Caravans

Performance pass. No new features, no behavior changes you can feel — the hot paths just got leaner. Re-verified against current servers: one jar spans 1.20 → 26.x (API surface checked against Paper 26.1.2 stable with 26.2 tracked; 26.x servers run Java 25, and the plugin's Java 21 build runs there unchanged).

• Walkability probes fetch each block once — the movement core's innermost loop re-fetched the same blocks up to 3×.
• Straight-line cruise stopped re-validating its heading twice a tick (the "never smooth into a wall" guard still runs on every turning tick).
• Parked animals go network-silent — one zeroing send, then nothing until something actually shifts them. No more per-tick velocity packet per idle animal while you sort chests.
• Guardians scan smarter — Paper's filtered entity query, and after ~2s with nothing in range they relax to a staggered 1-second cadence, snapping back on first contact. Targeting and the water-float valve are untouched.
• The auto-store fullness poll stopped cloning cargo and no longer decodes the saddlebag stash — counts live beside the data now (old stashes migrate on first read).
• The storage-run boss bar only sends what changed — it was renaming itself every tick.
• Fixed: /caravandrive (op-only) called a 1.21-only look API directly and broke on 1.20.x servers; it now degrades gracefully like the rest of the movement core.

26.2 verification (2026-07-17): this exact jar re-verified against the released 26.2 — full API-surface link-check against Paper 26.2 b62 (including its Adventure 5 bump) and a clean live enable on both Paper 26.2 b62 and Purpur 26.2 b2609 on Java 25. No changes needed. On Purpur, keep mobs.llama.ridable at its default false so a rider can't steer against the caravan driver.