Bukkit

3.7.10 - This release has a bug where some heads are missing names

• Fixed a rare (but harmless) console error when a player joins and leaves in the same tick
• Added camel head
• GameProfile lookup optimization and option to disable entirely for performance
• Moved Grumm/Dinnerbone heads to a separate texture file (downloaded only if enabled)
• Moved sideways-Shulker heads to a separate texture file (downloaded only if enabled)
• Moved colored-collar tamed cat/dog heads to a separate texture file (downloaded only if enabled)

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3.7.9

• Fixed "a/an" for English click-listener head info
• Support for new 1.19.3 Piglin heads
• Updated vex head texture
• Minor tweaks & cleanup in default config

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3.7.8

• Fixed an issue with player head stacking when texture-updates were disabled
• Fixed a console warning for missing textures (e.g. item_frame)
• Added the 7 new default player skins to the textures file
• More customizability for the 'dropheads.silentbehead' permission

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3.7.7.2

• Fixed an issue with spawn-cause-modifiers triggering "StringIndexOutOfBounds" on certain EntityDeathEvents

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3.7.7.1

• Fixed an issue when 'weapon-tellraw-component-cache-size' is 0 or undefined in the config causing NullPointerExceptions

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3.7.7

• Fixed an issue where /gethead could give Steve heads for players who had never joined the server
• Added 'METAMORPHOSIS' spawn-reason, which happens when tadpoles turn into frogs
• Added 'indirect-kill-threshold' config option, defaults to 30s
• Added support for 'update-on-skin-change: false', to prevent heads from updating when a player changes skins
• Added performance settings such as 'head-click-disable-web-lookup' to the default config
• Added an LRU-cache for weapon component hover-text in behead message (optimization)
• More profile lookup optimizations

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3.7.6

• Reworked 'specific-tool-multipliers' and 'time-alive-multipliers', and added customization per-entity for the second
• Added "Grumm" variants for all 1.19 heads
• Fixed an issue with the log.txt file encountered when certain named items were used to behead
• Code cleanup & optimizations

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3.7.5

• Fixed a potential compatibility issue with DropHeads + EssentialsX-2.19.4 on Paper-1.19

•  Added Goat head variations with missing horns

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3.7.4

• Minecraft 1.19 support
  
• Enabled colorful display names in behead messages

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3.7.3

• Fixed 'dropheads.alwaysbehead' not showing up in /droprate when it should
  
• Updated spawn-cause-modifiers.txt so entities from /summon and spawn eggs don't have decreased drop rates (was confusing too many people)
  
• Added 'dropheads.canbehead' sub-perms for individual mob types
  
• Better support for plugins that use the vanilla death message (e.g., DiscordSRV)
  

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3.7.2

• [MAJOR] Fixed DropHeads blocking non-behead player death messages
  
• [MAJOR] Fixed looting effect bug introduced in v3.7.0 (it was decreasing drop rate instead of increasing)
• Fixed a console error when replacing death messages for both players and pets is disabled
• Fixed a console error when logging head drops where no weapon was used
• Fixed another possible console error from head-click-msg
  
• Fixed an issue setting item name/lore that broke the plugin on 1.13-1.14 servers

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3.7.1

• Fixed a NullPointerException for indirect kills without a player
  
• Fixed a console error from head-click-msg

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3.7.0

• Fixed "a vs an" inconsistency in 'head-click-format-X'
• Fixed 'custom-droprate-multiplier-permissions' creating pointless child-perms
• Fixed inconsistent Shulker-head-rotation (direction looking)
• Fixed give-head-directly-to-killer drop mode
• Fixed bug with API events (missing static HandlerList function)
• Added Allay, Frog, Tadpole, and Warden heads (textures may not be 100% finalized)
• Added tentative pre-Jappa textures ('Programmer Art') heads for Horses and LLamas
• Added 'behead-message-replaces-pet-death-message' config option
• Added 'local-broadcast-distance' and 'local-broadcast-dimension' config options
• Added 'head-click-max-rate-in-ticks' config option
• Added feedback messages from /droprate and /gethead to translations.yml so they can now be configured
• Moved behead-messages from config.yml to translations.yml
• Lots of internal code refactoring
• Updated source code javadocs
• Created extension-Plugin: PeacefulPetHeads (Bukkit sub-page coming soon)

