AcidIsland

🎁 What's new

AcidIsland 1.21.0 introduces a Cherry Grove Sanctuary starter island blueprint, giving new players a beautiful blossom-themed start. This release also brings the long-overdue migration from legacy Bukkit color codes to Adventure MiniMessage format, aligning with BentoBox 3.12.0's modern text handling, fixes a crash when EssentialsX fails to load, and bumps the required BentoBox API to 3.14.0.

✨ Highlights

🌸 Cherry Grove Sanctuary Starter Island

• A new starter island blueprint themed around the Cherry Grove biome is now included out of the box
• Adds visual variety for players starting a new island on servers running Minecraft 1.21+

🔡 🔺 MiniMessage Locale Migration [PR #167]

• All 24 locale files have been converted from legacy & color codes to MiniMessage tags (e.g. &c → <red>, &1 → <dark_blue>)
• Several pre-existing locale bugs were fixed during migration: broken full-width color codes in ja.yml, untranslated [name] placeholders in vi.yml, hr.yml, and tr.yml, a missing sign line in pl.yml, and reordered lines in tr.yml
• Requires BentoBox 3.12.0 or later (included in the API 3.14.0 requirement below)

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed a NullPointerException in the Essentials god mode check when EssentialsX fails to load at startup

⚙️ Compatibility

✔️ BentoBox API 3.14.0 ✔️ Minecraft 1.21.x (Paper/Purpur) ✔️ Java 21

🔺 Updating — important notes

🔺 BentoBox 3.14.0 required. This release raises the minimum BentoBox API version to 3.14.0. Ensure your BentoBox is up to date before updating AcidIsland.

🔡 Locale files have been regenerated. If you have customised locale files, compare them against the new files in plugins/BentoBox/addons/AcidIsland/locales/. The old & color codes are no longer valid — any custom entries still using them will render as plain text.

📥 How to update

1. Stop the server
2. Back up your plugins/BentoBox/ folder
3. Ensure BentoBox 3.14.0+ is installed
4. Drop the new AcidIsland-1.21.0.jar into your addons folder and remove the old one
5. To get Cherry Grove Sanctuary you'll need to remove the BentoBox/addons/AcidIsland/blueprints folder so they can regenerate. If you have customized islands in there then move them out and then put them back.
6. To obtain the latest locale files, move or delete BentoBox/locales/AcidIsland as well
7. Start the server — updated locale files and blueprints will be extracted automatically
8. (Optional) Review any customized locale files and convert remaining & codes to MiniMessage

Legend

• 🔡 locale files may need to be regenerated or updated
• ⚙️ config options have been removed, renamed, or added
• 🔺 special attention needed

What's Changed

• 🔺 Add Cherry Grove Sanctuary starter island blueprint by @tastybento in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/AcidIsland/develop
• 🔡 Migrate locale files from legacy color codes to MiniMessage format by @tastybento in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/AcidIsland/pull/167
• Fix NPE in Essentials god mode check when EssentialsX fails to load by @tastybento in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/AcidIsland/develop
• 🔺 Update addon.yml for BentoBox API version 3.14.0 by @tastybento in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/AcidIsland/develop
• Add Modrinth publish GitHub Actions workflow by @tastybento in https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/AcidIsland/develop

Full Changelog: https://github.com/BentoBoxWorld/AcidIsland/compare/1.20.1...1.21.0