NotQuests

This release adds FancyNPCs support and a cow-milking objective, makes saving quest data a lot safer, brings every plugin integration up to its latest version, and fixes a long list of gameplay bugs.

✨ New features

• FancyNPCs support: FancyNPCs is now supported, alongside Citizens and armor stands.
• New MilkCow objective. Counts cows milked (detected by right-clicking a cow with an empty bucket), mirroring the Shear Sheep objective with an optional cancel flag.

🛡️ Reliability & data safety

• No more lost quest progress on a failed save. Player data is now saved inside a single database transaction, so a mid-save failure (full disk, lock timeout, dropped connection) rolls back cleanly instead of deleting data it cannot re-write.
• Thread-safety fixes around the online-player registry, a player's completed/failed/pending quest lists, quest tags (setting a tag to nothing now removes it), and conversation chat history - preventing rare crashes and data corruption.
• Visual effects on the main thread. Armor-stand quest-giver particles and the quest/objective completion title + sound now always run on the main thread, where Paper requires them.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Non-OP players can use /notquests again. Its notquests.use permission (default on) was never registered on Paper, so non-operators got "Unknown command". The admin commands (/nqa, /qa) still require operator / notquests.admin.
• Tab-completing a mob/entity argument (for KillMobs, SpawnMob, …) no longer throws an error and shows suggestions again.
• Killing an EcoMob now counts towards a matching KillMobs objective (the kill was never detected before).
• "Reach job level" objectives now track your real Jobs level, including admin changes like /jobs level add, and complete once you reach the target level.
• Attaching a quest to an armor stand works again - the "add" item did nothing before. Right-click the armor stand with it.
• Quest previews from armor stand / FancyNPCs quest givers no longer error out, and the NPC quest-list GUI shows its proper title instead of "Language string not found".

🔌 Integration updates

Every supported plugin integration is now on its latest version (old → new):

• Citizens 2.0.30 → 2.0.42 (escort-NPC following moved to the new Citizens API)
• PlaceholderAPI 2.11.5 → 2.12.2
• MythicMobs 5.3.0 → 5.12.1
• EliteMobs 9.1.9 → 10.4.0
• WorldEdit 7.3.0 → 7.4.3
• LuckPerms 5.4 → 5.5
• Towny 0.98.4.4 → 0.103.0.0
• Jobs Reborn 4.17.2 → 5.2.6.5
• Floodgate 2.2.2 → 2.2.5
• eco 6.38.3 → 7.6.3
• EcoBosses 8.78.0 → EcoMobs 11.7.0 (the developer renamed EcoBosses to EcoMobs; existing eco-mob spawn actions keep working)
• Vault (1.7.1) and Slimefun (RC-37) were already current.

Nothing changes in how you use these - the plugin installed on your server is still what runs.

🧩 Dependency upgrades

• Adventure 4.18.0 → 4.26.1 (kept on the 4.x line to match Paper 26)
• commons-io 2.11.0 → 2.22.0
• PacketEvents 2.12.0 → 2.12.2
• geantyref 1.3.13 → 1.3.16
• Configurate 4.1.2 → 4.2.0
• Lombok 1.18.44 → 1.18.46
• SQLite 3.53.1.0 → 3.53.2.0
• Paper dev bundle build 64 → 69
• Shadow 9.4.1 → 9.4.2
• Gradle 9.0.0 → 9.5.1

🗑️ Removed

• UltimateJobs - no longer maintained; its integration and "reach job level" objective were removed. Jobs Reborn still covers job objectives.
• Leftover ZNPCs and BetonQuest references that were no longer used.

🛠️ Under the hood

• More reliable builds. Every plugin integration is bundled with the project as a local file instead of being downloaded from a third-party repository at build time, so a relocated/offline repo can no longer break a build.

✅ Compatibility

Built for Paper 26.1.2 and Java 25.