Kenny 5.0.0

Kenny 5.0.0 is the first public release after 3.0.0. It includes all reliability, persistence, multiplayer, configuration, balance, localization, and release-quality work developed during the unpublished 4.x and 5.0 milestones.

Added

• Added a unified encounter director for multiplayer:
  • Eligible players are selected with fair round-robin rotation.
  • Overworld and End player pools are handled independently.
  • Survival and Adventure players are valid targets.
  • Creative and Spectator players remain ignored.
• Added automatic Overworld and End encounter handoff when only one global Kenny is allowed:
  • Kenny vanishes from the Overworld when an eligible player enters The End.
  • The End encounter receives priority and starts shortly afterward.
  • The Overworld lifecycle resumes after no eligible End players remain.
• Added complete live configuration commands:
  • /kenny config get <field> reads any supported server configuration field.
  • /kenny config set <field> <value> validates, saves, and immediately applies a field.
  • /kenny config preset solo applies singleplayer-oriented scaling.
  • /kenny config preset group applies small-group scaling.
  • /kenny config preset server applies larger-server scaling.
  • Existing hunt-day and WATCH-delay commands remain available for compatibility.
• Added configurable multiplayer scaling:
  • healthPerAdditionalPlayer increases Kenny's health for every additional eligible player.
  • damagePerAdditionalPlayer increases Kenny's damage for every additional eligible player.
• Added configurable kill rewards:
  • killGoldenAppleReward controls enchanted golden apple quantity.
  • rewardPotionCount controls strong potion quantity after the first kill.
• Added configurable final victory rewards:
  • victoryDiamondReward controls diamond quantity.
  • victoryNetheriteReward controls netherite ingot quantity.
• Added configurable Kenny Totem regeneration:
  • Regeneration can be enabled or disabled.
  • Regeneration interval is configurable.
  • Regeneration duration is configurable.
  • Regeneration amplifier is configurable.
• Added native per-world persistence for:
  • Kenny Day progression.
  • WATCH counters.
  • Kenny kill count.
  • Initial spawn timers.
  • Respawn timers.
  • Retry cooldowns.
  • Overworld and End spawn modes.
  • Active Kenny UUIDs.
  • Permanent victory.
• Added automatic migration from legacy Kenny world-state files.
• Added per-player Day, objective, and hunt-start notices:
  • Players joining at different times receive the correct current progression messages.
  • One player receiving a notice no longer consumes it for every other player.
• Added a kenny:breakable_by_kenny block tag:
  • Datapacks can control which blocks Kenny may break.
  • Block breaking still respects the mobGriefing game rule.
• Added persistent custom-data identification for the Kenny Totem.
• Added complete English and Indonesian gameplay translations.
• Added missing subtitles for Kenny sound events.
• Added regression coverage for configuration validation, resources, encounter rotation, and world-state serialization.
• Added automated build validation and expanded installation, configuration, migration, command, and server documentation.

Changed

• Changed Kenny Day and encounter persistence from manually written world JSON to the game's native saved-data system.
• Changed configuration ownership to the server:
  • The server configuration file is authoritative.
  • Live configuration commands apply values to active encounters.
  • Active Kenny attributes refresh after configuration changes.
• Changed multiplayer targeting from nearest-player-only selection to fair rotation across eligible players.
• Changed dimension targeting to distinguish the Overworld, Nether, and End correctly.
• Changed encounter priority so The End cannot be blocked by an existing Overworld Kenny.
• Changed active-entity recovery:
  • Tracked UUIDs survive temporary chunk unloads.
  • Missing entities receive an unload grace period before their state is cleared.
  • Overworld and End recovery counters advance independently.
  • Duplicate recovery scans are rate-limited.
• Changed Kenny's direct targeting logic:
  • awarenessRange now controls target acquisition.
  • escapeRange now controls when a distant target is released.
• Changed obstacle breaking:
  • Kenny respects mobGriefing.
  • Kenny only breaks blocks allowed by kenny:breakable_by_kenny.
  • Datapacks can replace or extend the allowed block list.
• Changed Kenny Totem verification:
  • A persistent marker determines whether the item is genuine.
  • Display name alone is no longer accepted.
• Changed kill rewards:
  • The default enchanted golden apple reward was reduced from 45 to 4.
  • Potion and apple quantities are now configurable.
• Changed final victory rewards:
  • The default diamond reward was reduced from 80 to 16.
  • The default netherite ingot reward was reduced from 40 to 4.
  • Both quantities are now configurable.
• Changed Kenny Totem effects from hard-coded regeneration values to validated configuration.
• Changed multiplayer balance so Kenny can scale health and damage with the number of eligible players.
• Changed notice delivery from global state to per-player state.
• Changed encounter-day tracking to use the Overworld clock and preserve forward-only Kenny progression.
• Changed state synchronization so unchanged values are not marked dirty every server tick.
• Changed configuration writes to use atomic replacement and explicit error logging.
• Changed English WATCH dialogue from You have %s day(s) to leave. to You have %s days to leave.
• Changed release packaging and documentation to use a consistent Kenny 5.0.0 version identity across supported builds.

