• LevelledMobs 4 is the upcoming revamp of LevelledMobs. We have re-thought and re-programmed the plugin from the ground up.
• We will need your help with receiving feedback on the improved config files we've come up with, and also with some basic testing just to see if it runs properly on your servers.
• We want to make sure that LM 4 is as stable as possible before we ship it out to everyone.
• To help, you don't need to spend much time and you don't need any special skills. Testing should only take about 15 minutes and you can test the plugin however you want, ideally just checking that everything you want to use is working correctly.
  
• Please contact @lokka30 on the Discord guild if you're interested in supporting the project.

Full Changelog:
Thank you to @stumper66 and @Oathkeeper for maintaining LevelledMobs 3!
Thank you to everyone who has supported LevelledMobs so far - reviewers, donators, testers, contributors, and all of the users who provide us with bug reports and suggestions. <3

Additions:

• new feature: utilizing the plugin LM Items you can now utilize 3rd party custom items directly in custom drops
  • Currently supports: Coins, ExecutableItems, MMOItems, EcoItems (and all other plugins from @Auxilor)
• added new option in rules for multipliers: do-not-merge true/false
• added custom drop attribute external-amount
• added support in custom drops for the following attributes in the defaults section: type, external-amount
• custom drops debugging now shows external attributes
• rules can now reference multiple drop tables with use-droptable-id
• added new apply-setting: lock-entity true/false
• added new condition: allowed-worldguard-region-owners

Improvements:

• if a zero value is specified for multipliers then that attribute will not be multiplied
• compatibility manager now ensures a compat check is enabled prior to making attempts to retrieve results, instead of the other way around.
• removed a few settings from the default settings.yml that are rarely used
• the external plugin detection code now checks if the plugin is disabled
• bumped spigot and paper api reference versions to 1.18.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT
• custom drops are now processed after the server fully starts.

Fixes:

• fixed console spam if a WorldGuard condition is used in rules.yml but WorldGuard is not installed or disabled
• fixed noise error if a rules condition uses an empty array
• fix exception when external plugin returns a null itemstack
• fixed custom biome groups not working correctly
• fixed occasional error while applying levelled equipment
• fixed rare null exception when using custom player heads in custom drops

Support LevelledMobs Development
Here are some methods you could support LevelledMobs development.

• [5 seconds - free] Star our GitHub repository
• [30 seconds - free] Post your feedback in the reviews section
• [10 minutes - free] Test a LM4 development build (contact @lokka30)
• [? - free] Contribute code, documentation, etc.

Errors in this update post? Please inform me on the Discord Server (ping @lokka30).


All the best,
~ @lokka30, @stumper66, @Oathkeeper