PremiumChat Version Changelog

🚀 Version 1.0.0 — Initial Release

Welcome to the official initial release of PremiumChat v1.0.0! PremiumChat is a complete, production-ready Minecraft chat formatting system built targeting Paper and Purpur 1.20+ / 1.21+ on Java 21+.

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✨ Features & Highlights

💬 1. LPC-Style Chat Formatting System

• Priority-driven format template resolution (Group → World → Default).
• Built-in placeholder support (%prefix%, %player%, %suffix%, %tag%, %message%, %ping%, %world%, %group%, %rank%, %balance%, %online%, %player_count%).
• Configurable default chat message color (defaults to Gray <gray> / #AAAAAA for uncolored chat messages).
• Administrative command /premiumchat defaultcolor <colorId|hex> to set the default message color dynamically.

👑 2. Native LuckPerms & EternalTags Integration

• LuckPerms Rank & Prefix Hook: Automatically reads group rank prefixes and primary group.
• LuckPerms Trailing Color Name Hook: Trailing color codes in your LuckPerms prefix (e.g. &f, &a, &#HEX) automatically define the player name color in non-bold weight.
• EternalTags Suffix Hook: Automatically reads active tags from EternalTags via %eternaltags_tag% or Vault.

🎯 3. DonutChatHover Interactive Tooltips & Click Actions

• Player profile hover cards displaying rank, ping, world, online state, and balance.
• Message hover tooltips with sent timestamps.
• Interactive click actions (SUGGEST_COMMAND, RUN_COMMAND, OPEN_URL, COPY_TO_CLIPBOARD).
• Command injection prevention and URL sanitization.
• @Player mention highlighting, sound notifications, and tooltips.

🎨 4. Colors, Gradients & Patterns Engine

• 24 Standard Colors: red, dark-red, gold, yellow, green, dark-green, aqua, dark-aqua, blue, dark-blue, light-purple, dark-purple, white, gray, dark-gray, black, hot-pink, orange, coral, lime, sky, mint, lavender, teal.
• 15 Standard Gradients: sunset, ocean, forest, candy, twilight, arctic, volcanic, cosmic, neon, rose-gold, midnight, lava, aurora, cyberpunk, sunfire.
• 6 Standard Patterns: ✨, fire, ice, galaxy, toxic, cherry.
• Automatic ChatColor Integration: Auto-detects ChatColor API if installed. If absent, PremiumChat seamlessly falls back to its built-in internal color engine without errors.

🖥️ 5. Modern Chest GUIs & Unlock System

• Interactive menus for Main GUI, Colors, Gradients, Patterns, Presets, Preview, and Admin Overview.
• Zero-Color Initial Unlock System: Players start with 0 colors unlocked by default.
• Administrators grant colors using /premiumchat give <player> <type> <id|all>.
• In-game unlock notifications sent to target players when granted a new color.

🛡️ 6. Anti-Spam & Moderation Tools

• Cooldowns, duplicate message filter, caps filter, bad word filter, advertisement filter.
• Chat slow mode (/premiumchat slow <seconds>).
• Chat mute (/premiumchat mute).
• Chat clear (/premiumchat clear).
• Staff chat channel (/staffchat <message>).

⚡ 7. Database Persistence & Developer API

• Asynchronous SQLite (default) and MySQL/MariaDB storage drivers. Never blocks the main server thread.
• PremiumChatAPI static methods for third-party plugins.
• Paper custom events (PremiumChatMessageEvent, PremiumChatFormatEvent, PremiumChatHoverEvent, PremiumChatColorEvent, PremiumChatGradientEvent).