If you don't have customizations in these files, it is highly recommended that you delete them and allow them to regenerate
ChatAnnouncer, Scheduler, Events, MOTD, ChatMenu, Sidebar, ChatFlex, Tab, AFK, GUI

Punishments
- Ban, IP Ban, Mute, Temp Mute, Temp Ban, UnBan, UnMute, and Kick
- Player History shows all punishment history
- GUI helps make Punishments easier with new /mod command
- Punishment events for API users

Custom Fonts
- Allow players to use custom fonts in chat
- Custom fonts only show in the in-game chat and won't show in Discord or the console

Particle Engine! (BETA)
- Outlines Slime Chunks when right clicking with a slime ball
- Outlines WorldGuard & GriefPrevention regions when right clicking with a stick
- Coming Soon: Apply particle effects to players

Info Placeholders
- Global server info placeholders (server name, discord, shop link, etc..)
- Added an insane amount of general placeholders like: blocks broken, player health, coords, etc...

Sidebar
- Fixed /sidebar not hiding the sidebar
- Blank line creation is now more random
- Uses new Epic Core placeholders for live updates (like coords)
- Fixed issue with reloading config not working

Other New Features & Tweaks
- Added ability to /sit and on stairs
- Beta: New Custom Text system with markdown and custom font support that's openable as a book (can also be given). Try out the sample Stats file!
- Vanish now silences chests, barrels, ender chests, trapped chests, & shulkers when you're invisible
- Added avatar support to event listener for Join messages (enabled by default)
- Added decoration preview in Chat Menu
- Scheduler, Events, and MOTD now use Placeholders
- Flex now fires and event for people using our API in other plugins like DiscordSRV
- Added an insane amount of Flex items (regenerate file)
- Added faux column system in Tab (beta)
- Added [command](/links) markdown support for events
- Reloading is more noticeable in the console
- @mentions now work for username and nickname matching
- Added EpicCoreBroadcastEvent for broadcast messages
- Added broadcastChannel option to channels to allow sending chat messages to an additional channel
- Added /eep as an alias for /sleep
- Added new drop in GUI system
- Added :skull: as emoji in Chat config by default

Other Fixes
- Fixed Status Announcer pack
- Fixed Minigame Maker error on startup
- A fix for Players who vote for a sleep vote that passes will now be rested preventing phantoms from spawning
- Fixed Death messages to now show the name of the entity that kills you instead of Herobrine
- Fixed issue prevention Chat Menu from working with reload command
- Fix API events with colored messages to include a way to get messages in plain text
- Fixed /flex not reloading
- Fixed an issue with manual /afk not working. You may want to re-generate this file.
- Fixed /me format in chat and console
- Fixed Custom GUIs with variables to now show tab complete properly
- Fix to make it easier to read Chat Announcer items in GUI
- Fixed issue with mixing color codes w/ gradient codes
- Fixed YAML handler incorrectly loading some files
- Fixed /giveaway to where it now works
- Fixed issue with GIveaway module being reset on restarts
- Fixed a few typos
- Fixed deepslate ore not counting in ore totals
- Fixed /chat colors from showing in the chat every time
- Fixed some errors when Geyser players join
- Fixed formatting error when using multiple colors & gradients in the same line
- Fixed Announcer using the incorrect prefix
- Fixed issue when getting Ping (it works now)
- Removed Flex's dependency on 3rd party placeholders
- Moved TPA to separate module (teleportRequests)
- Fixed Weather Control making it impossible to rain
- Fix for Chat Bubbles being stuck by adding extra checks to remove them
- Fixed Korean language file not working properly
- Fixed Russian and Portuguese languages files from not working at all

Fixed status not showing up when it was under 14 characters

Fixed issue with /gm <mode> <player> not working.
Other player is notified now when their gamemode changes.
Made the full gamemode show up instead of "gmc", "gma", etc...
Fixed /wb not opening

New

• Added middleColor as an option for gradient perks
• Added several new API events (see wiki)

Fixes

• Fixed issue with new players joining vanished
• Fixed /tpa showing names reversed
• Fixed sidebar not pausing with /sidebar
• Optimized how colors are handled to be more efficient and faster
• Fixed /chat textcolor and /chat accent not having their proper tab completes

