• Fixed: POTION_EFFECT events no longer strip potion effects from players outside the event world/scope when the event ends.
• Fixed: ACID_RAIN only forces and restores rain in worlds enabled in world-settings and matching event scope.
• Fixed: THE_MIST no longer removes blindness from players outside the event audience when the event ends.

• Fixed: %worldevents_active% and related placeholders no longer show raw MiniMessage tags in scoreboards/TAB.
• Added: %worldevents_active_plain% for unformatted active event names.
• Fixed: Event announcements, countdown warnings, and pre-start previews render gradient/legacy display names correctly.
• Fixed: Meteor shower crater blocks (obsidian/magma) now respect WorldGuard, GriefPrevention, Towny, and Lands build protection.

• Fixed: Potion effects and The Mist no longer apply in worlds disabled in world-settings (e.g. lobby hubs).
• Fixed: Joining or entering an enabled world mid-event now applies active player effects correctly.
• Fixed: Leaving an enabled world strips WorldEvents potion effects instead of keeping them in other worlds.
• Fixed: Low Gravity respects world-settings and syncs on world change like other player effects.

• Fixed: End-of-event reward-all rewards no longer go to players in worlds where events are disabled in world-settings.
• Fixed: Participant rewards also respect enabled worlds and event scope (including localized radius).

• Fixed: Countdown warning messages now respect disabled worlds, event world conditions, player notification preferences, and localized radius.

• Added: Localized events with optional random or fixed centers and radius limits.
• Added: Localized placeholders for announcements: %x%, %y%, %z%, %world%, and %radius%.
• Changed: Boss bars, sounds, player effects, block effects, mob effects, treasure hunts, and mob waves now respect localized event radius.
• Added: Config examples for the new localized event setup.

• Added: Event descriptions can now be configured with description: in event YAML.
• Added: Start announcements now support %description% and <description> placeholders.
• Changed: Event descriptions automatically appear under start announcements when no description placeholder is used.
• Added: Default Blood Moon descriptions so players better understand what the event does.

v1.8.10

• Fixed: BossBar symbol now preserves emojis and complex Unicode when boss-bar.use-simple-symbols is disabled.
• Changed: Simple ASCII symbol fallback is now only applied when boss-bar.use-simple-symbols is enabled.

• Added: Support for Minecraft/Paper 26.1.x.
• Changed: Compatibility range is now 1.20.6 - 26.1.x.
• Fixed: Updated max health attributes to use the modern max_health key with legacy fallback.

• Fixed: Hidden events no longer appear in boss bars.
• Fixed: Hidden events no longer trigger countdown warning broadcasts.
• Changed: Release metadata updated for v1.8.8.

• Fixed Treasure Hunt loot.

Fixes

• Fixed bug where event effects stayed on players after reconnecting.
• Fixed global boss bar toggle being ignored in config.yml

• Fixed player inventory being affected by triple loot.
• Fixed oversized stacked drops during loot modifiers.

• Added optional pre-event announcements.
• Fixed scheduler cleanup on reload/stop.

• New: Added MythicMobs support in waves via mythic: prefix.
• Fix: Optimized reward chance logic for 100% execution.
• Core: Internal API improvements and stability fixes.

• Improved world name matching (case-insensitive).
• Added atomic saving to prevent file corruption.
• Fixed boss bar visibility issues.
• Improved thread safety for Folia support.
• Fixed a loot generation bug.

Bug Fixes & Improvements:

• Boss Bar Fix: Fixed a bug where Boss Bars would randomly disappear or flicker if other plugins were also using them.
• Performance: Fixed a background memory leak with Meteor particles when an event was stopped early.
• Clean Console: Replaced the massive wall of console spam when potion events ended with a single, clean summary message.
• AutoSmelt: Added 1.20+ smelting support for Bamboo to Charcoal and Bamboo Blocks to Bamboo Mosaic.
• Config: Added themed meteor-materials to the default Meteor Shower preset configurations.

Highlights:

• MythicMobs Support: Spawn custom MythicMobs natively in any event wave.
• New Default Events: Added blood-moon and ancient-invasion presets.
• Fixes: Resolved startup class loading and rendering issues.

WorldEvents v1.7.34

• Fixed: Resolved an issue where operators on hybrid servers were failing the permission check for /wevent commands. Operators will now correctly bypass permission checks and default to authorized for all commands.