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3.6.15

• Fixed a bug where custom-droprate-multiplier-permissions were being ignored (when unquoted in the config)
  
• Increased accuracy of sideways-shulker head rotation detection
• (local: English) Improved indefinite article ('a' vs 'an') auto selection in head click-info

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3.6.14

• Added target selector support to /gethead arguments
• Added giveto:<target> selector for one or more recipients to /gethead
• Added inventory-target-slot argument  to /gethead
• Added additional explanation text to /droprate when the drop chance is zero.
• Added 'Screaming Goat Head (Grumm)'
  
• Added 'Magma Cube (Lava inside, Grumm)'
• Fixed a 1.18 issue with Ghast heads not dropping (and printing an error in console)

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3.6.13

• Minecraft 1.18 support
• Added 'Screaming Goat Head'
  
• Reworked /droprate to be way more detailed and a bit more native-language friendly
• Minor config tweaks (spelling, spacing, etc.)

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3.6.12

• Added 'custom-droprate-multiplier-permissions'
  
• Added head texture for upcoming Warden mob (1.19) and placeholders for other 1.19 mobs
• Added a 'replace-heads' setting which works just like 'update-zombie-pigman-heads' but can be configured for any head substitution
• Improved code for updating lore when refreshing old head items
  
• Minor polishing of the texture file

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3.6.11.2

• Fixed head stacking issue caused by lore-refreshing
  
• Fixed 'endermen-camouflage-heads' setting not working in v3.6.11
  
• Made it so 'cracked-iron-golem-heads' no longer depends on 'head-click-listener'

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3.6.11

• Fixed axolotl variants not dropping the correct colors
  
• Fixed middle-click console error
• Added '/gethead <selector> <head> <amount>'
• Optimized player GameProfile lookups
• Simplified item lore NBT (head type info)
  

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3.6.10

• Fixed an issue where spam-clicking heads with 'head-click-listener' enabled could cause excessive lag
  
• Enabled automatic texture 'update-on-skin-change' for players by default

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3.6.9

• Fixed an issue where beheading a mob with a missing texture (e.g., Armor Stand) could cause a crash
  
• Added drop chance for "Toast" Rabbit head from killing Toast-renamed rabbits
• Clicking heads of players who have never joined now gives accurate info (a 1.17 bug)
  
• Minor stability improvement for '/reload' and plugin reloaders in Java 16 when loading jar files (a 1.17 bug)
  

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3.6.8

• Fixed an issue with players dropping Steve heads in 1.17
  
• Started work on various other player profile issues that seems to have arisen in 1.17
  

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3.6.7

• Minecraft 1.17 support
  

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3.6.6

• Fixed bee and 21 common tropical fish variant heads not dropping (bug in 3.6.0)
  
• Fixed charged creeper killed by another charged creepers sometimes dropping a regular creeper head
  
• Changed lots of head textures to use more modern/accurate skins
• Added 'use-legacy-head-textures' config option and textures (partial support)
• Added 'transparent-slime-heads' config option
• Added '${URL}' placeholder for head click-info messages

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3.6.5

• Fixed texture issues for 'Gray Closed Upside-down Shulker' and 'X-Collared Ginger Cat'
  
• Fixed 'behead-announcement' potentially being changed from 'OFF' to 'DIRECT' for invisible players
• Added '/gethead <url>'
• Better stability for heads of players who have never joined the server
• head-textures.txt file now uses Mojang texture IDs by default (but will also continue to support Base64 values)

