Early development

📦 Advanced Delivery Drones

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Version 1.0.6

Licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.

Physical drone deliveries for Minecraft Paper servers: visible flight, package inventories, sockets, animal transport, blacklists, Discord webhooks, and fully configurable GUIs.

🗺️ Roadmap

• ✅ Hierarchical permission system — fine-grained permissions for all commands
• ✅ Feature toggles — enable/disable sockets and player-to-player deliveries
• ✅ Translation files — languages/*.yml (de_DE, en_EN, es_ES, fr_FR, ru_RU, zh_CN)
• ✅ Cross-dimension delivery — drones between Overworld, Nether, and End
• ✅ Landing improvements (1.0.1) — elytra/airborne follow, pre-landing safety check, distance-based landing notification
• ✅ Performance (1.0.2) — cached landing spots, optimized ground scan, velocity-based cruise flight
• ✅ Cooldown system (1.0.3) — configurable send cooldowns for players and sockets
• ✅ Self-send blocking (1.0.4) — prevent sending to yourself and own sockets
• ✅ MySQL & Offline Players (1.0.6) — MySQL database option, offline player support, and automatic config updaters

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✨ Features

🚁 Physical drone flight

• Armor-stand drone with custom skull texture flies from sender to target in real time
• Launch animation (optional): rise, spin, particles, and sound (launch-animation.*)
• Startup phase: slow acceleration for startup-seconds at startup-speed
• Cruise: main speed via speed (blocks per tick)
• Approach: slower final segment inside approach-distance at approach-speed
• Smooth landing: eased descent into the delivery zone (not an instant snap)
• Pre-landing safety check: landing spot is recomputed once before touchdown so the drone does not hover in unsafe air
• Virtual progress continues when chunks are unloaded; the drone reappears at the correct position when the chunk loads again
• Admin coordinate sends can preload the destination chunk before arrival
• Cross-dimension flight: arc path between worlds (Overworld ↔ Nether ↔ End)

🪂 Elytra & airborne follow (player deliveries)

• Elytra follow (follow-gliding-player): while the receiver glides, the drone tracks them in the air; when they land, the target is relocated once and the drone lands there
• Airborne follow (follow-airborne-player-before-landing): before landing, if the receiver is significantly in the air (e.g. long fall, not a normal jump), the drone follows until they touch the ground, relocates once, then lands — controlled by airborne-follow-min-height (default 5 blocks above solid ground)

📦 Package & inventory

• Compose GUI (9–54 slots, multiple of 9) — close to send
• Receiver opens the package after landing (right-click drone)
• Preview incoming drones read-only (/drone preview <uuid>) with item and animal summary
• Despawn timer starts after landing (despawn-time-minutes)
• Despawn modes: DELETE (remove contents) or COLLECT (return unopened items to sender)
• Collection animation when the receiver picks up the drone (collection-animation.enabled)

🎨 Hologram & boss bar

• Hologram above landed drones: recipient name + despawn countdown (hologram.*)
• Boss bar for the receiver: distance and ETA (bossbar.*)

✨ Particles & sound

• Configurable particle trail (including DUST:R,G,B:SIZE)
• Flight sound while airborne (flight-sound)
• Receiver beacon particles after landing

📍 Locate landed drones

• /drone locate — particle trail toward your nearest landed drone in the current world (locate-particles.*, permission drone.locate)

🚫 Receive toggle, decline & cancel

• Toggle whether you accept drones (/drone toggle, GUI)
• Decline all incoming deliveries — items returned to senders (/drone decline)
• Cancel your own outgoing drones (/drone cancel)
• Clickable chat links for cancel and preview

🔢 Limits & worlds

• Max active outgoing drones per sender (max-active-per-sender)
• Blocked worlds list (blocked-worlds)
• Send cooldown (send-cooldown-seconds-player, send-cooldown-seconds-socket) — configurable cooldown in seconds between drone sends
• Self-send blocking (allow-send-to-self-player, allow-send-to-self-socket) — prevent sending drones to yourself and your own sockets

⚙️ Feature toggles

• players-enabled — allow/disable player-to-player deliveries (GUI + commands)
• sockets-enabled — allow/disable socket system

⛔ Player blacklist

• Block specific players from sending direct deliveries to you
• Commands and GUI (/drone blacklist …)

🏗 Delivery sockets

• Place personal delivery points (/drone socket place <name>)
• Send to any socket by global name (/drone socket send <name>)
• Trust list: trusted players may pick up socket deliveries
• Per-socket blacklist for blocked senders
• Rename, relocate, remove; management GUI (/drone socket manage)
• Exact landing on socket coordinates
• Container integration: auto-unload into chests/hoppers near the socket (container-integration.search-radius, blacklist skips permanently)
• Pending returns if the socket owner is unreachable (socket-pending-returns.yml)

🐾 Animal transport

• Optional leashed-animal delivery (carry-leashed-animals)
• Send-mode GUI: animals only vs items
• Animals removed on send, respawned at delivery; invulnerable in transit
• Limits via max-leashed-animals-per-drone

