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📜 CustomDeathMessages - Changelog v0.0.2

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🎉 Minor Update with Major Improvements!

This version refines the foundation of v0.0.1, adding new community-requested features and improving stability and developer experience.

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✅ New Features

• Killer Support in /cdm test!
  The test command now accepts an optional third argument: the killer's name.
  Example: /cdm test ENTITY_ATTACK Notch
  This allows you to accurately test placeholders like {killer}, {killer_displayname}, and {distance}.

• New Placeholder: {killer_displayname}
  Displays the killer’s display name, respecting nicknames, prefixes, and colors set by other plugins (like EssentialsX or LuckPerms).

• New Placeholder: {distance}
  Shows the distance in blocks between the victim and the killer, formatted to one decimal place (e.g., "5.2").

• Random Message Cooldown System
  The plugin now remembers the last random message shown to a player and will avoid showing it again until a different message has been displayed. This prevents annoying repetitions.

• Improved Killer Detection
  The plugin can now correctly detect the killer’s name even if it’s an entity (like a Creeper or Zombie) or has a custom name. Entity names are formatted with initial capital letters (e.g., "Zombie Pigman").

• Centralized System Messages
  All console messages, warnings, and command responses are now loaded from messages.yml under the system-messages section. This allows administrators to fully translate the plugin without modifying the code.

• PlaceholderAPI Compatibility in /cdm test
  PlaceholderAPI placeholders are now also expanded when using the test command, providing a more accurate preview.

• Registered TabCompleter
  The /cdm command now has a functional TabCompleter that suggests "test", damage causes, and names of online players, greatly improving usability.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error in MessagesManager.java where the character encoding when loading the default file was not specified, which could cause issues with special characters. It now uses StandardCharsets.UTF_8.

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Thank you for using CustomDeathMessages! This update makes the plugin more powerful, flexible, and easier to use than ever before.