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3.6.4

• Fixed charged creepers still triggering vanilla head drops even when they disabled in the config
• Fixed '/gethead mob:PARROT' missing texture error (since v3.6.1) because no entity "default" subtype color was specified
• Added 3 missing textures for collared cats
• Rate-limited the clicking an iron golem head with ingots feature so it doesn't repair through multiple stages instantly
• Added a new optional feature 'endermen-camouflage-heads' which can make specific heads work like carved pumpkins

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3.6.3

• Changed how translation text is encoded, for better compatibility with plugins that rely on BungeeCord's limited component API
  
• Added 'mob-subtype-separator' option to translations.yml, which defaults to just a space character
  
• Moved 'head-click-format-X' options from the main config to translations.yml

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3.6.2

• Added 'texturekey-head-name-format' setting to translations.yml file
• Added 'dropheads.silentbehead.vanished' permission with support for Essentials and VanishNoPacket
• Updated head-drop-rates.txt for the upcoming 1.17 mobs

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3.6.1

• Fixed '/gethead code:xxx' and '/droprate <mob>'
• Fixed collar color for Blue- and Light_Gray- collared wolf heads
• Updated all textures to standard format of 64x64 pixels
  
• Updated lingering pre-Jappa textures (from Minecraft's 1.14+  texture overhaul)
• Added sidways-shulker and closed-shulker heads
• Various translation improvements; e.g., if using a future or unsupported translation key, it defaults to the English(or configured) name

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3.6.0

• Fixed a rare error messaged when wither skeletons were beheaded by a non-player
• Fixed wither skeletons sometimes not dropping skulls that they picked up from their dead friends
• Head name translation support!
• Added 1.17 mob head textures (not guaranteed to be finalized until Minecraft 1.17 is released)
• Head naming system overhaul and simplification
  
• Murder-weapon item display in behead message now consistently matches ingame formatting
• Full hex color support in 'head-click-format', and everywhere else as well
  
• Added HeadDropEvent and HeadRollEvent API classes

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3.5.4

• Changed all "SILVER" heads to "LIGHT_GRAY" to match Bukkit API's DyeColor enum
  

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3.5.3

• Fixed a rare NullPointerError message in the console when clicking on certain unrecognized heads
  
• Fixed a missing set of parentheses in the 'drop-for-nonplayer-kills' check
• Cleaned up 'vanilla-wither-skeleton-skulls' for better synergy with other config settings
• Added warning message if DropHeads detects another plugin messing with the wither skeleton drop rate
• Added 'dropheads.alwaysbehead' sub-perms (e.g., giving someone 'dropheads.alwaysbehead.cave_spider')
• Added an [amount] argument for /gethead, i.e, '/gethead mob:SHEEP 64'

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3.5.2

• Fixed 'hollow-skeletal-skulls' dropping non-vanilla material type skeleton skulls
• Added 'vanilla-wither-skeleton-skulls' option (fix dogs beheading wither skeletons and related things)

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3.5.1

• Added "Grumm" variants for hollow-skeletal-skulls
• Updated 'vanilla-wither-skeleton-looting-behavior' to included entities (i.e., tamed wolves)
  
• Allow priority-list support for 'head-item-drop-mode' with multiple modes
  
• Internal code cleanup and optimizations

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3.5.0

• Fixed creative NBT-copy-click item names
  
• Fixed custom-lore-saving combined with showing mob type in lore potentially losing one or the other.
• Added 'prevent-head-placement' config setting (false by default)
  
• Added 'prefer-vanilla-heads' config setting (true by default)
• Added 'hollow-skeletal-skulls' config setting
• Added support for custom drop rates for mob sub-types
• Added sub-permissions to /gethead for restricting spawn-access of heads for mobs/players/HeadDatabase/etc
• Added click-info customizable format for HDB heads and Unknown texture heads
• Added 'head-item-drop-mode' to control how head item are handled upon a beheading
• Changed "White Sheep Head" name to just "Sheep head"
  
