v0.1.1

Changed

• Reworked the public README with a project banner, compatibility matrix, quick start, command
  reference and clearer preview-status messaging.
• Added the MIT licence, contribution guide, support policy, code of conduct, security policy,
  issue forms, pull request template and release runbook.
• Hardened GitHub Actions with immutable action SHAs, least-privilege permissions, wrapper
  validation, concurrency limits, exact artifact selection and SHA-256 release checksums.
• Made every Gradle archive reproducible, added implementation metadata to jar manifests and
  embedded the TerraForge licence in distributable jars.
• Added tag-driven Modrinth publishing for the Paper plugin.

Fixed

• Fail closed when the prepared DEM directory cannot be opened instead of continuing with a
  partially initialized plugin.
• Reject configured data paths that escape the TerraForge plugin directory.

v0.1.0

First tagged release. A world generated with this version has the real relief, coastlines, water
and land cover of the Earth, and nothing man-made.

World generation

• Earth coordinate system: GeoPoint, EarthLocation, CoordinateTransformer, geodesic distances
  (Vincenty) and bearings.
• Projections: Web Mercator, equirectangular and plate carrée, selected in terraforge.yml.
• DEM pipeline: .tfdem tiles written offline, memory-mapped and sampled at runtime, with voids
  carried through preparation rather than filled.
• Terrain generation: surface palette, vertical scaling, bedrock, sea level and ocean floor.
• Water from prepared natural-water polygons; land cover from prepared .tflc grids, both falling
  back conservatively when coverage is missing.
• Biomes derived from land cover, refined by elevation, latitude and water state.
• Natural features only. Roads, buildings, railways, bridges, airports and power lines have no code
  path, and the plugin refuses to start if any of them is switched on.

Server

• /earth — info, whereami (country, region, nearest place, real elevation), coords,
  distance, country, city, teleport city|country, cache, pregenerate, towny, debug
  (one-off report and a live per-player overlay) and reload, with tab completion for arguments.
• /earth reload re-validates the config, clears caches and reloads the prepared geography without
  a restart. The generator is deliberately not hot-swapped: that would seam the world.
• Bounded pregeneration driven from in-game, one chunk per tick.
• Bounded, instrumented caches for DEM tiles, chunk samples and geography.

Integrations

• Towny/NewTowny: towns annotated with real coordinates, elevation, country and region on
  creation, spawn move and rename, and forgotten on deletion. /earth towny refresh backfills towns
  that predate the plugin. SQLite writes run on their own thread; Towny and Bukkit are read only on
  the server thread.
• BlueMap: cities, capitals, countries and regions published as TerraForge-owned marker sets,
  re-published after every BlueMap reload. Only sets prefixed terraforge- are ever touched, so
  Towny's own markers are left alone. GeoMarkerService lets other plugins register markers with or
  without BlueMap installed.

Offline CLI

• prepare-dem — SRTM .hgt and north-up WGS84 GeoTIFF into .tfdem tiles.
• prepare-boundaries, prepare-cities, prepare-landcover, prepare-geo — administrative
  boundaries, the GeoNames gazetteer with alternate names, land cover and natural water.
• prepare-region — every dataset for one bounding box in a single pass and one transaction.
• validate — overlapping boundaries, duplicate ISO codes and names, misplaced regions and cities,
  missing or duplicated capitals, plus a coverage report. --strict makes it a CI gate.
• pregenerate — plans a chunk set and checks DEM coverage without writing anything.
• info — what the configured world will look like.