Fixed

• Fixed renamed vanilla Totems of Undying being accepted as Kenny Totems.
• Fixed enableKennyTotemDrop being ignored by player-kill rewards.
• Fixed Kenny Totems and other rewards being dropped twice through overlapping death-loot paths.
• Fixed an Overworld Kenny blocking The End encounter when the global entity limit was one.
• Fixed Kenny failing to hand off correctly between the Overworld and The End.
• Fixed Nether players being treated as Overworld encounter targets.
• Fixed unloaded Kenny UUIDs being cleared after a short lookup failure.
• Fixed duplicate Kenny entities appearing after temporarily unloaded chunks returned.
• Fixed Overworld and End missing-entity grace counters delaying each other.
• Fixed permanent-defeat state being synchronized and marked dirty every tick.
• Fixed Day and hunt-start notices being consumed globally before every connected player received them.
• Fixed disconnected player UUIDs accumulating in anomaly cooldown tracking.
• Fixed disconnected player UUIDs accumulating in notice tracking.
• Fixed awarenessRange being displayed in diagnostics but not used by direct targeting.
• Fixed escapeRange being displayed in diagnostics but not used by direct targeting.
• Fixed initial spawn timers being lost or desynchronized after restarts.
• Fixed respawn timers being lost or desynchronized after restarts.
• Fixed retry cooldowns being lost or desynchronized after restarts.
• Fixed Overworld and End spawn modes being lost or desynchronized after restarts.
• Fixed active Kenny UUIDs being lost or desynchronized after restarts.
• Fixed permanent victory being lost or desynchronized after restarts.
• Fixed Kenny's WATCH phase not surviving entity saves consistently.
• Fixed Kenny's spawn phase not surviving entity saves consistently.
• Fixed Kenny's attack phase not surviving entity saves consistently.
• Fixed Kenny's death phase not surviving entity saves consistently.
• Fixed worlds with an already-defeated Ender Dragon failing to restore permanent victory correctly.
• Fixed unsafe obstacle breaking that ignored mobGriefing.
• Fixed obstacle breaking that could not be controlled by datapacks.
• Fixed maxKennyGlobal not being fully enforced.
• Fixed playerHitsToKill not being fully applied.
• Fixed enableDebugCommands not completely controlling debug command availability.
• Fixed Kenny Totem drop controls not being applied to every death path.
• Fixed invalid or extreme configuration values not being consistently clamped.
• Fixed configuration reloads leaving active Kenny health, speed, damage, knockback, or follow range outdated.
• Fixed reward quantities remaining hard-coded after configuration reloads.
• Fixed Totem regeneration timing and strength remaining hard-coded.
• Fixed encounter-day calculation depending on ad-hoc time state instead of the Overworld clock.
• Fixed repeated full-world recovery scans running too frequently.
• Fixed stale target selection repeatedly favoring one multiplayer player.
• Fixed missing English gameplay translations.
• Fixed missing Indonesian gameplay translations.
• Fixed missing Kenny sound subtitles.
• Fixed duplicate legacy resource layouts causing unnecessary model and animation ambiguity.
• Fixed misleading client configuration behavior on dedicated servers.
• Fixed the unnatural English day(s) WATCH message.

Removed

• Removed the client-only Mod Menu configuration screen:
  • It could not safely represent or edit dedicated-server-owned configuration.
  • Server configuration remains available through the configuration file and commands.
• Removed duplicate legacy GeckoLib model resources.
• Removed duplicate legacy GeckoLib animation resources.
• Removed the empty legacy kenny/datamod.txt artifact.
• Removed manual writes to the legacy Kenny Day Rules JSON file:
  • The old file is now read only when migration is required.
• Removed duplicate custom death-loot execution after explicit reward generation.
• Removed repeated world-state writes when encounter values have not changed.
• Removed unnecessary full-world entity scans from normal server ticks.
• Removed reliance on display names for Kenny Totem verification.

Notes

• This is the first public Kenny release after 3.0.0.
• Versions 4.0.0 through 4.2.0 were internal development milestones and were never published separately.
• Every change from those unpublished milestones is included in Kenny 5.0.0.
• This changelog applies to all official Kenny 5.0.0 builds.
• Exact Minecraft version, loader, Java version, and dependency requirements depend on the downloaded file.
• Check the compatibility and dependency information on the download page before installing.
• Install Kenny and all required dependencies in every environment marked as required by that build.
• Singleplayer, LAN, multiplayer, and dedicated-server availability depends on the platform information listed for the build.
• Existing worlds preserve:
  • Kenny Day progression.
  • WATCH progression.
  • Kenny kill count.
  • Spawn and respawn lifecycle.
  • Active encounter state.
  • Permanent Ender Dragon victory.
• Legacy Kenny Day Rules data is migrated automatically.
• Legacy permanent-victory data is migrated automatically.
• Existing configuration files receive missing fields with safe defaults.
• Existing valid configuration values are preserved.
• Reward defaults are intentionally lower than in 3.0.0.
• Server owners can restore larger rewards through the new reward configuration fields.
• /kenny reset resets the active encounter and its timers.
• /kenny reset does not erase permanent Ender Dragon victory.
• Killing the Ender Dragon still permanently seals Kenny for that world.
• Back up existing worlds and configuration files before upgrading.
• All Rights Reserved.
• Official releases are distributed through Kenny's official Modrinth and CurseForge pages.