• Preserve comments in head-textures.txt file when auto-updating the textures
• Various minor improvements for some textures

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3.4.5

• Fixed startup compatibility error messages with certain other plugins
  
• Minor code refactoring

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3.4.4

• Fixed console error when info-clicking heads with no profile data (placed by certain other plugins)
  
• Use an empty behead message to disable it entirely

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3.4.3

• Fixed bug with player-kill-threshold detection
• Fixed a compatibility bug with other (incorectly configured) plugins
• When UNKNOWN/DEFAULT entity drop rate is 0, register ALL death listeners (minecarts, paintings, mobs, etc.)
  

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3.4.2

• [MAJOR] Fixed v3.4.1 bug - heads were not dropping when using the default config
• Optimized DeathListeners for when certain categories of mobs all have a drop chance of 0

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3.4.1

• Added per-mob customization for behead announcement type
• Cold Strider heads now drop like they are supposed to
• Added 'drop-saddled-heads' config option; currently only applies for Striders (BETA)
• Added separate texture for Baby Zombie Pigmen (only affects Minecraft versions below 1.16)
• Slightly tweaked 'allow-indirect-kills' and 'allow-projectile-kills' to behave more like how they sound

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3.4.0

• Fixed indirect-kill-threshold edge case where mobs not killed by a place could still drop a head
• Fixed small possibility of Minecart/Boat heads dropping twice for a single VehicleDestroyEvent, when enabled (off by default)
• Added the remaining Villager and Zombie Villager variants!
• Added (dyed) Collared Dog heads
• Added (dyed) Collared Cat heads, for each cat variant
• Added config setting to adjust EntityDeathListener priority (can help with plugin compatibility, e.g., DeadChest)
• Added option to enable heads for "Hanging" entities, e.g., item_frames, paintings, and leash_hitch.
• Persistent spawn-reason-modifier using entity NBT
• 'LOCAL' range behead broadcasts now work cross-dimensionally (e.g., people through a nearby nether portal can see the message)
  
• Minor refactoring of the HeadAPI
  

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3.3.8

• Fixed a startup crash (occured when DropHeads and HDB were installed but Vault was not)
  
• Rewrote HDB integration, with better head item-tagging and /gethead usability
• Expanded on the /droprate command, including entity-on-cursor support (still in BETA!)
• Added 'update-texture' config setting; will be fully supported in v3.3.9 onward
  
• Added 'unstackable-heads' config setting, which can be used to make heads unstackable
  
• Minor optimizations in player-lookup code

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3.3.7

• Fixed issue with looting calculation (for level 0) when determining whether to drop heads
  
• Added a permission to enable/disable head drops from a specific player/mob (dropheads.candrophead, true by default)
• Added /droprate command
• Config file cleanup, with re-added support for legacy config (v3.2 and below)
• Enabled auto-updater by default

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3.3.6

• Fixed 'time-alive-modifier' not always getting applied
  
• Vanilla wither-skeleton looting now ONLY affects looting modifiers (and NOT the other modifiers)!
• Added config option to show head-type in item lore
• HDB integration for /gethead
• Added logging config option
  
• Synchronized behavior of EntityDeathListener and VehicleDestroyListener
• Minor code optimizations

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3.3.5.1

• Fixed looting multiplier breaking for high looting values
  
• Fixed behead message showing the weapon name twice
• Added a config option to replaced existing Zombie Pigmen Heads with Zombified Piglin Heads
• Removed console warnings for "Unknown EntityType: PIG_ZOMBIE"

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3.3.5

• Fixed loading and handling of 'looting-addition' setting
  
• Added cold/warm Strider head variants (cold variant is current unobtainable; waiting on Spigot!)
  
