📌 InstantShield v1.2 - Change Log

🆕 New Features

• Native Axe-Disable Handling: The plugin now applies the shield-disable effect itself (cooldown + lowering) during the instant-block window, instead of relying on vanilla to react to a cancelled event.
• Chance-Based Disable for 1.9–1.10: Restored the original vanilla behavior for these versions: 25% base chance, +5% per Efficiency level, +75% while sprinting. 1.11 and later keep the guaranteed disable on every axe hit.
• Visible Shield Lowering on Spigot/Bukkit: Added an API-based method (setItemInUseTicks) so the shield visibly lowers on plain Spigot and Bukkit too, not just Paper/Purpur/Folia, with an item-swap fallback if that doesn't work.
• Update Checker: The plugin now checks Modrinth for new releases (pre-releases and betas are ignored) and notifies ops and console when one is available. Toggle with update-checker in config.yml.

⚒️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed axe hits sometimes not disabling a freshly raised shield, which could let a shield survive 2-3 axe hits instead of one.
• Fixed the plugin silently doing nothing on plain Spigot/Bukkit when Paper-only APIs were unavailable.