Bukkit

Required plugin versions

WorldGuard: 6.0 or higher
WorldEdit: 6.0 or higher
Vault: 1.4.1 or higher

WARNING

If you are updating from a lower AreaShop version then it is required to generate a new config.yml and default.yml file! If you keep using the old config then the flags of the WorldGuard region will be set incorrectly (resulting in players unable to access their regions). Generating new config files will also give you immediate access to all new features and settings, which are quite a lot.

Features added/changed

• Changed the '/as info region' command to show more relevant information: These are almost all things that could show there, some lines will not show up when based on config options (extending, in advance renting, restoring), some don't show up if empty (friends, signs) and some don't show up based on permissions (groups, teleport location, restoring).
• Adding friends to your region is now possible with '/as addfriend <player> [region]' (delete with '/as delfriend <player> [region]'), by default these players will also be added as member of the region, this can however be changed in the 'flagProfiles' section of config.yml. By default friends can also teleport to the regions they are added to, deny permission 'areashop.teleportfriend' to stop this.
• Automatic unrenting for players that are inactive for a certain period of time ('inactiveTimeUntilUnrent' and 'inactiveTimeUntilSell' in default.yml, so this can also be changed for groups of regions or individual ones) OPs are excluded by default, those regions will not be unrented/sold.
• Added a argument to '/as find' to specify a group, it will only search for regions in that group if specified. Could be useful to create command signs and let players automatically get a region that is at a certain place.
• Added a command '/as me', which lists all your rent and buy regions, plus regions you are added as friend.
• Added a '/as setowner <player> [region]' command to change the owner of a region without triggering events for commands, schematics or money transactions (using this command on a rent region with the player that already rents it will extend the region by 1 time period).
• Added a '/as resell <price> [region]' command to let players put their bought region into resell mode. If they do that the sign will indicate you can buy the region (shows [Resale] at the top), but the owner can still do anything like normal. When another player buys the region then the money will get transferred to the original owner and the new player will be owner (then the sign shows [Sold] again). If a player changed his mind and does not want to resell his region anymore he can use '/as resell'.
• Added a tag %timeleft% for signs to show the time that a rent has left instead of the end date, AreaShop will update signs that have this every minute by default (check the values in the 'signs' section at the bottom of the config to change this)
• All files (config.yml, default.yml, groups.yml, <region>.yml and <lang>.yml) are now loaded in UTF-8 mode, so now they support all fancy characters like € or ê.
• Limitgroups for limiting how much regions a player can buy/rent have changed to be more flexible. Now a 'worlds' and 'groups' section can be added to a group to let the limits only count for regions in these worlds and groups. This allows for different limits for regions in different world (let players have max 2 plots in creative, while limiting the number of shops in survival to 1) the groups allow you to limit certain type of regions that are in the same world.
• The limitgroup 'unlimited' that was normally in the config by default has been removed and now the permission 'areashop.limitbypass' allows you to ignore the limits (default to OPs)
• The 'areashop.setteleportoutsideregion' permission now works correctly
• Added a setting to specify the maximum time a rent region can be rented in advance: 'maxRentTime' in default.yml. This prevents players from renting a region a year in advance, instead they have to extend their rent every now and then.
• Added 'areashop.teleportsignall' permission to teleport to signs of region you do not own (default for OPs)
• If a language string contains tags other then %0%, %1%, %2% etc, then all tags for regions can be used (check the config.yml file on the Config Sytem page to see all available tags)
• All places where tags can be used, now also language strings can be inserted. Use %lang:<key>%, where <key> is the part before the colon in the language file. All tags that are available in the original string will be available in the inserted language string.
• The default commands that are executed by clicking on signs now use the full '/areashop' instead of '/as' to prevent collisions with commands of other plugins.
• The number of digits behind the decimal point of prices can be changed with the 'fractionalNumbers' setting in config.yml, the setting 'hideEmptyFractionalPart' determines if the '.0' part of a number should be hidden or not. Default settings produce numbers like this: '$10', '$5,50', '$3.45'.
• Fixed a bug with with money withdrawal: If a player is in world A and buys a region in world B the plugin now correctly withdraws money from world B.
• Added a setting to force a user to be in the correct world before he can buy/rent a region: 'restrictedToWorld' in default.yml
• Added a setting to force a user to be inside the region before he can buy/rent it: 'restrictedToRegion' in default.yml
• Added a warning system for players to indicate their rent is running out, 'expirationWarningProfiles' section in the config. Different times can be specifed when a message should be sent and a custom list of commands can be executed (all region tags can be used)
• Added a settting 'warningOnLoginTime' to default.yml, when a rent region has less then this time left when the owner of it logs in it will send a warning message to the owner.
• The command '/as rentduration' is renamed to '/as setduration' to be consistent with the other commands
• The flagprofiles changed, owners and members now take a list of UUID's, when setting to a region only these will be set (others are cleared). It is now possible to add groups to owners/members by using 'g:<group>' in the list, this does the same as '/region addmember <region> g:<group>'. It is now possible to specify the group a flag is about, use 'g:<members|non_members|owners|non_owners|all>', can for example be used to only let members of a region walk into it.
• If a schematic is wrongly sized compared to the region size AreaShop will print a warning in the console (but it will still restore it)

Performance improvements

• Operations that change/check multiple regions have been changed to do this spread over multiple ticks (now it does a certain number of regions per second instead of all at once, prevents lag spikes for if you have a lot of regions). At the bottom of the config is a section 'Limits and Timings' where the speed of these tasks can be changed. The following actions have been changed to this new system (NEW indicates that this is added for a new feature of this update):
  • Checking expiration of rent regions
  • Updating of regions when using '/as updaterents' or '/as updatebuys'
  • Checking of regions for players that are inactive for too long (NEW)
  • Periodic sign updates of regions for when it has tags like %timeleft% (NEW)
  • Saving region files, now regions only get saved every 10 minutes now by default. Only regions that actually changed will be saved, when shutting down the server it will also safe the regions to prevent data loss. This task also handles saving the groups.yml file (also only saved when necessary) and saving of WorldGuard regions (uses the saveChanged() method of WorldGuard to only save regions that require it).
  • Checking for when to send warning about rent expiration to players (NEW)

• Owners flag does not work correctly, can be fixed by using '%uuid% %friendsuuid%' instead of '%uuid%, %friendsuuid%', has also been fixed in AreaShop V2.1.1
• The "conversion to a new version of the file format starts, could take some time" message is printed to console every server startup/reload (but it does not do anything bad to the files), has been fixed in AreaShop V2.1.1
• Saves the groups.yml file when it is not needed, to edit this file you need to stop the server first and start it again after you edited it, has been fixed in AreaShop V2.1.1