XenoFactions

Xenofactions 2.1 Stable Release

The largest Xenofactions update to date, featuring a complete overhaul of warfare, diplomacy, territory management, prestige, administration, and server customization.

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Warfare & Diplomacy Overhaul

New War System

• Wars are now faction-versus-faction.
• War declarations require target factions to meet online activity requirements.
• Allied factions can participate in allied wars.
• Allies can no longer declare war on each other.
• Alliance breaks now trigger war cooldowns.
• Added configurable war declaration requirements and restrictions.

Diplomacy

• Added Surrender, Ceasefire, and Peace agreements.
• Added configurable war cooldown periods.
• Added city transfer peace terms.
• Cities can now be ceded during surrender and peace negotiations.

Raid System Rework

• Added online-based raid protection.
• Added war-age requirements before raids can begin.
• Added extensive administrative controls for war and raid restrictions.
• Legacy behavior can be restored through configuration.

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Prestige & Nation Economy Overhaul

New Prestige Economy

• Completely rebalanced prestige generation and upkeep.
• Added land upkeep costs.
• Rebalanced city, building, and territorial expansion costs.
• Added scaling city settlement costs.
• Added prestige-based war declaration costs.
• Medical Tents now consume prestige.
• Warp Tents now have significantly increased upkeep.

National Stability System

• Wars now consume prestige over time.

• Long wars become progressively more expensive.

• Added Prestige Bankruptcy stages:

  • Financial Crisis
  • National Collapse
  • Fallen Nation

• Added escalating penalties for nations that fail to maintain prestige.

War Reparations

• Surrendering factions now transfer 50% of their prestige generation to the victor for 84 hours.

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City & Territory Overhaul

City Centers

• Replaced traditional Claim Flags with City Centers.
• Cities must now be founded and named.
• Territory expansion is now tied to city claim radius.
• Added city ownership tracking.
• Added city placement validation and territory restrictions.
• Added non-overlapping city borders.
• Added minimum spacing requirements between cities.

City Progression

• Added five city development levels:

  • Settlement
  • Town
  • City
  • Metropolis
  • Capital

• Added city upgrade system.

• Added claim radius scaling based on city level.

• Maximum city radius is now 6 chunks.

City Management

• Added city rename popup during founding.
• Added city ownership transfers.
• Added duplicate city name protection.
• Added city upgrade confirmations and cost previews.
• Added prestige cost previews for city creation.
• Improved city conquest behavior and territory transfers.

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Dynmap Integration

Optional Dynmap Support

• Added automatic Dynmap detection with no hard dependency.
• Added live faction territory overlays.
• Added city border rendering.
• Added city center markers.
• Added faction-colored territory visualization.

Dynmap Information Tooltips

• City Name
• Owning Faction
• City Level
• Claim Count
• Chunk Coordinates

Live Updates

Dynmap overlays automatically update when:

• Cities are created
• Cities are renamed
• Cities are transferred
• Cities are removed
• Territory changes occur
• Faction names change
• Faction colors change

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Custom Faction Flags

Custom Flag Images

• Added support for custom faction flags using image URLs.
• Imported flags are automatically downloaded, validated, resized, sanitized, and cached.
• Added client-side texture synchronization and caching.
• Added fallback handling for missing or invalid images.
• Custom flags now display throughout Xenofactions interfaces.

Security

• Restricted imports to approved image hosts.
• Added image size, dimension, and format validation.
• Added metadata stripping and image sanitization.
• Added protection against invalid URLs and unsafe redirects.
• Downloads are processed asynchronously to avoid server lag.

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Team Deathmatch Expansion

New TDM Features

• Map definitions
• Map voting
• Per-map kit definitions
• Dedicated TDM menu
• Friendly-fire protection

TDM Command Overhaul

• Consolidated TDM under the /tdm command tree.
• Added /tdm menu and /tdm openmenu.
• Reorganized help pages and command structure.
• Improved validation and usage feedback.
• Unified team switching behavior.
• Removed legacy TDM commands.

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Protection Systems

New Player Protection

• Added configurable new-player protection.
• 4-hour PvP grace period.
• 24-hour keep-inventory protection.
• Persistent UUID-based storage.
• Protection survives restarts and offline periods.

Build Grace

• Added one-time 48-hour build grace.
• Protected factions cannot attack or be attacked.
• Protected factions cannot enter wilderness or foreign territory.
• Added administrative controls for resetting or ending grace periods.
• Reworked border handling and movement enforcement.

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Configuration Overhaul

New Configuration System

• Added extensive configuration options covering:

  • Warfare
  • Raiding
  • Diplomacy
  • Cities
  • Prestige
  • Protection Systems
  • Gameplay Balancing

Configuration Improvements

• Reorganized hfr.cfg into structured categories.
• Added documentation and comments throughout the configuration.
• Improved readability and maintainability.
• Added automatic migration support for legacy entries.
• Removed deprecated and duplicate config generation.

Additional Configuration

• Added configurable minimum and maximum Y-level options for stone drops.

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Commands & Quality of Life

• Reworked /c and /xc command handling.
• Improved command validation and error reporting.
• Added player, faction, and command tab completion.
• Improved support for faction names containing spaces.
• Expanded and reorganized help menus.
• Added numerous city, territory, conquest, and ownership validation checks.

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Stability & Bug Fixes

• Fixed territory transfer issues during faction merges.
• Fixed conquered cities not transferring territory correctly.
• Fixed claims persisting after City Center removal.
• Fixed invalid City Centers causing errors.
• Fixed city rename behavior.
• Fixed MCHeli-related crashes when the mod is absent.
• Improved movement handling around protected borders.
• Reduced chat spam and false-positive border enforcement.
• Numerous warfare, diplomacy, city, GUI, and territory management fixes.

Xenofactions 2.1 marks the completion of the major warfare, diplomacy, city, and prestige systems and serves as the project's long-term stable release. We hope you all enjoy it!