MC Aura v0.2

🌀 MinecraftAura v0.2 Release Notes

NOTE: This is NOT production-ready.

It is ONLY intended for development and debugging purposes.

✨ Features

• /aura main command with subcommands: help, greet, bye, configreload
• Command aliases: /greeting, /goodbye
• Targeted greetings: /greet <player> sends messages directly instead of spamming global chat
• Optional broadcasting when greeting yourself

⚙️ Configuration & Control

• Custom greetings and bye messages via external .txt files
• Full support for & color codes (translated safely at load time)
• Separate cooldowns for:
  • /greet and /bye
  • /aura configreload
• debug mode for verbose startup and runtime logging

🔐 Permissions

• aura.cmd.greet: use /greet

• aura.cmd.bye: use /bye

• aura.greet: receive join greetings

• aura.bye: receive quit messages

• aura.reloadconfig: reload config

• aura.aura: admin of the plugin permission (ALL)

• NOTE: You can use Luckperms to manage permissions of this plugin

🧠 Stability & Security

• Thread-safe cooldown handling
• Proper cleanup on player quit
• Path traversal protection for custom message files
• Safe shutdown behavior
• Defensive config validation with sane limits

🧩 Compatibility

• Works on Paper
• Minecraft 1.20.1+ though I recommend using 1.20.4+
• Java 17 minimum (Also is the minecraft minimum)

👤 Player Experience

• Just works out of the box
• Players get greeted and/or goodbyed
• Players can greet others or themselves
• Maybe roasted if used my default messages/you savage ones!

MC Aura v0.1

🌀 MinecraftAura v0.1 Release Notes

✨ Core Features

• Random join and quit messages
• Commands:
  • /greeting — broadcast a random greeting
  • /bye — broadcast a random farewell
  • /configreload — reload config.yml
• Messages use %player% placeholder
• Simple, global broadcast

⚙️ Configuration

• Toggle join messages
• Toggle quit messages
• Hide vanilla join/quit messages
• Single cooldown for /greeting and /bye

🔐 Permissions

• aura.greeting — use /greeting
• aura.bye — use /bye
• aura.configreload — reload config
• aura.cooldown.bypass — bypass command cooldown

🧠 Technical Notes

• Thread-safe cooldown tracking
• Automatic cleanup on player quit
• Java 17
• Works on Paper / Spigot (1.20+)

⚠️ Limitations

• No /aura parent command
• No subcommands or aliases
• No file-based messages
• No debug mode
• No targeted messages (always global)

A clean, simple foundation version.

Please upgrade to v0.2 if you want the latest features BUT it WILL have bugs.