: Nether Star, Wither Skeleton Skulls
• Expensive Blocks: Diamond/Emerald/Gold/Iron/Netherite blocks
• All Netherite Equipment: Tools, armor, and blocks
• Collectibles: Music Discs, Enchanted Books, Shulker Boxes
• 1.20+ Items: Smithing Templates, Armor Trims, Pottery Sherds

🏔️ Underground Player Support

Cave dwellers rejoice! You can now participate from the depths!

• 🎯 Intelligent Chest Spawning: Three-tier system ensures everyone can participate
• 📏 Dynamic Distance Scaling: Automatically adjusts for underground players
• 😄 Snarky Divine Messages: 7 new humorous responses when spawning fails
• 🔄 Auto-Retry System: Failed spawns retry in 5 minutes automatically

🖥️ GUI Experience Improvements

Cleaner, clearer, more intuitive!

• 📚 Better Information Flow: "How to Play" → "Find Chest" → "Change Offering"
• 🎨 Reorganized Layout: Educational content first, actions second
• ✨ Cleaner Design: Removed misleading "Click to change!" text
• 🔄 Improved Button Positions: More logical left-to-right progression

🛠️ Technical Improvements

• New Utility Classes: RareItemFilter for comprehensive item management
• Enhanced Detection: Better underground player identification
• Configuration Options: Full control over underground spawning behavior
• Performance: Optimized item checking with HashSet lookups
• Compatibility: 100% backwards compatible, no migration needed
• Minecraft 1.21.6 Ready: Forward compatible with upcoming 1.21.6 release

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed underground players unable to participate in events
• Fixed chest spawning failures in cave systems
• Fixed misleading GUI text suggesting non-clickable items were interactive
• Fixed rare items being requested as offerings
• Fixed chest spawning in bedrock layers

📊 By The Numbers

• 100+ rare items protected
• 3 tier fallback system for spawning
• 7 new Divine One messages
• 6 dynamic distance reductions (100→80→60→40→20→10)
• 0 backwards compatibility issues

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