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📦 Advanced Delivery Drones

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**Version 1.0.5** Licensed under the [Apache 2.0 License](LICENSE). Physical drone deliveries for Minecraft Paper servers: visible flight, package inventories, sockets, animal transport, blacklists, Discord webhooks, and fully configurable GUIs. > **🗺️ Roadmap** > - ✅ **Hierarchical permission system** — fine-grained permissions for all commands > - ✅ **Feature toggles** — enable/disable sockets and player-to-player deliveries > - ✅ **Translation files** — `languages/*.yml` (de_DE, en_EN, es_ES, fr_FR, ru_RU, zh_CN) > - ✅ **Cross-dimension delivery** — drones between Overworld, Nether, and End > - ✅ **Landing improvements (1.0.1)** — elytra/airborne follow, pre-landing safety check, distance-based landing notification > - 📋 **Future:** Mysql support for Database saving --- ## ✨ Features ### 🚁 Physical drone flight - Armor-stand drone with custom skull texture flies from sender to target in real time - **Launch animation** (optional): rise, spin, particles, and sound (`launch-animation.*`) - **Startup phase**: slow acceleration for `startup-seconds` at `startup-speed` - **Cruise**: main speed via `speed` (blocks per tick) - **Approach**: slower final segment inside `approach-distance` at `approach-speed` - **Smooth landing**: eased descent into the delivery zone (not an instant snap) - **Pre-landing safety check**: landing spot is recomputed once before touchdown so the drone does not hover in unsafe air - Virtual progress continues when chunks are unloaded; the drone reappears at the correct position when the chunk loads again - Admin coordinate sends can **preload** the destination chunk before arrival - **Cross-dimension flight**: arc path between worlds (Overworld ↔ Nether ↔ End) ### 🪂 Elytra & airborne follow (player deliveries) - **Elytra follow** (`follow-gliding-player`): while the receiver glides, the drone tracks them in the air; when they land, the target is **relocated once** and the drone lands there - **Airborne follow** (`follow-airborne-player-before-landing`): before landing, if the receiver is **significantly** in the air (e.g. long fall, not a normal jump), the drone follows until they touch the ground, **relocates once**, then lands — controlled by `airborne-follow-min-height` (default `5` blocks above solid ground) ### 📦 Package & inventory - Compose GUI (9–54 slots, multiple of 9) — close to send - Receiver opens the package after landing (right-click drone) - Preview incoming drones read-only (`/drone preview `) with item and animal summary - Despawn timer starts **after** landing (`despawn-time-minutes`) - Despawn modes: `DELETE` (remove contents) or `COLLECT` (return unopened items to sender) - **Collection animation** when the receiver picks up the drone (`collection-animation.enabled`) ### 🎨 Hologram & boss bar - Hologram above landed drones: recipient name + despawn countdown (`hologram.*`) - Boss bar for the receiver: distance and ETA (`bossbar.*`) ### ✨ Particles & sound - Configurable particle trail (including `DUST:R,G,B:SIZE`) - Flight sound while airborne (`flight-sound`) - Receiver beacon particles after landing ### 📍 Locate landed drones - `/drone locate` — particle trail toward your nearest **landed** drone in the current world (`locate-particles.*`, permission `drone.locate`) ### 🚫 Receive toggle, decline & cancel - Toggle whether you accept drones (`/drone toggle, GUI`) - Decline all incoming deliveries — items returned to senders (`/drone decline`) - Cancel your own outgoing drones (`/drone cancel`) - Clickable chat links for cancel and preview ### 🔢 Limits & worlds - Max active outgoing drones per sender (`max-active-per-sender`) - Blocked worlds list (`blocked-worlds`) ### ⚙️ Feature toggles - `players-enabled` — allow/disable player-to-player deliveries (GUI + commands) - `sockets-enabled` — allow/disable socket system ### ⛔ Player blacklist - Block specific players from sending **direct** deliveries to you - Commands and GUI (`/drone blacklist …`) ### 🏗 Delivery sockets - Place personal delivery points (`/drone socket place `) - Send to any socket by global name (`/drone socket send `) - Trust list: trusted players may pick up socket deliveries - Per-socket blacklist for blocked senders - Rename, relocate, remove; management GUI (`/drone socket manage`) - Exact landing on socket coordinates - **Container integration**: auto-unload package into hoppers/chests below the socket (`container-integration.*`) - Pending returns if the socket owner is unreachable (`socket-pending-returns.yml`) ### 🐾 Animal transport - Optional leashed-animal delivery (`carry-leashed-animals`) - Send-mode GUI: animals only vs items - Animals removed on send, respawned at delivery; invulnerable in transit - Limits via `max-leashed-animals-per-drone` ### 🔔 Discord webhooks - Optional notifications: sent, delivered, declined/cancelled, expired - Embeds with items/animals (`discord.