MyDog has been rebuilt for Minecraft 26.3, with many new features.

Before updating: this version needs Java 25. Your config.yml, dogs.yml and messages are upgraded automatically, and backups are saved next to them (e.g. config.yml.v1.bak).

Modern wolves

• Dogs show their breed and personality in /mydog stats, and keep them (and their collar color) when revived.
• Vanilla wolf armor support: optionally unbreakable, with warnings when it's wearing thin or breaks.
• Armor proficiency: higher-level dogs wear out their armor slower.
• Health is now based on tamed wolves' 40 health (level 10 gets 72 by default).

Treats

• Dog treats change a dog's breed or personality, with expensive recipes, or admin-only via /mydog givetreat.
• Dogs from before breeds existed get one free pick (/mydog breed, /mydog personality).
• Personalities (how a dog sounds) need Paper. On Spigot, everything else works.
• Stat treats permanently raise health, damage or speed, up to a configurable cap.

Levels and combat

• Potion effects per level, and separate damage against players per level.
• A "scaled" level mode as an alternative to the level table.
• Experience for all newer mobs, plus a default for unlisted ones.
• Choose which mobs attack-mode dogs go after. Mobs from other plugins are left alone.
• /mydog calm stops your dogs fighting.
• Protect dogs from other players, or from all damage.
• Fixed attack-mode dogs dying of entity cramming.

Owners and convenience

• Share dogs with friends (/mydog share), and admins can manage anyone's dogs.
• Right-click someone else's dog to see whose it is, and use an <owner> placeholder in nametags.
• /mydog store and /mydog summon.
• Dogs eat from their owner's inventory when hurt.
• One safer teleport method, and leashed dogs stay put.

For server owners

• All messages are in messages.yml, in MiniMessage. Old & codes are converted.
• New settings are added to your config automatically.
• New permissions: mydog.calm, mydog.store, mydog.share, mydog.breed, mydog.givetreat, mydog.admin.others, mydog.harm.others, mydog.comehere.nocooldown.

For developers

A public API in Bukkit's ServicesManager, with events. Available on JitPack as com.github.HeroGamers.MyDog:mydog-api:v0.3.1.

Full changelog: https://github.com/HeroGamers/MyDog/compare/v0.2.2...v0.3.1