New Stuff

• Added /vanish
• Epic Core now works with Minigame Maker

Squashed Bugs

• Fixed Sidebar in Epic Core clashing with Minigame Maker's
• Fixed null errors with invalid sounds
• Fixed issue with /chat clear not working for everyone
• Fixed teleport manager making requests backwards
• Fixed Discord SRV from taking over chat when a player leaves all channels

Fixed music player not working for non-ops
Fixed spawn command not working in different worlds
Fixed null animation error for Tab module
Re-wrote Sidebar to work more like Tab (and is way more efficient)
Optimized player database caching even more (faster, stronger)
Excluded MOTD config from self-healing

What's New

• New support for Protocol Lib
• Animated Tab screen! Customize the header, footer, and player info or setup Tab Groups by permission (requires Protocol Lib)
• Added reload event to forcefully reload module config so you don't have to restart as much
• Korean language file is included now

Fixes

• Corrected text color listening for the wrong module
• Fixed an odd clash between Discord and offline chat messages
• Better Chat Bubble cleanup so there are no leftover floating messages.
• Stopped it from raining when config was reloaded

Added

• Chat Bubbles are here! It shows what you typed above your head
• Teleporting sounds
• /near - shows players near you or another player
• /setspawn - allows changing of spawn (even underground!)
• Created a new player manager being used in /tpoffline, /near, and /setspawn. (Please report any errors)

Fixes

• Issue that prevented player database from properly using cache
• Player cache cleans up after itself now
• Issue with some player messages not always removing text color when explicitly told to
• Remove Missing "Global.prefix" and Missing "messages.prefix" console errors
• Fixed success messages not always using the right language file
• Custom GUIs that change the navigation will no longer show stone for the home button
• Fixed improper casting error with Discord
• Fixed a null error that appeared when you removed all emojis
• /Nickname will show moderator options in the tab complete now

Major Changes

• Config files have been re-organized to be easier to use. Your old config files will be backed up before moving to thew new format.
• Added support for multiple languages: Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian
• Now permissions accept conditions! Example: (ecore.test1 OR ecore.test2) - (ecore.test1 AND ecore.test2)
• Merged Help Menu (/help) into Custom GUI
• Added /icloud & /dropbox aliases for ender chest

New Commands

• /kittycannon - shoots several non-lethal exploding cats
• /beezooka - shoots a non-lethal exploding bee
• /compass - shows the direction you are facing
• /depth - displays how above or below sea level you are
• /tree - spawn a tree where you're looking
• /bigtree - spawn a big tree where you're looking
• /me - shows what you've typed in the chat
• /enchant - allows enchanting the item you're holding with any enchant / level
• /lore - edits the lore of the item you're holding
• /getpos - shows your positioning in chat
• /rest - resets your sleep timer so phantoms don't target you
• /whois - shows you who a player is by nickname or username

Teleporting ( Migrated from Perk to Module)

• Made teleporting wayyyy safer (no more suffocating)
• /top - teleport quickly to the top of the map
• /bottom - teleport quickly to the bottom of the map
• /tpall - teleport everyone to you
• /spawn - teleport back to spawn
• /tpoffline - teleport to an offline player
• /rtp - teleport to a random part of the map

Custom GUIs

• Added placeholder, placeholder, and language conditions
• Added open/close commands
• Change the default filler items

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rare bug causing Channels to be erased
• Fixed error with player heads and variables
• Fixed issue preventing /music from working occasionally
• Fixed god mode working weirdly with .others permission

• Fixed issue with chat not working when Towny wasn't installed
• Shows "no one hears you" message if Towny or Radius Chat has 0 online members
• 6 new colors (Team Blu, Lime Light, Lemon Zest, Ginger Glow, Radiant Rose, Velvet Void)
• 6 new gradients (Lime Rose, Ginger Zest, Blu Rose, Lime Void, Rose Glow, Blu Lime, Ash Void)

Already using Epic Core and want to use the new colors? Here they are!

Solid Colors
Gradient Colors

• Added priority & chat color to formats
• Fixed issue with Vault null errors

Fixed issue with Discord chat format

Fixed issue with importing Essential users without homes
Fixed Chat Reactions not working in previous build

Updated for 1.20, fixed some typos

Please use 1.5.3 over 1.5.2 as it fixes a number of issues related to the enhanced error messages.