*` in `config.yml`) ### 🖥 GUIs (`gui.yml`) - Main menu: send, preview, socket manage, toggle, decline, blacklist - Player & socket target selection - Socket edit: rename (sign UI), relocate, trust, blacklist, delete - Blacklist add/remove player pickers - Send-mode inventory (animals vs items) - Live reload via `/drone reload` (no restart) ### 💾 Persistence & safety - `players.yml` — receive toggle - `blacklists.yml` — player blacklists - `sockets.yml` — sockets, trust, socket blacklists - `socket-pending-returns.yml` — stranded socket deliveries - `drones.yml` — active in-flight/landed drones (survives restarts where applicable) - Server restart: returns items/animals to senders, cleans orphaned entities - Receiver offline / dimension change: outgoing drone cancelled, items returned - Flying drone armor stand cannot be manipulated ### ⚡ Performance - `PerformanceOptimizer`: throttling when many drones are active - Distance-culled particles and rate-limited boss bar / hologram updates - Chunk preload and flight path math cached per drone ### 🌐 Languages - Messages in `plugins/AdvancedDeliveryDrones/languages/` (not in `config.yml`) - Select locale via `language:` in `config.yml` (`de_DE`, `en_EN`, `es_ES`, `fr_FR`, `ru_RU`, `zh_CN`) - MiniMessage formatting; reload with `/drone reload` - Landing notification shows **distance to the drone** in metres (``), not delivery radius --- ## 🎮 Commands Root command: **`/drone`** (players only — opens the main GUI when run without arguments). ### 📤 Sending & receiving | Command | Description | Permission | |:---|:---|:---| | `/drone send ` | Open compose flow and send to a player | `drone.send.players` | | `/drone cancel` | Cancel all your outgoing drones | `drone.cancel` | | `/drone preview ` | Preview an incoming drone (read-only) | `drone.preview` | | `/drone toggle` | Enable/disable receiving drones | `drone.toggle` | | `/drone decline` | Decline all incoming drones | `drone.decline` | | `/drone locate` | Particle trail to nearest landed drone (this world) | `drone.locate` | ### ⛔ Player blacklist | Command | Description | Permission | |:---|:---|:---| | `/drone blacklist` | Open blacklist GUI | `drone.blacklist` | | `/drone blacklist player add [player]` | Block a player (GUI if name omitted) | `drone.blacklist.player.add` | | `/drone blacklist player remove [player]` | Unblock a player | `drone.blacklist.player.remove` | | `/drone blacklist player list` | List blocked players | `drone.blacklist.player.list` | ### 🏗 Sockets | Command | Description | Permission | |:---|:---|:---| | `/drone socket place ` | Place a socket at your location | `drone.socket.place` | | `/drone socket remove ` | Remove your socket | `drone.socket.remove` | | `/drone socket list` | List your sockets | `drone.socket.list` | | `/drone socket send ` | Send to a socket (global name) | `drone.socket.send` | | `/drone socket manage` | Socket management GUI | `drone.socket.manage` | | `/drone socket rename ` | Rename a socket | `drone.socket.rename` | | `/drone socket trust ` | Allow pickup on your socket | `drone.socket.trust` | | `/drone socket untrust ` | Revoke trust | `drone.socket.untrust` | | `/drone socket blacklist add [player]` | Block sender for a socket | `drone.socket.blacklist` | | `/drone socket blacklist remove [player]` | Unblock sender | `drone.socket.blacklist` | | `/drone socket blacklist list ` | List socket blacklist | `drone.socket.blacklist` | ### 🛠 Admin | Command | Description | Permission | |:---|:---|:---| | `/drone admin send [world]` | Send to coordinates (admin as receiver) | `drone.admin.send` | | `/drone list` | List active drones + teleport links | `drone.admin.list` | | `/drone reload` | Reload `config.yml`, `gui.yml`, and language files | `drone.admin.reload` | Parent permissions (`drone.send`, `drone.use`, `drone.socket`, `drone.admin`, `drone.blacklist`) grant their children — see `plugin.yml`. --- ## 🔐 Permissions | Permission | Description | Default | |:---|:---|:---| | `drone.send` | Send and cancel drones (parent) | `true` | | `drone.send.players` | Send to players | `true` | | `drone.cancel` | Cancel outgoing drones | `true` | | `drone.use` | Preview, toggle, decline, blacklist (parent) | `true` | | `drone.preview` | Preview incoming drones | `true` | | `drone.toggle` | Toggle receiving drones | `true` | | `drone.decline` | Decline incoming drones | `true` | | `drone.locate` | Locate landed drones | `true` | | `drone.blacklist` | Blacklist management (parent) | `true` | | `drone.blacklist.player.*` | Add / remove / list player blacklist | `true` | | `drone.socket` | All socket commands (parent) | `true` | | `drone.socket.*` | Individual socket subcommands | `true` | | `drone.admin` | Admin commands (parent) | OP | | `drone.admin.send` | Admin coordinate send | OP | | `drone.admin.list` | List active drones | OP | | `drone.admin.reload` | Reload configs | OP | --- ## ⚙️ Configuration | File | Purpose | |:---|:---| | `config.yml` | Flight, particles, sounds, hologram, boss bar, Discord, feature toggles, follow settings | | `gui.yml` | Menu layouts, items, titles | | `languages/*.yml` | All player-facing messages (MiniMessage) | | `players.yml` | Per-player receive toggle (auto-generated) | | `blacklists.yml` | Player blacklists (auto-generated) | | `sockets.yml` | Sockets, trust, socket blacklists (auto-generated) | | `socket-pending-returns.yml` | Pending socket returns (auto-generated) | | `drones.yml` | Active drones (auto-generated) |

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AdvancedDeliveryDrones

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