🔮 G1ax Crystal Optimizer Release Notes

🚀 Version 1.0.4

Integrated PerformanceGuard: A nanosecond-precision, ping-adaptive rate limiter with independent budgets for placing and breaking to maximize PvP performance.
Added OptOutCache: Multi-server session-persistent opt-out memory that retains server-requested disable states across logins (up to 10 servers).
Handshake Protocol Integration:
- VersionPacket (C2S): Announces current project version to server.
- ServerOptOutPacket (S2C): Receives server instructions to disable the optimizer, displaying a clean hoverable notification in game.
- OptOutAckPacket (C2S): Acknowledges server opt-out commands.

Added UpdateChecker.java — a lightweight background update checker powered by the public Modrinth API (no API key required).
On mod load, a daemon thread silently fetches the latest published version from api.modrinth.com.
The first tick the player enters a world, if a newer version is available, a single beautifully formatted notification is displayed in chat with the download link and custom dev contact.
Shows once per session only — no spam.
If already on the latest version, completely silent.

Fixed all § color codes in chat messages being silently ignored.
Root cause: MutableText.formatted() is non-mutating — the returned styled text was discarded, causing every color, bold, and italic code to fall back to plain white.
All command output (/g1axoptimizer default, tweak, off, status) now renders with correct gold, green, red, yellow, and gray formatting.

Resolved startup crash with ClassMetadataNotFoundException: net.minecraft.class_1269$class_9859 when running on Minecraft 1.21.
Root cause: ActionResult was refactored from an enum to a sealed interface in 1.21.2+. Compiling against 1.21.11 caused references to ActionResult.PASS to seek non-existent inner records.
Solution: Introduced ActionResultResolver.java using reflection to dynamically retrieve SUCCESS, CONSUME, and PASS constants across all Minecraft 1.21–1.21.11 builds, resolving any compile-time bytecode dependency on the inner classes.

Fixed startup log output displaying Minecraft: unknown and reporting INCOMPATIBILITY: Mixin targets not found: MinecraftClient, EndCrystalItem, ClientConnection.
Root cause: CompatibilityChecker looked up named classes (MinecraftClient, etc.) which are obfuscated to intermediary names (class_310, etc.) in the production environment. Also, SharedConstants reflection failed due to obfuscated method names.
Solution: Updated CompatibilityChecker to query both named and intermediary names for class presence, and integrated Fabric Loader's mod container version lookup for robust, obfuscation-safe Minecraft version detection.

Resolved startup crash throwing NoSuchMethodError: 'net.fabricmc.fabric.api.networking.v1.PayloadTypeRegistry.playC2S()' when running on older Fabric API versions.
Root cause: The mod registered packets directly via the PayloadTypeRegistry class APIs which did not exist or had different signatures on older Fabric API versions.
Solution: Migrated all packet registrations to use reflection and dynamic method lookup (handling missing classes and method mismatches gracefully), allowing the mod to start up without crashes on all Fabric API versions.

Resolved startup crash throwing java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/class_2568$class_10613 (HoverEvent$ShowText) when running on Minecraft 1.21/1.21.1.
Root cause: Minecraft 1.21.2+ introduced HoverEvent.ShowText (obfuscated as class_2568$class_10613). Compiling against 1.21.11 introduced a direct bytecode reference to this class, which does not exist in Minecraft 1.21/1.21.1 client runtime environments.
Solution: Created HoverEventResolver.java using dynamic reflection to detect class availability. It dynamically instantiates HoverEvent.ShowText on 1.21.2+ environments and falls back to passing Text directly on 1.21/1.21.1 environments, removing all static compile-time classloading references.