Added

• EzCountdown integration (optional soft-dependency):
  • RTP countdown display can now be delegated to EzCountdown for richer, configurable display channels.
  • Configurable display types per RTP world: ACTION_BAR, BOSS_BAR, TITLE, CHAT, SCOREBOARD, DIALOG.
  • Configurable MiniMessage format string with {formatted} placeholder for remaining time.
  • Each teleporting player receives an ephemeral, per-player countdown with permission-scoped visibility.
  • Falls back to the built-in bossbar/chat countdown automatically when EzCountdown is absent or ezcountdown.enabled: false.
  • New countdown.ezcountdown.* config section in rtp.yml (disabled by default).
• EzCountdown added as optional soft-dependency in plugin.yml.
• Factions RTP (TeamsAPI):
  • Added /rtp faction to open a claim-selection GUI from all TeamsAPI claims available to the player's team.
  • Added TeamsAPI subcommand integration for /f rtp via the TeamsAPI subcommand API (when provided by the installed TeamsAPI version).
  • Claim selection now sets the selected claim chunk as RTP center and then applies normal per-world RTP behavior/settings.
• New faction-gui.yml file for full claim-GUI configuration.
• Heatmap claim overlays (admin insight):
  • Added claim border overlay mode for /rtp heatmap and /rtp heatmap save via claims-overlay flag.
  • Added rtp.yml options under heatmap.claims-overlay.*:
    • enabled
    • style (border)
    • color
    • line-width
• Claim-constrained fake RTP simulation:
  • Added /rtp fake <amount> claims [world] to generate simulated points on faction claims owned by the executor’s team.

Changed

• TeamsAPI dependency bumped from 1.4.1 to 1.8.0.
• TeamsAPI /f rtp subcommand integration rewritten: replaced the reflection-based Proxy approach with a proper AbstractTeamsSubcommand subclass (requires TeamsAPI ≥ 1.8.0).
• TeamsAPI subcommand registration now uses an explicit isPluginEnabled("TeamsAPI") guard instead of relying on NoClassDefFoundError suppression.
• Faction claim GUI icons now attempt to use player skulls when claimant/owner identity is available, with configurable fallback material when unavailable.
• Added configurable title, size, claim item format/lore, skull toggle, and navigation slot/name settings for faction GUI pages.
• Update checker refactored to use mc-plugin-update-notifier with Modrinth as primary source and GitHub Releases as fallback source.

Fixed

• Heatmap enablement now resolves correctly for inherited/fallback world settings (heatmap.enabled) and no longer reads as disabled unexpectedly in world/GUI override paths.
• /rtp heatmap no longer hard-requires biome cache for non-biome heatmaps. Biome cache is only required for biome-filtered heatmap requests.
• Spigot startup compatibility fixed in update checking (JavaPlugin#getDescription().getVersion() used instead of Paper-only metadata calls).
• Message loading now supports both top-level keys and nested messages.* language-file layouts.
• Language file handling is now non-destructive: startup repair only targets clearly corrupted message files, with automatic backfill of missing message keys while preserving existing translations/customizations.

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Added

• PvP tag integration: EzRTP now detects when a player enters combat and cancels their pending teleport or active countdown. Three plugins are supported out of the box:
  • CombatLogX — auto-detected at startup; soft dependency.
  • PvPManager — auto-detected at startup; soft dependency.
  • Simple Combat Log (NikeyV1/CombatLog) — auto-detected at startup; soft dependency.
  • All three are added to softdepend in plugin.yml so they load before EzRTP when present. No configuration change is required on servers that do not use any of them.
  • New pvp-tag-integration section in rtp.yml:
    • cancel-countdown-on-pvp-tag (default true): cancel an active countdown the moment the player is tagged.
    • cancel-queued-on-pvp-tag (default true): skip a queued teleport if the player is already in combat when their slot is dispatched.
  • New message keys countdown-pvp-cancel and queue-pvp-tag-cancel in messages/*.yml for the cancellation notifications.
  • Modrinth release metadata now declares pvpmanager and simple-combatlog as optional dependencies.

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Fixed

• Folia teleport crash (UnsupportedOperationException: Must use teleportAsync while in region threading): BukkitPlatformScheduler now overrides teleportAsync and, when running on Folia (regionizedRuntime capability), calls player.teleportAsync(Location) via reflection instead of the forbidden synchronous player.teleport(). The Bukkit module was the only scheduler that still used the synchronous fallback from the interface default; PaperPlatformScheduler already called teleportAsync directly.

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Fixed

• BukkitPlatformScheduler now handles Folia servers correctly. Previously, running EzRTP on Folia without the Paper runtime module caused an UnsupportedOperationException during plugin enable because the Bukkit CraftScheduler rejects all synchronous task scheduling on Folia. The scheduler now detects regionizedRuntime capabilities and routes all scheduling calls through Folia's GlobalRegionScheduler / RegionScheduler via reflection, matching the behaviour already present in PaperPlatformScheduler.

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Fixed

• PerformanceSnapshot#fmt now passes Locale.US to String#format, ensuring decimal separators are always locale-independent (dots, not commas).

Changed

• Dependency scope for ezrtp-common in the ezrtp-paper and ezrtp-purpur modules changed to provided; the common module is bundled by the main plugin JAR and must not be re-included by platform modules.

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