🎮 NDCore v3.0.0

🎯 Release Overview

Version 3.0.0 introduces an enhanced logging system (merged from the Lumina project), improves plugin instance
retrieval, and provides better null safety with JetBrains annotations.

🚀 Key Changes

• Enhanced Logging System (Merged from Lumina):

  • Integrated the Lumina logging project directly into NDCore for streamlined dependency management.
  • Introduced NDLogger with multiple logging levels (INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL).
  • Implemented LoggingStrategy interface for customizable logging behavior.
  • Added DefaultLoggingStrategy with color-coded console output and organized log files.
  • Deprecated standard getLogger() method in favor of the new logger() method.

• Improved Plugin Instance Retrieval:

  • Added getNDPlugin(Class<T> clazz) method for more convenient NDPlugin instance retrieval.
  • Enhanced type safety with proper casting to NDPlugin.

• Null Safety Enhancements:

  • Added JetBrains annotations (@NotNull) throughout the codebase.
  • Improved null checking with Objects.requireNonNull() in constructors.
  • Enhanced parameter validation for better error handling.

📦 Installation

1. Download NDCore-3.0.0.jar
2. Place the JAR file in your server's plugins folder
3. Restart your server
4. The plugin will load automatically as a dependency

💻 For Developers

For comprehensive documentation on how to use NDCore, please refer to the Introduction in the
usage directory.

To use NDCore as a dependency, add the following to your plugin.yml:

depend: [NDCore]

and import it via maven central:

Gradle

implementation 'dev.nelmin.minecraft:core-paper:3.0.0'

Gradle (Kotlin)

implementation("dev.nelmin.minecraft:core-paper:3.0.0")

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>dev.nelmin.minecraft</groupId>
  <artifactId>core-paper</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>

📌 System Requirements

• Java 21 or higher
• Compatible with PaperMC 1.21.4 or higher