Runtime requirements

• CustomItemsLib 1.4.0 is required.
• Vault and an economy provider are required for the maintained, tested setup.
• BagOfGold is optional and can provide the physical-currency economy through Vault.
• Reserve support is retained from the original project but was not runtime-tested for this release.

MobHunting 8.8.0

MobHunting 8.8.0 improves runtime stability and maintenance while preserving the existing reward and integration model.

Highlights

• Replaces retained Bukkit entities in grinding history with immutable kill snapshots.
• Bounds and synchronizes grinding history, removes expired entries and avoids empty-history division.
• Uses squared-distance checks for recent farm kills without retaining worlds or entities.
• Rotates config.yml backups safely and limits retention through general.backup_count.
• Adds metrics.bstats_enabled and no longer delays server startup when bStats is disabled.
• Handles translation lookup safely before the selected language has finished loading.
• Includes the MobHunting 8.7.2 fix for projectiles without an available shooter.

New configuration

• general.backup_count: maximum rotating configuration backups, default 10, bounded from 1 to 100.
• grinding.history_limit: maximum recent kill snapshots, default 5000, bounded from 100 to 100000.
• metrics.bstats_enabled: plugin-level anonymous metrics switch, default true.

Existing configurations receive these keys through the normal configuration update process.

Compatibility

• Java 21.
• Paper 1.21.11 is the current validation target.
• CustomItemsLib 1.4.0 is required.
• BagOfGold 4.8.0 is the companion physical-currency release.

Validation

• Automated tests cover bounded and concurrent grinding history, expiration, backup rotation, legacy backup recovery, early translation lookup, metrics selection and projectile attribution.
• Runtime validation passed on Paper 1.21.11 with CustomItemsLib 1.4.0 and BagOfGold 4.8.0.
• Seventy-six recorded kills exercised normal rewards and recovery after speed grinding.
• Speed grinding stopped rewards at the configured ten-kill threshold.
• Area grinding applied progressive multipliers from 0.9 after the warning threshold.
• Repeated restarts rotated ten configuration backups and completed without MobHunting exceptions.