📜 Changelog

Version 1.0.2

Released: February 18, 2026

🚀 New

Added Interactive UI Dashboard (/playtime ui)

Clean custom UI built using Hytale’s InteractiveCustomUIPage

Displays:

• Total Playtime

• Current Session Time (live updating)

• Server Rank

• Online / Offline status indicator (live dot)

• Direct access to Leaderboard UI

• Built-in Player Search system

• HOME button to instantly return to your own profile

Fully styled custom interface (no default UI components)

🔎 Added Player Search System (Dashboard)

Search any tracked player directly inside the dashboard UI

• Click GO or press Enter

• Automatically switches dashboard to searched player

• HOME button returns to your own profile

• Clean inline validation message:

  • Displays “Invalid username: <name>” directly under the search bar

  • No chat spam

  • Professional red error styling

• Search is case-insensitive

• Works for online and offline players

🟢 Live Online Status Indicator

Dashboard now displays a dynamic colored dot:

• Green = Online

• Red = Offline

• Updates in real time

Status colors intelligently separated from Top 3 rank highlight colors.

Added Interactive Leaderboard UI

/playtime top now opens a fully interactive custom UI

• Pagination support

• Sort modes:

  • Total

  • Session

  • Week

• Real-time “Last Updated” indicator

• Online/offline status indicator

• Top 3 rank highlighting:

  🥇 #1 – Cyan/Blue
  🥈 #2 – Rank Yellow
  🥉 #3 – Orange

Consistent color system shared between Dashboard & Leaderboard
Improved row spacing & edge alignment for perfect visual symmetry

Added Full Permission Node System

• playtime.use

• playtime.ui

• playtime.check

• playtime.top

• playtime.admin

Compatible with:

• LuckPerms

• permissions.json

• Standard Hytale permission systems

Permission defaults:

• All normal commands allowed by default

• Admin commands denied by default (requires playtime.admin)

Added /playtime reload (Admin Command)

• Reloads config.yml

• Safely refreshes leaderboard cache

• No server restart required

• Safe to run while players are online

🎨 UI Improvements

• Refined leaderboard row spacing for balanced edge alignment

• Improved rank-to-dot spacing for cleaner layout

• Unified Top 3 rank colors between Dashboard and Leaderboard

• Adjusted highlight colors to avoid conflict with online status indicator

• Cleaner button styling and hover consistency

• Improved UI padding balance for professional finish

• Improved search row layout alignment (Input + HOME + GO centered cleanly)

• Professional inline validation styling for search errors

• Enhanced Dashboard polish and visual consistency

⚡ Performance Improvements

• Improved rank caching performance

• Leaderboard cache safely refreshes on reload

• UI update tick handling optimized

• Background UI refresh system stabilized

• Cleaner target-switch logic when searching players

• Reduced unnecessary UI repainting

• Improved internal data refresh handling for future admin updates

🔧 Internal Improvements

• Improved command structure for future expansion

• Cleaner internal permission handling (no more OP-only restrictions)

• Improved separation between UI logic and backend data handling

• Better state handling when switching dashboard targets

• Stabilized scheduled UI update executor

Version 1.0.1

Released: February 12, 2026

Improvements

• Backend optimizations to leaderboard caching

• Improved formatting consistency for leaderboard display

• Minor internal performance cleanup

• Stability improvements for offline player data handling

Version 1.0.0 (Initial Release)

Released: February 4, 2026

Features

• Session-based playtime tracking with zero performance impact

• /playtime command to view your own playtime

• /playtime check <player> command to view other players' playtime

• /playtime top [page] leaderboard with pagination

• Offline player support

• Real-time tracking includes active session time in leaderboard

• Configurable leaderboard caching (default: 60 seconds)

• Configurable time format (detailed or simple)

• Auto-save system (default: every 5 minutes)

• Persistent data storage survives server restarts

• Fully configurable via config.yml