DGspawners 1.0.4

The biggest update since launch: every menu is now fully animated, two community-requested features are in, and a round of fixes and visual polish on top. Thanks to SpeezyRoyal for the feature ideas and to ponkstars for the report behind the placement fix!

New: Animated GUIs

Every menu now plays the signature DG animation set:

• Reveal on open: the border zips shut from both ends of the frame, then the content pops in item by item with a rising pitch
• Ambient loop: a color comet runs along the border in each menu's identity color while the header name shimmers through a moving gradient
• Re-opening the same menu (pagination, upgrade refreshes) skips the reveal, so navigation stays instant
• Fully configurable under animations: in the config (toggle the reveal, the sounds, the speeds, or turn it all off)

New: Permanent Auto-Collect (fully virtual mode)

Set auto-collect.force-enabled: true and auto-collect is permanently ON for every spawner: mobs never spawn physically, all loot and XP go straight to virtual storage, players skip the unlock cost, and the toggle shows "Always On". Perfect for lag-free servers. Default is false, so nothing changes unless you opt in. (requested by SpeezyRoyal)

New: Silk Touch Keeps the Mob Type

Set settings.silk-keep-type: true and mining a vanilla spawner with Silk Touch gives a ready-to-use spawner of that exact mob type instead of an empty one. Vanilla spawners with no type set still drop as empty, and the tiered chance permissions work the same. Default is false. (requested by SpeezyRoyal)

Polished

• Progress bars everywhere now show a live percentage next to the bar
• Chat got the full premium treatment: per-letter gradient prefix and gradient headers on help, list, info, and leaderboard
• Finer typography across every menu: sharper action lines, softer separators, bolder spawner names in key messages

Fixed

• Placement vs protection plugins: spawner registration now happens only after every protection plugin (BentoBox, WorldGuard, GriefPrevention...) has had its say, regardless of listener order. This removes a rare "ghost spawner" case where a spawner could keep running even though the block placement was blocked.
• Spawners whose block no longer exists are skipped entirely by the spawn ticker.

Upgrade Notes

• Drop-in update. Both new gameplay options are OFF by default.
• To get the refreshed chat and menu text styling, delete (or back up) your old messages.yml and gui.yml so the new ones can generate. If you've customized them, keep your files - everything still works.

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