SkyRandom 1.2.0

Hey everyone! SkyRandom 1.2.0 brings Minecraft 26.3 support, lobby spectating, and fixes for player state and statistics.

This release keeps Minecraft 26.2 compatibility and lets players waiting in the lobby watch an ongoing match. Obtainable new blocks available on a 26.3 server automatically join the existing random block pool.

New

• Added Fog of War: Darkness limits visibility for all active players for 12 seconds.
• Added Position Swap: two random active players exchange safe positions after a 3-second warning. The swap is cancelled if either player becomes ineligible or unsafe before it happens.
• Added Minecraft 26.3 support while keeping compatibility with 26.2.
• Obtainable new blocks automatically join the random block pool when running on 26.3.
• Added a Watch the Match Ender Eye in lobby hotbar slot 8.
• Players waiting for the next round can now spectate an ongoing match. Spectators use slot 2 to follow active players and slot 9 to return to the lobby.
• Players who stay to spectate can participate in the next round.

Fixes

• Fixed a real Darkness potion effect expiring or changing prematurely clearing Fog of War. The visual overlay retains its original 12-second deadline.
• Strengthened Position Swap checks to exclude flying players even when their ground flag is stale.
• Fixed original inventories being cleared or overwritten before their state was saved during lobby preparation when player restoration is enabled.
• Improved restoration of player items, total experience, and exhaustion, with separate copies of saved items.
• Fixed delayed lobby preparation interfering with players already in an arena.
• Fixed Sudden Hunger restoring food after a player had left the arena or become a spectator.
• Fixed inventory dragging bypassing menu and spectator restrictions.
• Fixed competitive statistics being recorded during solo-test eliminations.
• Empty arenas now reset immediately when the last player leaves.
• Returning from spectator mode on a dedicated server restores lobby utility items, allowing players to spectate again.

Improvements

• Batched statistics updates instead of rewriting the statistics file after every kill, death, or round update.
• Moved statistics file writing to a dedicated background thread.
• Added safe file replacement and a final statistics flush when the plugin stops.

Notes

• Target server software: Paper and Purpur for Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3. Java 25 is required.
• On 26.2, only blocks available in 26.2 can drop. On 26.3, obtainable new blocks join the same automatic pool with equal selection weight within that pool.
• Rare Sulfur Cubes with primed TNT and a six-second fuse remain available.
• Random Events and Shrinking Zone remain optional BETA modifiers.
• Older 1.21.11 and 26.1.x servers should use older SkyRandom versions.