• Added "Grumm" variants for all 1.16 heads
• Added drop rate settings to the config file for all the 1.16 mobs
• "GRUMM" now shows up as a tab-complete option in /gethead

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3.3.4

• Fixed typo in default clickinfo config setting
  
• Made head-drop-rates.txt file prettier
• Removed repeated heads in debug command
• Added 2 config settings: 'looting-multiplier' and 'looting-addition', which let you change how looting affects drop rates
• Added 'vanilla-wither-skeleton-looting-behavior', which can be used to override the previous two settings
  
• Added textures for about a dozen more Zombie Villager biome variants (still W.I.P...)

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3.3.3

• Tool-bonus for projectile-kills is now based on the item used to fire the projectile (e.g., the Crossbow used to shoot a tipped arrow)
• Config option to only use 1 head texture for each mob type (boring!)
• Death messages when killed using an item now use exact vanilla by default: "X was decapitated by Y using [item]
• Added 'dropheads.clickinfo' permission for clicking a head to view its info
  

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3.3.2

• [MAJOR] Fixed: Item meta (lore, enchants, etc.) was being lost when head items were dropped
• Fixed: Custom item names are now properly italicized in behead broadcasts
• Fixed: Removed "Unknown Head" console warnings for heads from future Minecraft versions
• Rewrote Tellraw library, for things like hoverable text in death messages
• Added 'time-alive-modifiers', a way to modify drop rates based on an entity's age
  
• Added a new BETA feature for saving head item lore even when it gets placed as a block
• Option to display info for a placed head when it is right-clicked

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3.3.1

• Updated EvLib code library and organization
  
• Updated behead broadcast system to use the new EvLib features
• Items are now appropriately colored based on item rarity

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3.3.0

• Option to enable dropping Boat or Minecart heads
• Rewrote and optimized EntityDeathListener (again)
• Configurable behead announcement message
• Drop 1 head per charged creeper explosion by default (to mimic vanilla behavior)
• Added biome-specific villager heads
• Added Minecraft 1.16 mob heads
• Combine jar resource and '/plugins/DropHeads/' folder textures, for a more complete list (for people with outdated texture files)
• Improved texture for Stray head

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3.2.14

• Fixed a bug where if you threw head itemstacks on the ground some of the stacked heads would vanish
• Fixed a bug where the plugin didn't always respect the 'player-kills-only' config setting
• Fixed a bug where heads placed on an armorstand wouldn't drop unless the armorstand was broken by a player
• Changed 'Stray Head' to 'Stray Skull' (and also for other skeletal mobs, e.g., Skeleton_Horse)
• Added more Tropical Fish heads, we now have 16/22 of the common varieties!
• Reduced console startup messages

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3.2.13

• Minecraft 1.13+ support
  
• Added Bee Head variants and new Grumm textures

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3.2.11-12

• Must use 1.14.X, not backwards compatible!
• Fixed NullPointerException error in console when running /gethead with no arguments on a new account with no skin
• Changed code source & compliance to Java 8 (for support for people who don't update Java)

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3.2.10

• Must use 1.14.X, not backwards compatible!
• Fixed incorrect wither skull drop rate
• Fixed occasional head double-drop when killed by a charged creeper
• Renamed (via. anvil, etc.) heads should now retain their custom names

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3.2.9

• Must use 1.14.X, not backwards compatible!
• Fixed 'nolooting' config option not being respected
• Fixed all issues where plugin breaks after a /reload and must be re-downloaded
• Added two new config options: 'drop-for-ranged-kills' and 'drop-for-indirect-kills'
• Removed evp. prefix from permissions, this may break existing setups

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3.2.8

• Must use 1.14.X, not backwards compatible!
• Better player- and entity-head lookup system
• Tab complete for /gethead
• Code abstractions & cleanup
• Red vs. Snow fox distinguishing issue fixed

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3.2.7

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3.2.6

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3.2.5

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3.2.4

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3.2.3

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3.2.0

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3.1.3

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3.1.2