SleepPolls

🌙 SleepPolls 2.0

The largest update in SleepPolls history.

This release introduces persistent player statistics, leaderboards, database support, improved sleep voting, and a major internal rewrite designed to provide a more reliable and scalable experience for modern Paper servers.

✨ New Features

📊 Persistent Statistics

SleepPolls now tracks player activity across server restarts.

Tracked statistics include:

• Total Votes
• Successful Votes
• Failed Votes
• Polls Started
• Nights Skipped

View your statistics with:

/sp stats

🏆 Leaderboards

A new leaderboard system has been added.

View the server's most active sleepers:

/sp top

💾 Database Support

SleepPolls now supports:

• SQLite
• MariaDB / MySQL

Features:

• Automatic table creation
• HikariCP connection pooling
• Async database operations
• Persistent player data

🌙 Sleep Voting Improvements

Interactive Voting

Players can vote directly from chat using clickable buttons:

✔ YES    ✖ NO

No command typing required.

Live Vote Tracking

• BossBar countdowns
• ActionBar updates
• Real-time vote counts
• Remaining time display

Smart Eligibility Detection

SleepPolls automatically excludes:

• AFK players (EssentialsX)
• Spectators
• Dead players
• Offline players

This ensures vote requirements only consider active players.

⚙️ Configuration Improvements

Expanded configuration support for:

• Poll duration
• Required vote percentage
• BossBars
• Sounds
• Weather clearing
• World blacklists
• Database backends

🛠 Commands

New Commands

/sp stats
/sp top

Available Commands

/sp help
/sp status
/sp yes
/sp no
/sp stats
/sp top
/sp bossbar
/sp version
/sp reload

🚀 Performance & Stability

Internal Improvements

• Complete architecture refactor
• Improved poll lifecycle management
• Better separation of responsibilities
• Cleaner service structure
• Reduced code duplication

Database Improvements

• Async database operations
• HikariCP connection pooling
• SQLite optimizations
• Improved connection handling

Modernization

• Java 25+
• Modern Paper API support
• Adventure Components
• Improved maintainability

🔮 Future Plans

Planned for future releases:

• Velocity network-wide sleep voting
• PlaceholderAPI support
• Localization support
• Customizable messages
• Per-world vote settings

❤️ Thank You

Thank you to everyone using, testing, and contributing to SleepPolls.

Version 2.0 lays the foundation for future expansion while delivering a modern, reliable, and feature-rich sleep voting experience for Paper servers.