Compact binary storage for DirtyMarker & AwaitingProtectionModeConfig; fix inventory slot order

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Sponge Configurate serialises ByteArray as a YAML sequence of integers (one entry per byte), making a single player inventory balloon to thousands of lines. Additionally, filterNotNull() on the inventory array before serialisation stripped empty slots, restoring items to wrong positions after a server restart.

Storage format

DirtyMarker and AwaitingProtectionModeConfig now each hold a single data: String — a Base64-encoded binary blob — instead of multiple typed YAML fields.

Before:

awaitingProtectionModes:
  - playerUuidString: "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"
    startLocationString: "world,100.5,64.0,200.5,0.0"
    inventoryBytes:
      - 1
      - 0
      - 0
      - 36
      # ... hundreds more integers
dirtyMarkers:
  - locationString: "world,100,64,200,0.0"
    blockDataString: "pale_oak_pressure_plate[powered=false]"

After:

awaitingProtectionModes:
  - data: "AQVXb3JsZAAAAGQAAADI..."   # single Base64 blob
dirtyMarkers:
  - data: "AQV3b3JsZAAAAGQAAADI..."   # single Base64 blob

Both classes expose typed property getters (playerUuid, inventory, startLocation, location, blockData) that decode on demand, and static create(...) factory methods for construction.

Inventory slot order fix

Serialisation now uses Paper's ItemStack.serializeItemsAsBytes(*items) with nulls mapped to ItemStack.empty(), preserving all 41 slot indices. The old filterNotNull() call collapsed the sparse array into a dense one, causing items to land in wrong slots on restoration.

Removed

• Location.asString() extension
• List<ItemStack>.serializeItemsToBytes() extension
• String.toLocation() extension

All three were only used by the old constructors.

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