🛠️ New in Version 1.0.6 (The Database & Admin Update)

Version 1.0.6 is a major milestone focusing on automation, proper data persistence, and seamless GUI interactions for offline players.

⚙️ Automated Configuration Updates

• Smart Config Updater: Integrated the tchristofferson ConfigUpdater. Your configuration files, GUIs, and language files will now automatically update to include new keys without wiping or resetting your old settings.
• Version Checker Fix: Fixed the update-notification logic so it only triggers when a legitimately newer version is available.
• Localization Polish: Fixed a broken parameter for the player-never-played message and correctly populated it across all 6 supported languages.

👥 Offline Player Support (Trust & Blacklists)

• Full Offline Support: Trust lists and Blacklists now fully support offline players.
• Custom Player Heads: Sockets and Player Blacklist GUIs will now correctly render the custom texture heads of offline players.
• GUI & Tab Click Fixes: Resolved an issue with NamespacedKey handling when clicking offline players inside menus.
• Tab-Completion: Offline players now appear in command autocompletion. Trying to target a non-existent player will now correctly yield the player-never-played error.

💾 Enterprise Database & MySQL Integration

• Full MySQL Support: You can now choose between local storage or a centralized MySQL database to save and sync active drones across networks!
• Database Architecture Refactor: The DatabaseManager has been completely rewritten to use separate, optimized tables. Table prefixes (like drone_) have been reverted to their clean, original names.
• Drone Deletion Fix: Fixed a critical bug where drones destroyed in-game were not being dropped/purged from the database.
• Data Migration Command: Added a powerful data conversion system (/drone convert ...) with full tab-completion to help you migrate data smoothly.

🐛 Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Socket Management GUI: Fixed a bug where the /drone socket manage command did absolutely nothing. It now properly opens the management GUI as intended.

🔔 New in Version 1.0.5 (Update Notifications)

This update ensures you never miss critical performance tweaks or feature additions by introducing an automated update tracker.

🌐 Version Checker System

• Automatic Update Alerts: The plugin now checks the official repository upon server startup to see if a newer version of DeliveryDrones is available.
• Console & Admin Notifications: If your server is running an outdated version, a clear warning message will be printed to the console (and sent to authorized admins upon joining) with a link to the latest release.
• Non-Blocking Operations: The version check runs entirely asynchronously, meaning it will never delay your server startup or impact TPS.

🛡️ New in Version 1.0.4 (Control & Anti-Abuse Update)

This update introduces essential server-management features: Cooldowns to prevent spam and Self-Send Restrictions to control drone behavior.

⏱️ Cooldown System

You can now limit how frequently players can send drones.

• Player Cooldown (send-cooldown-seconds-player): Set a waiting time (in seconds) between player-to-player drone shipments.
• Socket Cooldown (send-cooldown-seconds-socket): Set a waiting time (in seconds) between sending drones to Sockets.
• Smart UI: Cooldowns are tracked individually per player/socket, and a countdown message shows exactly how much time is left.

🚫 Self-Send Restrictions

Prevent players from abusing the system as a local transport loophole.

• allow-send-to-self-player (Default: false): Blocks players from sending drones to themselves.
• allow-send-to-self-socket (Default: false): Blocks players from sending drones to sockets they own.

🛰️ New in Version 1.0.3 (Automation Update)

Version 1.0.3 enhances the "Socket" and container integration system, giving players more flexibility in how they design their automated delivery hubs.

📦 Expanded Container Integration

• Configurable Search Radius: Drones are no longer strictly limited to the block directly beneath them. They can now scan for valid containers (Chests, Hoppers, etc.) within a defined horizontal and vertical radius.
• Flexible Hub Design: This allows for more creative landing pad designs where the storage doesn't have to be centered perfectly under the drone's landing point.

⚡ New in Version 1.0.2 (Performance Overhaul)

This update introduces a massive refactor of the drone's movement and scanning logic. By moving away from expensive per-tick operations and constant teleportation, DeliveryDrones 1.0.2 offers a significantly lighter footprint for high-population servers.

🚄 Optimized Flight Engine

• Velocity-Based Movement: Drones now utilize setVelocity() for cruise flight. This allows the server to handle the physics naturally, ensuring Armor Stand entities only "tick" while in motion.
• Smart Snap Logic: Teleportation is now strictly reserved for dimension shifts, final landing snaps, or emergency relocation, eliminating "jitter" and reducing packet overhead.

🎯 Intelligent Landing & Scanning

• Landing Spot Cache: The computeLandingFrom() function now runs once per target change. Drones no longer re-calculate their landing spot every single tick during the descent.
• High-Speed Ground Scanning:
• Highest-Block Shortcut: Uses internal world heightmaps to find the ground instantly.
• Coarse-to-Fine Search: Scans the landing area in broad steps before narrowing down, saving hundreds of iterations.
• Safety Failsafes: Automatically skips scanning in unloaded chunks to prevent accidental "chunk-loading lag."

📊 Performance Impact

Logic	Old Method (1.0.1)	New Method (1.0.2)	Benefit
Movement	Per-tick Teleport	Physics-based Velocity	Lower CPU & smoother visuals
Pathfinding	Every Tick	Cached on target change	Massive reduction in main-thread load
Scanning	Dense Radius Scan	Coarse-to-Fine + Heightmap	Near-instant landing calculations