SimpleProtect

SimpleProtect – Changelog

Added

• Bigger protections: placing a protection block inside your own protection, at least 15 blocks from your other protection blocks, adds its area to your protection. Blocks placed closer (like a beacon base) stay normal blocks.
• Connected protections act as one: connected protection blocks of the same owner form one protection. Allowed players are shared, and add/remove apply to all of it.
• Entity protection: visitors can't hurt or use animals, villagers, armor stands, item frames, paintings, boats, minecarts or end crystals inside a protection.
  • This covers melee, arrows, TNT they lit, and their tamed pets.
  • Monsters and players can always be fought, and so can any mob that attacks you. Fireballs can be hit back.
• Explosion protection: explosions don't destroy blocks inside protections. Creepers and other explosions no allowed player caused can't hurt protected entities.
• Fire protection: fire doesn't burn blocks inside protections.
• Piston protection: pistons outside a protection can't push, pull or break blocks inside it, or push blocks in. Sticky pistons and slime/honey contraptions are covered.
• Liquid protection: water and lava don't flow into protections.
• Dispenser protection: dispensers outside a protection can't place lava, water, fire or blocks inside it, or shoot into it.
• New commands:
  • /sprotection info: owner and allowed players of the protection you're in.
  • /sprotection list: your protection blocks.
  • /sprotection list <player> (operators): another player's protection blocks.
  • /sprotection bypass (operators): build in every protection. It ends when you're de-opped or leave.
  • /sprotection delete (operators): delete the protection you're standing in.
• Offline players: /sprotection add and /sprotection remove work for offline players. Tab completion suggests them.
• Config file: config/SimpleProtect_Seed_<seed>/SimpleProtect.json. Settings:
  • radius
  • protection block
  • per-player limit (default 10, extensions included)
  • extension distance
  • an on/off switch for each protection type
• README: documents how protections work, what's protected, every command, and the config.

Fixed

• Crash on start: a malformed protections file crashed the server. Now the mod stays off (players can't join) and the file is left untouched.
• Crashes from incomplete entries: entries without owner, dimension or owner name crashed the server. Broken entries are now skipped, and a copy of the original file is kept.
• Protections lost on a crash: a crash while saving could leave an empty file and silently lose every protection. Saves are now atomic.
• Protections where no block was placed: right-clicking a chest with an emerald block created a protection.
• Wrong position in grass: placing into grass recorded the protection one block too high, so it could never be removed.
• Re-placing a lost protection block reset its allowed players.
• Overlap checks ignored dimensions: a Nether protection blocked Overworld protections nearby.
• Griefing from just outside the edge: players could place blocks, pour lava, take water or light fire inside a protection from just outside it.
• Wrong bucket targeting: buckets were checked against the wrong block (fixed 5-block reach, ignoring liquids).
• Offline players couldn't be removed: /sprotection remove only worked on online players.
• Adding yourself: you could add yourself to your own protection.
• Name changes: changed player names were never updated in the protections file.
• Missing "entered" message: rejoining inside a protection didn't show it.
• Doubled denial messages: a denial message could show twice per click.
• Wrong protections in a new world: a new singleplayer world got the protections of the previous world.
• License file: the license file wasn't included in the jar.

Changed

• Protection block near someone else's protection: it is now placed as a normal block with a message, instead of being refused. Allowed players can decorate (beacons) in a friend's base.
• Protection block removal: a protection is removed only once its block is really broken.

Technical

• Mixins: added simpleprotect.mixins.json with mixins for ServerExplosion, FireBlock, PistonBaseBlock, FlowingFluid, LavaFluid, DispenserBlock and Entity.
• MixinExtras: used by two mixins. It is bundled with Fabric Loader, so no new dependency is needed.
• Name cache: name_cache.json in the protections folder (players who joined before, for offline commands).
• Data format: allowedNames was added. Existing files load as they are.
• Performance: protection lookups no longer copy the whole list, and the liquid, fire and explosion checks skip quickly when nothing nearby is protected.