• Fixed null /gui error
• Custom GUI variables show in tab complete
• Fixed issue for clean install with no permissions prefix being found

Config file and GUI config errors are a little bit more friendly now. You can find more helpful errors in your server console file with config is broken.

Wiki has been updated for all of the new features: https://signality.notion.site/Epic-Core-deae9d2339b249b5aa7f0783271d1401

Homes & Economy Update:
- Staff money command /money give/take/set <player> <amount> (/econ)
- Balance /balance (/bal)
- Top balances /baltop
- Send money to a player /pay (/paypal, /cashapp, /venmo)
- Money logging to console (config)
- GUI showing all of player's homes /home
- Teleport to a public home /hwarp (/hw, /pwarp, /pw)
- Tepeport to someone's public home /hwarp #<number>
- Teleport to a home /home <name> (/h)
- Add a home /sethome <home> (/hset)
- Remove a home /removehome <home> (/hremove)
- Change display item /edithome item <home> (/hedit)
- Change display name (by permission) /edithome name <home> <name> (/hedit)
- Change category (by permission) /edithome category <home> <name> (/hedit)
- Change cost (by permission) /edithome cost <home> <number> (/hedit)
- Toggle public status (by permission) /edithome public <home> (/hedit)
- Migrate homes from another plugin /migrate <essentials/cmi> <homes>
- Counts number of private visits
- Counts number of public visits
- Teleporting to homes has cooldown

Other Updates:
- Chat Bot: Updated to include more defaults
- Help Menu: Updated to include player homes & public homes
- Scheduler: Now allows grouping of commands

Fixes:
- Sidebar: Fixed error with blank config files. Fixed lines being too long. Checking if players are online first.
- Nick Color: Once you pick a nick color it will stay even after you change your name
- Chat Tag: No longer takes over vault prefix
- Refreshed GUI defaults to align with summer colors
- %player% %playerName% and %ecore_nickname% will show the person's username if they haven't selected a nickname.
- Fixed issue with AFK spam

New Permissions:
- ecore.econ.balance.others - Get balance of other players
- ecore.econ.give - Give money to a player
- ecore.econ.set - Set a player's money
- ecore.econ.take - Take money from a player
- ecore.admin.migrate - Import data from another plugin
- ecore.home.cost.bypass - Don't get charged for teleports
- ecore.home.edit.cost
- ecore.home.edit.public
- ecore.home.edit.category
- ecore.home.edit.item
- ecore.home.edit.name
- ecore.home.edit.name.color
- ecore.home.max.1 - 100
- ecore.home.max.unlimited

• Added: /tphere
  • Permission: ecore.perk.tphere
• Added: /afkcheck

• Fixed: Vault null error
• Fixed: /chat colors

• Added left click, right click, and middle click support for GUIs

Fixes:

• /god no longer shows null
• /hat has a "no permission" error now
• Chat reactions work when using /epiccore: command prefix
• Channels that are set to autojoin will no longer spam errors about permissions

Animated Sidebar beta
Toggle on/off with /sidebar command. Must assign permission ecore.sidebar for a player to use this command.

Create your own animations with custom update delays. Supports Placeholder API.



Custom MOTD beta
Fully supports gradients and color codes. As a bonus, you can change the server's max players



Chat Reactions are Expandable!
Create brand new chat reactions. Please delete your chatReaction.yml file before loading this new version


Fireworks Command
Fire 3 fireworks above a player's head in random colors and styles. Can be executed by console command or by using /fireworks
2 new permissions:
ecore.perk.fireworks - Allows you to use the /fireworks command
ecore.perk.fireworks.other - Allows you to use the /fireworks command on other players



Fixes

• Null error for /gui open
• Chat reactions run a little more efficiently
• Made /msg show feedback when sending blank messages or to an invalid player
• /broadcast will let a player know if they don't have permission now
• Changed all ➤ symbols to ▌ (New configs only. Feel free to do a mass update this in your config if you want)
• Updated onJoin and onFirstJoin defaults to be a little more modern and helpful
  
