Version 1.2 – Stable

Six months after the first release, this one features a lot of new things, bugfixes and optimisations, listed below in the changelog.

This release is the last one supporting CraftBukkit/Spigot 1.7.9.

Changelog

Since the last snapshot (1.1.3)

Improvements

• Added an option to put all players joining the game after the beginning in spectator mode
• Random colors for teams (also for solo mode).
• Added /join and /leave commands (#47).
• Added a chat-based GUI to select a team. This GUI can be automatically displayed to every player without a team, when they join. (#47)
• Added the commands /uh feed and /uh feedall (#48)
• Added the command /uh kill to mark a player as dead even if he/she is offline.
• Added a new /uh infos command, displaying the current state of the game.
• Added a way to schedule commands after the start of the server, the beginning and the end of the game.
• Added a way to display the state of the game in the MOTD.
• The names are colored according to the teams in the death message.
• You can reset the achievements and disable the statistics' update before the game.
• The player count in the scoreboard now displays the number of connected players before the game.
• Better help message for /uh spawns generate.
• Updated the sounds used by the compass.
• Added an option to force-disable the locked-team-chat when a player die, so with SpectatorPlus and commands blocked the spectators can speak in the spectators chat.
• Automatic language detection (system language used by default, instead of en_US).
• Added the build number in /uh about, for bug reports.
• Added Brazilian (pt_BR) translation by @eraizel.
• Added Czech (cs_CZ) translation by Nojp (@Impedateon).

Optimizations

• Many optimizations in miscellaneous places (#58).

Bug fixes

• Fixed 1.8 hearts in tab list colored following the team's color.
• Fixed: the players were teleported to the spawn during the slow start in case of relog.
• Fixed weired food behavior with 1.8 clients (#66, because the client thinks the game is in peaceful).
• Fixed death.kick.allow-reconnect not working when set to false.
• Fixed: cannot remove a team with offline players in it (#68).
• Fixed: cannot generate spawn points if the two bounds of an axe are negative.
• Fixed miscellaneous duplication bugs with the compass.
• Fixed: you can put a player in or out of a team even if he/she is disconnected (as long as he/she logged in before on the server).
• Fixed: non-medium compass recipes not working.
• Some other minor bug fixes.

Since the last stable version (1.0)

Improvements

• Fireworks are no longer launched from a single point.
• Added some new ProTips: for the crafts, the “golden heads”, the initial invincibility.
• Improved the way sounds are managed.
  • You can configure the volume and the pitch.
  • Added a start sound, and a ProTips one.
• Deaths are highlighted in a grep-friendly way, in the console. Death message included.
• The players are notified when they enter/leave a team.
• You can now specify the maximal size of a team in the configuration file.
• The team names are no longer limited to 16 characters.
• The /uh team list command now displays the on/offline state of the players.
• The initial teleportation to the spawn point (when the game is not started) is now safe and can be disabled.
• You can now add/remove health with /uh heal[all] [player] ±diff (ex /uh heal AmauryPi +2).
• You can now ask the spawn points generator to avoid water.
• Added timers. You can use these to create a countdown of any duration, at any time (even when the game is not started).
  The countdowns are displayed in the scoreboard, except if you hide them with /uh timers hide <name ...>.
  You can create a timer, with /uh timers add <duration> <name ...>, and starts it after with /uh timers start <name ...>.
  The timers can be paused, and they follow the global freezes.
  API available for developers.
• Big improvements on the way spawn points are managed.
  • You use now /uh spawns add to add a spawn point, just like before.
  • You can now generate automagically a bunch of spawn points in the map, following various shapes.
    The three currently available shapes are random, grid and circular. These three shapes generates the spawn points with a minimal distance between them.
    You have a lot of options – the command is:
    /uh spawns generate <circular|grid|random> [areaDiameter = current diameter] [distanceMin = 250] [count = spawn count needed] [xCenter = xSpawn] [zCenter = zSpawn] [world = sender's world].
    But if you don't want these options, simply write this after registering the teams (or immediately if the game is a solo game) to generate just what you need, in the world you're in:
    /uh spawns generate <circular|grid|random>
  • You can now add spawn points in other worlds than the default one.
  • Added /uh spawns list to list the registered spawn points, sorted by world.
  • Added /uh spawns dump to list the registered spawn points, sorted by world, in an exportable format. You can use the output with FooPlot or Plot.ly as example.
  • You can now remove a spawn points with his coordinates (remove subcommand), or all spawn points (reset).
  • The spawn manager will check if a safe spot is available, when adding the point.
  • If the points are added in the Nether, the fall is removed, and the players are teleported in the ground, on a safe place.
• Renamed /uh team addplayer & removeplayer to join & leave.
  • Added two new recipes for the compass, with an eye of ender, or an ender pearl, instead of the redstone dust.
    
• The compass recipe is now semi-shapeless: the central part (iron + ingredient) is fixed, but the loots can be placed in any configuration.
• You can now broadcast the winners and launch some fireworks!
• The Witch spawn can be disabled (either the natural spawn, or the spawn from a villager, involving lightning, in the 1.8 version).
• Beautiful hardcore hearts, with automatic respawn in option after a delay, to avoid the interrogation about “Can I respawn to spectate?” (the client thinks the server is in hardcore mode, so it displays a hardcore death screen, without any Respawn button).
  
• You can teleport a team or the spectators with the new /uh tp command.
• You can now lock the team-chat using /togglechat, and send a global message with /g <message> (useful if the team chat is locked).
• Administrators can go in another team chat, with /togglechat <team ...>.
• The team-chat is now permission-based (permission granted to everyone by default).
• Added ProTips for players, to inform them about the team-chat commands, the crafts and the initial invincibility. All ProTips can be disabled.
  

Optimizations

• A lot of miscellaneous optimizations around the code.

Major bug fixes

• Bugs if some players are offline.
• Exception displayed in the console when someone clicks on his inventory (don't affect the game, but leads to a console full of exceptions).
• Server crash when throwing an ender pearl, if the ender pearl's damages are disabled (#44).

Developers

This version breaks the compatibility with the 1.0 version.
Please note the compatibility will also be broken with the next version, because I'm doing a big refactoring of the plugin (see the dev branch), so I suggest you to wait a bit before updating if you don't fear to use directly the 1.3-dev.

The configuration file needs to be regenerated.
The language files WILL be regenerated, save your changes.