ReplenishPlusPlus v7.0.1 - "Rebuilt From the Build Up"

Release Date: 2026-10-05

A big maintenance release rather than a feature drop: the build system moved from Maven to Gradle, the update checker learned to read Modrinth first, dev mode's growth feature was redesigned around events, and Teleport Pads got a hardening pass that closes every hole found in a full adversarial audit. The harvest pipeline itself behaves the same as 7.0.0 for players; if you never touch pads or dev mode, this is a drop-in jar swap.

⚠️ Before You Upgrade

• Changed behavior: update checks now query Modrinth first and only fall back to GitHub. In dev mode, instant growth now only affects crops a dev player places themselves, and the inventory clear no longer runs while you're dead or spectating. Placing a pad on a spot that already holds one is now refused with a message instead of misbehaving.

🎵 What's New

• Modrinth update checks: the startup check now asks Modrinth for the newest release matching your exact Minecraft version (or anything on the same 26.3 line, so a 26.3.2 server still matches versions tagged just 26.3). If Modrinth is unreachable it quietly falls back to GitHub releases, and in-game download links point at the Modrinth page of the version it found.
• Dev-mode instant growth, redesigned (work in progress, ops only): crops a dev player places pop in fully grown, and any crop that vanilla grows within 12 blocks of a dev player snaps to max age the moment it grows. Farmer-villager farms far away stay vanilla until a dev player walks near, which is the honest tradeoff for the old scanner being removed.
• Dev-mode no-trample: a new seventh dev toggle. Farmland can't be trampled back to dirt while dev is on, so sprint-jumping your own farm and mobs wandering through it stop punching crops out of the ground. Other players' trampling stays vanilla.
• Safer pad arrivals: warping now checks the two blocks above the destination pad and refuses with a clear message if your feet or head would land inside lava, fire, sweet berry bush, a wither rose, or a low ceiling. Destinations in unloaded chunks teleport straight through instead of the old phantom-air read, which could wipe a perfectly good link.
• Honest pad placement: putting a pad where one already exists is refused with "There's already a pad here". If a place fails for any reason, the stuck end-portal-frame block is removed and your pad item is refunded, instead of the old behavior that sometimes said "Pad placed" and lied.
• Optional nightly builds: CI can now publish a rolling nightly pre-release with commit changelog, SHA-256/512 hashes, and a dependency table. Off by default; flip releaseDevBuilds=true in gradle.properties if you want it.

⚡ Performance

• Re-benchmarked honestly: one player farming flat-out (20 crops/sec, dev mode on) costs about 2% of one server thread on a default JVM launch: 1.98% measured over a 5-minute spark capture on Paper 26.3-151, Ryzen 5 5600, 2 GB heap, TPS pinned at 20.00 with 0.92ms median MSPT. The full capture is committed at benchmark/default-jvm.sparkprofile. The old 0.16% headline was a tuned-JVM best case that most servers will never see; the new BENCHMARK.md explains the per-boot spread and quotes the number real servers get. Scaling is linear in flat-out farmers: roughly 20% of a thread at 10, ~50% at 25, ~100% at 50.
• Growth scanning eliminated: the old periodic block scan (measured at 1.02% of the server thread on dense auto-farms) is gone entirely; growth is now pure events (BlockPlaceEvent + BlockGrowEvent), and the dev tick task does nothing but the once-per-second inventory scan.
• Pad saves debounced and atomic: GUI-click bursts write pads.yml at most once per tick through a temp file plus atomic move, and shutdown force-writes any pending save so nothing is lost. Previously every click hit the disk.
• Queue memo widened: the chunk-loaded cache serving replant decisions went from 16 to 64 slots, so large multi-chunk farms stop evicting entries every replant.
• Cocoa replant check narrowed: the queue now re-validates the specific facing it's about to plant against its own jungle log, so a log broken between decide and replant can no longer produce a popping crop (also closes a cocoa-minting dupe).

🛠️ Fixes & Tweaks

• Update check hardening: response bodies are capped at 2 MiB, JSON is parsed structure-aware (text that merely looks like a version inside other fields can never win), and every candidate version string must match a safe character set before it can reach a click URL or chat, closing a Modrinth-side injection vector. Failed checks complete as failed instead of hanging as pending, shutdown can't fork a second HTTP chain, and an unparseable local version now logs "status unknown" instead of a misleading verdict.
• Dev-mode harvest counter is now permission-gated: only the console and players actually in dev mode can start, stop, or toggle the tracking window; a stranger typing /spark profiler commands does nothing. Stopping always works, even after harvest-counter was switched off and reloaded, and re-running start mid-window no longer extends a timed window. The --timeout 60 flag form works, absurd timeout values clamp instead of crashing, and command-blocker plugins cancelling /spark can't puppet the counter.
• Dev-mode growth edge cases: enabling dev near the bedrock floor or build limit no longer throws (the sweep clamps to world height and only touches loaded chunks), and any inventory-clear pass that actually deleted something now invalidates the seed cache, so the next break can't read a stale seed slot.
• Pad persistence: a corrupted pads.yml now logs a loud warning instead of silently loading zero pads and overwriting your data on the next change, and a leftover pads.yml.tmp from an interrupted save is swept at startup.
• Pad orphan self-heal: when a chunk loads, registered pads whose frame block was destroyed externally (like by /setblock or a world edit) are removed in one batched pass, links pointing at them are cleared, and their slot in the 56-per-player cap is freed. Persistent ghost display entities are still wiped on every chunk sync.
• Pad rename safety: a rename prompt that outlived its pad (you closed the menu, the pad got picked up, someone else placed a new one there) can no longer rename the wrong pad; ownership is re-checked at apply time.
• Pad menu spam: menu clicks are throttled to one action per player per second, so GUI spam can't churn the registry or respawn icon displays, and picking a pad up cancels any pending rename prompt.
• Pad world names: world names containing semicolons now round-trip through pads.yml correctly.
• /rpp toggle global: the config.yml write is atomic (temp file plus move), and if it fails you get an explicit "couldn't be written" message plus a severe log instead of the old silent swallow that reset your choice on restart.
• /rpp reload: when the file was broken and previous settings stayed live, the output now says "Nothing was applied" instead of claiming your changes went live.
• Backward compatibility: /rpp and /replenish aliases still work, all 7.0.0 config and pads files load unchanged, and custom edits to en_us.yml are kept (missing or broken keys silently fall back to the built-in English text).

📚 Docs

• BENCHMARK.md: rewritten from scratch: honest ~2% headline, a per-slice breakdown of where the cost goes, player-count scaling, and a capture-conditions section explaining why JVM launch flags swing the reading between 0.16% and 2%.
• benchmark/default-jvm.sparkprofile: the offline spark profile of the benchmark run, committed so anyone can verify the numbers.
• DEV_MODE.md: updated for the event-driven growth redesign, no-trample, the gated harvest counter, and the packaged testing world (devmode/Server Testing.7z, farm at -75 5 -91) that reproduces the benchmark.
• AGENTS.md: rewritten for the Gradle build, Modrinth checking, the removal of the crop-drop fallback, and a new Conventional Commits rule.
• README.md: Modrinth listed as the recommended install source, a "coming from Replenish 6.x?" warning, and the checkUpdates comment now describes both sources.
• THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md: Gson (Apache 2.0) added for the Modrinth JSON parsing.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Mitra-88/ReplenishPlusPlus/compare/7.0.0...7.0.1