• Fixed a bug that caused extra &s to show up when using colors
• Chat icon permissions are working properly once again
• Join message wasn't showing a player's display name but it is now
• Fixed chest_opened in new Flex perks

• /flex opens the flex GUI instead of doing nothing
• Added 27 new flexes
  • Delete guis/chatFlex.yml to re-generate the new flexes
• Added more info on /flex on the Epic Core wiki
• Added separate chatColors config for Accent Colors
• Added %ecore_afk% to show when a player is AFK or not

• Fix: Announcer pack & AFK should ignore vanished players
• Fix: Issue with AFK spam
• Fix: Weather Control being buggy
• Fix: Issues with icon placeholders

Fix for channel specific formats

What's New:

• autoJoin channels work for returning players now
• /txt will make a player rejoin a channel if they already left it
• chat.yml has options to change the message for these channel events: join/leave messages, no permission warning, and invalid channel name
  
• Re-wrote gradient system
  • Long messages will repeat the gradient colors after reaching a certain length
  • 3 way gradients are here &{#D58846,#46D55A,#D5CF46}

Fixes:

• Removed some leftover debugging messages

Custom GUIs now lets you pass variables as placeholders.

Using Variables
You can pass up to 9 variables to your GUI using placeholders. If you have a GUI named test with an alias you can send variables one of two ways:

Each variable is created as a placeholder (up to 9). One value as a string and the other as a player’s display name. If var1 isn’t a valid player then a blank display name will be returned.

You can require specific variables before a GUI will open by adding vars under the info section. Here is an example:

If you’re struggling with how to work with variables there is an example file on the Wiki and listed below. It is for a GUI with an alias of /test. It requires the first variable to not be blank and be a value player name. Use it by typing /test <playername>.

What's New?

• Option to disable colored messages in console (config.yml)
• Blank messages will no longer be sent to chat
• You can change where the home button goes on custom GUIs now
  
  Code (Text):

  # By default the home button takes you to /help
  # You can override this by added your own home command
  items:
    # Item used for the category selection
    home:
      command: "gui open test"
• New /tppos command when /tp is enabled

Fixes

• Blank messages will no longer send
• Emojis are working with gradients
• Occasional null errors with logger were fixed
• Permission based custom GUIs are working again
• Teleporting now takes you to the center block

New:

• /txt [channel] [message]
  Command to quickly message other channels without leaving the one you're in
• "textColor" option added under channels allow you to set a default text color for the channel (and disables player text color)

Fixes:

• AFK check now ignores offline players
• Channel reload wasn't loading in updated channel prefix names
• Added additional check for cancelled messages
• Gradients used with &{#000000,#000000} were uninterruptable before this update
• Database cleanup for unjoin-able (removed) channels
• Players will auto-join the last channel they used when they quit
• Player names will no longer be blank if they haven't set a nick

New:

• /txt [channel] [message]
  Command to quickly message other channels without leaving the one you're in
• "textColor" option added under channels allow you to set a default text color for the channel (and disables player text color)

Fixes:

• AFK check now ignores offline players
• Channel reload wasn't loading in updated channel prefix names
• Added additional check for cancelled messages
• Gradients used with &{#000000,#000000} were uninterruptable before this update
• Database cleanup for unjoin-able (removed) channels
• Players will auto-join the last channel they used when they quit

Fixed bug with nickname being blank

Added command spy to social spy
There was a null error on AFK kick
Sleep & weather would sometimes report 0 votes were needed
Fixed typo

Fixed:

• Death message weren't working
• Console was showing double text
• Text color wasn't showing

Fixed issues with /afk pulling the wrong config value (null error)
Fixed chat not showing up in console
Fixed advanced chat formats and they are now working (sorry!)

• Brand new chat format lets you customize formats by permission. Including multiple hover events! (See code block below)
• Re-wrote how some modules are handled. This saves resources when you disable modules. Overall helps server performance.

