Update v1.0.5

Changelog

1.0.5

Added

• Colored startup banner showing version, author, storage backend and active bounty count.
• Colored Vault and PlaceholderAPI hook status, including failure details and a retry when no economy provider is registered yet.
• Minimum and maximum bet limits, plus confirmation for large bets.
• Per-player bet cooldown.
• Bet expiry with optional refunds.
• Victim notifications when a bounty is placed on them (toggleable).
• Anti-abuse option that blocks claims when the killer and victim share an IP.
• On-screen title and sound when a bounty is claimed (toggleable).
• Bounty menu search with a dialog input, clear-search button and filtered title.
• /bounty search <query> command that opens the menu already filtered.
• bounty top entries are clickable, and previous/next page links work from chat.
• Tab completion suggests online player names only.
• Optional PlaceholderAPI expansion for top bounties, top bettors, player bounties and the active total.

Changed

• Version now lives in paper-plugin.yml; removed the unused Gradle resource expansion.
• Removed the leftover BountyStorage interface and an unused ApiStatus import.
• Modrinth releases now declare VaultUnlocked as the required Vault-compatible dependency and PlaceholderAPI as optional. VaultUnlocked is a drop-in fork that still registers as Vault, so original Vault remains supported.
• Internal cleanup: shared SQL write helper, coalesced top-bettor refreshes, batched expiry, cached totals/message prefix, bounded bet-cooldown cache, and merged small source files.

Fixed

• The bet-expiry task is now cancelled before storage shuts down.
• Database retries only repeat connection failures, so constraint or SQL errors cannot be written twice.
• Clicking a GUI slot with no action no longer schedules a task.

Performance

• Bounty changes use one background write path, and burst changes trigger a single top-bettor refresh instead of one per change.
• Expiry is processed as one batch, with one cache invalidation and one refresh.
• The GUI uses an array-backed slot map and reuses its filler component, reducing short-lived allocations.

Update v1.0.4

Changelog

1.0.4

Fixed

• Database writes no longer run on the main thread, which removes lag spikes. Bounties update in memory instantly and save in the background, in order, and are flushed on shutdown.
• Betting adds to a bounty in one step, so two bets cannot overwrite each other.
• Setting a bounty to 0 now removes it instead of leaving a dead row in the database.
• Storage failures are logged instead of being silently lost.
• The cancel button on dialogs now uses the same command mechanism as the confirm button.

Changed

• Subcommands you lack permission for are hidden from tab completion.
• Bet amounts below 0.01 are rejected by the command itself.
• Version is defined once, in build.gradle.kts, and filled into paper-plugin.yml.
• About a third less code overall (1377 to 917 Kotlin lines); BountyCommand, BetDialog, SqlStorage, MessageHandler and BountyPlugin were rewritten more compactly.

Removed

• BountyStorage interface (merged into SqlStorage).
• Unused set-bounty dialog and unused messages.
• Redundant Vault check on enable, since paper-plugin.yml already requires Vault.

Update v1.0.3

Changelog

1.0.3

Added

• Bounty menu: /bounty opens a chest menu of all bounties, sorted highest to lowest.
• Menu size adapts to the number of bounties and paginates past gui.max-rows.
• New-bounty button at the bottom center, with previous/next page buttons.
• Bet dialog when clicking a bounty, and a new-bounty dialog.
• Chat fallback with a clickable, auto-filled /bounty bet command when the Dialog API is unavailable.
• Live menu refresh when bounties are added, changed or claimed.
• /bounty info shows author, version and API version.
• bounty.gui, bounty.info and bounty.check permissions registered.
• gui section in config.yml.
• SQL storage: SQLite by default, MySQL optional, with a configurable table prefix.
• Missing keys are added to an existing messages.yml automatically.

Changed

• Now a Paper plugin (paper-plugin.yml) using Brigadier commands with typed arguments and suggestions.
• Bounties moved from bounties.json to a SQL database.
• Vault is required through a dedicated economy service, with better payment failure handling.
• /bounty reload also reloads config.yml.
• Leaderboard cache is rebuilt only when bounties change, with stable ordering for equal amounts.
• Bounty data is thread-safe.
• Code reorganised into handlers/ and gui/.
• Gradle wrapper added and build scripts updated.
• Supports Paper 1.21.11 through 26.x.

Removed

• Legacy plugin.yml and the old command handler.
• JSON storage.

Upgrade notes

• Existing bounties.json data is not imported automatically.
• Add the new gui section to an existing config.yml, or delete the file to regenerate it.

Update v1.0.2

• Added /bounty top

Update v1.0.1

• Added new death bonus claim function
• Added new VaultAPI hook
• Fixed a bug where the plugin would crash if the user save files is corrupted or null
• Added new MessageHandler system to create new lines in your yml file when you update the plugin
• Fixed various other bugs.

Release 1.0

Bounty Plugin

A simple Paper Minecraft bounty plugin written in Kotlin.

Features

• Set player bounties
• Add to existing bounties
• Remove bounties
• Check player bounties
• Customizable messages.yml
• MiniMessage support with HEX colors and gradients
• Reload messages without restarting
• Permission support
• Tab completion

Commands

/bounty check <player>
/bounty set <player> <amount>
/bounty bet <player> <amount>
/bounty remove <player>
/bounty reload

Permissions

bounty.set
bounty.remove
bounty.reload