Anima 1.0 — Initial release

The first public release of Anima, the free, packet-based NPC platform for Paper/Spigot. Spawn NPCs, style them, give them behaviour, and build on top — with no lag and no config files.

★ What's in 1.0

• Packet-based NPC engine — 100% packets, no real entities; thousands of NPCs at near-zero tick cost.
• Composable traits — an NPC is a carrier onto which you stack traits (look, path, merchant, dialogue…), from the core or from addons.
• Per-player appearance — per-viewer skin, name, hologram lines and pose on the same NPC.
• 100% in-game editor — create and configure everything through a GUI; no config files for NPC setup.
• Actions & conditions — attach behaviours (on click, on approach…) built from composable conditions.
• Virtual interaction layer — real hitboxes, projectile raycasts and an NpcDamageEvent so combat/spell addons can hit NPCs.
• Pluggable storage — JSON (default), SQLite and MySQL, with an open provider SPI and automatic migration.
• Developer API — a clean, versioned anima-api to register traits, actions, conditions and bridges.
• PacketEvents-driven — validated on Minecraft 1.20.2 → 26.x; PacketEvents is bundled (relocated), nothing extra to install.

★ Commands

• /anima tools · create [name] · list · remove · hide · action add|list|clear
• Alias /an · permission anima.admin

★ Compatibility

• Paper / Spigot, Minecraft 1.20.2 → 26.x, Java 17+

Thanks for trying Anima.