LifeWars

This update brings a major overhaul to the LifeWars crafting system, improved heart item handling, a new in-game recipe editor, better revive mechanics, and a number of core refactors and quality-of-life improvements.

Major Features

• Custom Recipe Editor: Added an in-game editor for customizing the Heart and Revive Book crafting recipes.
• Configurable Recipes: Crafting recipes can now be configured and saved directly through the plugin configuration.
• Custom Heart Items: Added support for custom heart ingredients and improved heart item identification.
• Item Model Support: Added support for custom item models and CustomModelData strings, allowing resource packs to customize heart items.
• Admin Spawn Item: Added a new admin command for spawning LifeWars items.
• Improved Revives: Reviving players now includes new particle and sound effects for a more polished experience.

Core Improvements

• Banned Players: Reworked banned-player storage to use a dedicated BannedPlayers.yml file.
• Ban System: Added improved ban, unban, and ban-and-kick handling.
• Heart System: Refactored heart creation, giving, dropping, equipping, and health handling.
• Recipe System: Reworked recipe loading, saving, validation, and registration.
• Config System: Improved configuration loading and automatically adds new default settings.

Fixes & Quality of Life

• Fixed hearts being consumed when interacting with certain blocks.
• Added inventory capacity checks before withdrawing hearts.
• Improved handling of offline players during elimination.
• Fixed legacy heart recipe tokens.
• Improved material and recipe token handling.
• Added better validation for revive books.
• Improved error handling for invalid item model keys.
• Cleaned up unused code, imports, and outdated implementations.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1-21-1.21.11 Support
• Added support for the modern CustomModelDataComponent API on Minecraft 1.21.4+.
• Added fallback support for older APIs using legacy CustomModelData.
• Improved compatibility with resource packs using custom heart models.

LifeWars

This update significantly improves the foundation of LifeWars while making recipes, items, configuration, and administrative tools much easier to manage.