AFK Manager
- Added /afk to toggle AFK status
- New settings doc in modules/afk.yml
- Options to disable mob damage and nearby spawns
- Permission ecore.afk.kick.bypass will prevent you from being kicked when AFK
- Use the Action Object to chain commands when AFK starts or ends

Weather & Rain voting now check AFK status

Added Emojis. This lets you replace :text: in chat with special characters. You can find this in chat.yml
Fixed a bug with chat bots not executing server commands

Fixed an issue with permission based custom GUIs causing /help to not work

Modules.yml incorrectly uses redeem instead of giveaway
Stopped cancelled messages from appearing
Added new %role% and %nickname% placeholders for Discord integration
Fixed issues with placeholders not working with 3rd party plugins
Fixed chat tag not resetting when picking that option

Fixed issue with %playerName% placeholder

Fixes
* Putting 1 single letter (like "k") in chat duplicated it
* Using 2 characters (like "XD" or "JK") completely broke the gradient
* Using 3 characters the 2nd & 3rd character used the same color
* Messages weren't showing in console

Gamemode
* Can now change game mode for other players

Music Player
* Lets players listen to any music disc
* Customizable! Add your own music discs in config
* Songs automatically loop when they are finished playing
* Shuffle mode will shuffle all songs you have permission to

Teleporting
* Added a /tp command
* Added the ability to request a teleport to another player with /tpa
* Accept with /tpaccept or reject with /tpreject
* Added a /back command

Chat Update
* Autocomplete correctly show for /chat announcer, /chat accent, etc..
* Added %playerName% to include chat icon (with accent color) and player's display name
* Added to show item in chat

Player Perks
* Added /strike (for a lightning strike)
* Added /unalive
* Added option to use /heal, gm, and fly on other players
* Fixed permissions for /heal

Misc
* All GUIs can use the same ItemObject as custom GUIs (see perkMusic.yml)

Hot Fix: Fixed bug with AUTOINCREMENT and sqlite

Content update! I added in more chat tags, icons, and colors. If you don't want to delete your old config files you can find the updated config with the new content on our Discord.

New
* Added 58 new chat icons
* Added 46 new chat tags
* Added 20 gradient text colors
* Added 20 solid text/accent colors
* Added 14 announcer packs

Fixes
* GUIs with multiple pages are working now
* MySQL support has been fixed
* Fixed removing prefix, suffix, or punctuation with gradient text colors breaking the plugin.

Fixed issue with UTF-8 characters not saving properly when updating config with custom settings

Fixed a bug that prevented plugin customization.
The internal yml updater was erasing any changes in the config files. This is now fixed.

Fixed custom GUI folders

Update to the latest version of ECRelay to fix Bungeecord / Waterfall issues https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/ecrelay.106583/

Added Social Spy

• Shows ALL chat messages from all channels including /msg command
• Permission: ecore.mod.socialspy
• Toggle: /chat socialspy
• New config options in EpicCore/modules/chat.yml

Fixes

• Bungee messages are once again being sent between servers
• Config updater now loads settings after a file is updated
• Database updater now tells you when its upgrading a table

Chat Update:
* Added /join (alias /j) and /leave (alias /l) for channels
* Added /c alias for /chat (enable in aliases.yml)
* Added message prefix for /flex, /chat reaction, /chat
* Radius chat works with Towny chats

Cooldown Update:
* Cooldown shows the fraction of the seconds remaining (Example: shows 1.96s instead of 2s)
* Make cooldowns shorter for selected permissions (configure in config.yml)
* chat.bypass.cooldown will bypass all cooldowns now
* Decreased default cooldown for chatReaction to 10
* Increased default cooldown for chatFlex to 10
* Fixed permission names in chatFlex.yml to use ecore instead of echat

DiscordSRV Update:
* Added option for broadcastChannel in chat.yml
* Added option for format in chat.yml
* Added markdown support for /broadcast
* Fixed issue with DiscordSRV and multiple channels

Under the Hood / Bug Fixes:
* Replaced all rogue message handlers with a shared method
* Fixed some spammy permission messages
* Cleaned up console logging
* Fixed several plugin warnings
* Fixed issue with Towny / Nation chats

New Features

• Economy support
  • /rain can now cost money (bypass with weather.cost.bypass)
  • /sleep can now cost money (bypass with sleep.cost.bypass)
• Reset subcommand for /chat announcer, accent, icon, tag, & nickcolor

Bugs

• Fixed Update Checker
• Plugin filename shows version number instead of SNAPSHOT
• Fixed resets for icons, accent color, text color
• Fixed chat pause not working