NeoTab

NeoTab 1.3.0-Beta.3 — Compatibility & Bugfix Cleanup

This beta focuses on cleanup, compatibility safety, and fixing several issues found during the 1.3.0 Beta testing cycle.

NeoTab now has stronger protection for the documented 1.20.6+ support range and includes fixes for ActionBar Extras, scoreboard handling, German config text, and command documentation.

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✅ Fixed

ActionBar Extras now fully respect the global toggle

When extras.actionbar.enabled: false is set, ActionBar Extra modules no longer keep their internal tasks running.

Previously, ActionBarService rejected ActionBar submissions correctly, but modules like Timer, Clock, Random Messages, Biome Popup, Nearest Player, and Achievements could still start scheduled tasks in the background.

This is now handled more safely:

• ActionBar Extras do not start when the global ActionBar setting is disabled.
• Restarting ActionBar Extras also respects the global toggle.
• Existing module tasks are stopped cleanly when disabled.

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Safer scoreboard handling with other plugins

NeoTab now avoids blindly resetting players back to the main scoreboard.

Before this update, disabling or clearing NeoTab’s scoreboard could overwrite another plugin’s scoreboard state. NeoTab now tracks its own scoreboard usage more carefully and only restores/clears when the player is still using a NeoTab-owned board.

This improves compatibility with other scoreboard plugins.

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German message pack encoding fixed

Broken German text encoding has been corrected.

Examples fixed:

• Spaß → Spaß
• Glück → Glück
• zurück → zurück

The German message pack is still inactive by default, but it should no longer contain broken Mojibake text when copied or enabled manually.

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Command usage/docs synced

The plugin usage/help documentation has been updated to better match the current 1.3.0 Beta command set.

Newer Extras commands are now included in the docs/plugin usage text, including:

• randommessages
• welcome
• biomepopup
• nearestplayer
• achievements

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🛡️ Compatibility

Compile target changed to Paper API 1.20.6

NeoTab now compiles against the lowest documented supported Paper API version:

Paper API 1.20.6-R0.1-SNAPSHOT

This helps prevent accidental usage of newer Paper-only APIs while NeoTab still claims support for 1.20.6+.

Build details:

• Paper API compile target: 1.20.6-R0.1-SNAPSHOT
• Java bytecode target: Java 21
• Plugin API version: 1.20

Tested build command:

./gradlew clean build

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⚠️ Known Beta Notes

This is still a beta release. Please keep a backup of your plugins/NeoTab/config.yml before updating.

The following areas are known and may receive further cleanup in later beta builds:

• Very long scoreboard lines can still be limited by Minecraft scoreboard/team text behavior.
• The Nearest Player module can become expensive on large servers if enabled with many players.
• The Achievements module still benefits from future caching improvements.
• The update checker currently uses lightweight parsing and may be hardened later.

These are not expected to affect most small or medium test servers with default settings.

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🔗 Links

GitHub: https://github.com/DasEtwa/NeoTab

Bug Reports / Issues: https://github.com/DasEtwa/NeoTab/issues

Modrinth: /plugins/neotab