BountyLite

Added

• Colored startup banner showing version, author, storage backend and active bounty count.
• Colored Vault and PlaceholderAPI hook status, including failure details and a retry when no economy provider is registered yet.
• Minimum and maximum bet limits, plus confirmation for large bets.
• Per-player bet cooldown.
• Bet expiry with optional refunds.
• Victim notifications when a bounty is placed on them (toggleable).
• Anti-abuse option that blocks claims when the killer and victim share an IP.
• On-screen title and sound when a bounty is claimed (toggleable).
• Bounty menu search with a dialog input, clear-search button and filtered title.
• /bounty search <query> command that opens the menu already filtered.
• bounty top entries are clickable, and previous/next page links work from chat.
• Tab completion suggests online player names only.
• Optional PlaceholderAPI expansion for top bounties, top bettors, player bounties and the active total.

Changed

• Version now lives in paper-plugin.yml; removed the unused Gradle resource expansion.
• Removed the leftover BountyStorage interface and an unused ApiStatus import.
• Modrinth releases now declare VaultUnlocked as the required Vault-compatible dependency and PlaceholderAPI as optional. VaultUnlocked is a drop-in fork that still registers as Vault, so original Vault remains supported.
• Internal cleanup: shared SQL write helper, coalesced top-bettor refreshes, batched expiry, cached totals/message prefix, bounded bet-cooldown cache, and merged small source files.

Fixed

• The bet-expiry task is now cancelled before storage shuts down.
• Database retries only repeat connection failures, so constraint or SQL errors cannot be written twice.
• Clicking a GUI slot with no action no longer schedules a task.

Performance

• Bounty changes use one background write path, and burst changes trigger a single top-bettor refresh instead of one per change.
• Expiry is processed as one batch, with one cache invalidation and one refresh.
• The GUI uses an array-backed slot map and reuses its filler component, reducing short-lived allocations.