HuskTowns 2.6 is a major release of HuskTowns adding Town Relations ( ON by default), Town Wars ( OFF by default), and several useful quality-of-life features for both players and admins. It also fixes a number of bugs, adds a new API event, and updates locales.

• Added Town Relations (#334)
  • Towns can now mark other towns as an "ally" or "enemy" to manage a list of relations
  • Command for managing relations is /town relations [list (town)|set <ally|neutral|enemy> <other_town>]
  • The MANAGE_RELATIONS privilege (default role: Trustee) is required to manage town relations.
  • This system can be turned off in config.yml. It is ON by default.
• Added Town Wars. This feature is currently experimental and a work-in-progress — please send in your feedback! (#334)
  • Allows towns which have marked each other as an "enemy" to go to war
  • Command for managing war is /town war <accept|declare|surrender|view>
  • This system can be turned on in config.yml. It is OFF by default, and requires town relations to also be ON.
  • A town can declare war on another town, and specify a wager; the victor of the war will have the wager added to their coffers
  • War declarations work cross-server, but the war battle itself will take place on the server the defending town's spawn is set.
  • The DECLARE_WAR privilege (default role: Mayor) is required to send or accept declarations of war.
  • When a war declaration is accepted, the town that declared war will be teleported. All members of the defending town will be teleported to their spawn.
  • Participants in a war are removed from the war if they are killed (or otherwise die) and if they leave a configurable radius of the defending town's spawn.
  • During a war, special war flags apply on the defending town's claims. You can customize these flags depending on your particular flavor of chaos — allow full destruction, or lock down to just allowing PvP!
  • A town loses a war if they no longer have any online war participants. If three hours elapse or if the server restarts, the war will be declared a stalemate (both towns will lose their wager if this occurs). Towns can also surrender a war with /town war surrender.
  • The status of a war is displayed in the Boss Bar (which will display the remaining war participants to defeat) as well as in the war overview menu /town war (which will show a text-based graphic bar indicating the current balance of an active war)
  • A town cannot declare war again for another 48 hours (this cooldown is configurable)
• Added a new admin command for managing town balances: /admintown balance
  • Lets admins set, add, or remove money from the coffers of towns
• Add town points as fallback currency for servers without Vault (#342)
  • If Vault is not installed/detected, the currency used for towns will be an integer-based "Town Points" (example format: 100pts)
  • Town points can be added to towns with /admintown balance (add|remove|set)
  • Town points can also be earned as part of advancement rewards
  • This lets servers not using an economy use HuskTowns standalone and award points to towns through other means, to allow towns to level up
• Town members can now self-claim vacant plots (#369)
  • To do so, members can simply stand in a vacant town plot and type /town plot claim
  • This will add them to the plot as a manager
  • Requires the CLAIM_PLOT privilege (default role: Member)
• The /town census menu will now show if a member is online
  • Online members will appear green in the census list, and you can hover to view their online status
  • This also works on cross-server setups; Redis is recommended for this feature in particular!
• The plugin will now automatically create a backup of the SQLite database on startup (#368)
• Updated the Simplified Chinese (zh-cn) locales, courtesy of @MSCMDD (#345, #370)
• Fixed the plugin not restricting interactions when a player was holding an item that had been deactivated (e.g. Ender Pearls on cooldown, Shields disabled with an axe attack) (#351)
• Fixed no message being displayed when attempting to level-up a town when the town had already reached the max level.
• API: Added a PostTownCreateEvent, to let you handle when a town has been created. (#336)
• API: Fixed the user involved in the MemberJoinEvent, MemberLeaveEvent, MemberRoleChangeEvent and MemberRoleChangeEvent, courtesy of @thomasz05

To update, drag+drop and regenerate your config files. You should regenerate your config.yml and messages-xx-xx.yml files. If you haven't modified them from the previous default, you should also regenerate rules.yml and roles.yml; otherwise, don't forget to add the new wartime rules / action privileges to their respective files!

Thank you, and enjoy!