CoinForge — Initial Release

A complete multi-currency economy system for Minecraft servers, with Vault integration, custom currencies, GUI management, taxation, interest, and a public developer API.

✨ Added

💰 Multi-Currency Economy

• Added support for one built-in Vault currency.
• Added support for unlimited custom currencies.
• Custom currencies can be fully configured through config.yml.
• Each currency supports its own name, symbol, decimal precision, starting balance, and GUI icon.

🔗 Vault Integration

• Added CoinForgeEconomy as a Vault economy provider.
• CoinForge can override existing economy plugins such as EssentialsX or CMI using ServicePriority.
• Added the ability to completely disable the Vault currency.
• Added internal-only currency mode without registering with Vault.
• Added configurable vault-currency.enabled and vault-currency.register-with-vault options.

🔌 Developer API

• Added public CoinForgeAPI.
• API package: dev.coinforge.plugin.api.CoinForgeAPI
• Other plugins can read and modify player balances.
• Designed for integrations with plugins such as ShopForge.

🖥️ Economy GUI

• Added /coins gui wallet interface.
• Added configurable icons for every currency.
• Added /coins top <currency> leaderboard GUI.
• Added player-head based leaderboard entries.
• Added chat-based leaderboard fallback for console usage.

📋 Commands

Added the complete /coins command system:

• /coins
• /coins gui
• /coins <currency>
• /coins pay
• /coins top
• /coins exchange
• /coins admin give
• /coins admin take
• /coins admin set
• /coins admin reset
• /coins reload

💸 Tax System

• Added configurable taxes for player payments.
• Added configurable taxes for currency exchanges.
• Taxes act as a true economy sink.
• Added coinforge.tax.bypass permission.

📈 Interest System

• Added scheduled interest payouts.
• Interest can be configured independently for each currency.
• Added configurable payout intervals.
• Added configurable interest rates and minimum balances.
• Added support for online-only interest payouts.

⏱️ Pay Cooldown

• Added configurable cooldown between player payments.
• Helps prevent spam and excessive transaction activity.

📝 Transaction Logging

• Added per-transaction audit logging.
• Transactions are stored in transactions.log.
• Interest payouts are also recorded.

💾 Persistent Data Storage

• Added separate data files for each currency.
• Currency data is stored inside the plugin's data/ directory.
• Added format-version metadata to support future data migrations.

🔮 PlaceholderAPI

Added PlaceholderAPI expansion:

• %coinforge_balance_<currency>%
• %coinforge_formatted_<currency>%

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🛠️ Compatibility

• Compiled against Spigot API 1.21.11
• Uses Java 8 bytecode
• No Paper-exclusive APIs
• Designed for broad compatibility across supported Spigot and Paper versions

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📌 Notes

CoinForge is designed to remain platform-independent while providing a complete economy foundation for servers that need anything from a simple Vault replacement to a fully customizable multi-currency economy.