🔔 Discord webhooks

• Optional notifications: sent, delivered, declined/cancelled, expired
• Embeds with items/animals (discord.* in config.yml)

🖥 GUIs (gui.yml)

• Main menu: send, preview, socket manage, toggle, decline, blacklist
• Player & socket target selection
• Socket edit: rename (sign UI), relocate, trust, blacklist, delete
• Blacklist add/remove player pickers
• Send-mode inventory (animals vs items)
• Live reload via /drone reload (no restart)

💾 Persistence & safety

• MySQL Database support for active drones (configurable, defaults to YAML)
• Automatic config updater effortlessly migrates configurations, GUIs, and language files
• Offline player support in GUI for blacklists and trust
• players.yml — receive toggle
• blacklists.yml — player blacklists
• sockets.yml — sockets, trust, socket blacklists
• socket-pending-returns.yml — stranded socket deliveries
• drones.yml — active in-flight/landed drones (survives restarts where applicable)
• Server restart: returns items/animals to senders, cleans orphaned entities
• Receiver offline / dimension change: outgoing drone cancelled, items returned
• Flying drone armor stand cannot be manipulated

⚡ Performance

• PerformanceOptimizer: throttling when many drones are active
• Distance-culled particles and rate-limited boss bar / hologram updates
• Chunk preload and flight path math cached per drone
• Landing spot cache (1.0.2): computeLandingFrom() runs once per target, not every tick during smooth landing
• Faster ground scan: highest-block shortcut, center fast-path, coarse-to-fine radius search, skip unloaded chunks
• Velocity movement (1.0.2): cruise flight uses setVelocity() (armor stand ticks only while moving); teleport only for snap/dimension/land

🌐 Languages

• Messages in plugins/AdvancedDeliveryDrones/languages/ (not in config.yml)
• Select locale via language: in config.yml (de_DE, en_EN, es_ES, fr_FR, ru_RU, zh_CN)
• MiniMessage formatting; reload with /drone reload
• Landing notification shows distance to the drone in metres (<distance>), not delivery radius

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🎮 Commands

Root command: /drone (players only — opens the main GUI when run without arguments).

📤 Sending & receiving

Command	Description	Permission
/drone send <player>	Open compose flow and send to a player	drone.send.players
/drone cancel	Cancel all your outgoing drones	drone.cancel
/drone preview <uuid>	Preview an incoming drone (read-only)	drone.preview
/drone toggle	Enable/disable receiving drones	drone.toggle
/drone decline	Decline all incoming drones	drone.decline
/drone locate	Particle trail to nearest landed drone (this world)	drone.locate

⛔ Player blacklist

Command	Description	Permission
/drone blacklist	Open blacklist GUI	drone.blacklist
/drone blacklist player add [player]	Block a player (GUI if name omitted)	drone.blacklist.player.add
/drone blacklist player remove [player]	Unblock a player	drone.blacklist.player.remove
/drone blacklist player list	List blocked players	drone.blacklist.player.list

🏗 Sockets

Command	Description	Permission
/drone socket place <name>	Place a socket at your location	drone.socket.place
/drone socket remove <name>	Remove your socket	drone.socket.remove
/drone socket list	List your sockets	drone.socket.list
/drone socket send <name>	Send to a socket (global name)	drone.socket.send
/drone socket manage	Socket management GUI	drone.socket.manage
/drone socket rename <old> <new>	Rename a socket	drone.socket.rename
/drone socket trust <socket> <player>	Allow pickup on your socket	drone.socket.trust
/drone socket untrust <socket> <player>	Revoke trust	drone.socket.untrust
/drone socket blacklist add <socket> [player]	Block sender for a socket	drone.socket.blacklist
/drone socket blacklist remove <socket> [player]	Unblock sender	drone.socket.blacklist
/drone socket blacklist list <socket>	List socket blacklist	drone.socket.blacklist

🛠 Admin

Command	Description	Permission
/drone admin send <x> <y> <z> [world]	Send to coordinates (admin as receiver)	drone.admin.send
/drone list	List active drones + teleport links	drone.admin.list
/drone reload	Reload config.yml, gui.yml, and language files	drone.admin.reload

Parent permissions (drone.send, drone.use, drone.socket, drone.admin, drone.blacklist) grant their children — see plugin.yml.

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🔐 Permissions

Permission	Description	Default
drone.send	Send and cancel drones (parent)	true
drone.send.players	Send to players	true
drone.cancel	Cancel outgoing drones	true
drone.use	Preview, toggle, decline, blacklist (parent)	true
drone.preview	Preview incoming drones	true
drone.toggle	Toggle receiving drones	true
drone.decline	Decline incoming drones	true
drone.locate	Locate landed drones	true
drone.blacklist	Blacklist management (parent)	true
drone.blacklist.player.*	Add / remove / list player blacklist	true
drone.socket	All socket commands (parent)	true
drone.socket.*	Individual socket subcommands	true
drone.admin	Admin commands (parent)	OP
drone.admin.send	Admin coordinate send	OP
drone.admin.list	List active drones	OP
drone.admin.reload	Reload configs	OP