TheBridges 1.0 - It's been a while but I delievered!
The beta phase is over. TheBridges 1.0 is the full production release: a complete rewrite and polish pass across teams, sudden death, bridges, bosses, refills, progression, setup UX, scoreboards, and runtime stability.

This release turns the plugin from a promising beta into a fully server-ready Bridges platform built for real public use.

Release Changelog

Core Release

• TheBridges is now considered a full 1.0 production release.
• Large-scale polish pass across gameplay, administration, progression, setup, and match flow.
• Many systems were refactored to behave more predictably under real server conditions.
• Focused heavily on stability, consistency, cleaner lifecycle handling, and production readiness.

Teams System

• Reworked team identity to use stable canonical team names like Team Red instead of player-based naming.
• Prevented normal players from leaving teams once assigned.
• Locked team switching after assignment unless the player has explicit override permission.
• Improved reconnect and disconnect handling so players no longer lose team membership incorrectly.
• Hardened team flow for real match environments and tournament-style stability.

Sudden Death

• Rebuilt Sudden Death to behave as an actual endgame phase instead of a deathmatch arena.
• Removed fake Sudden Death center, Sudden Death spawn system, and related map setup clutter.
• Sudden Death now plays out naturally on the real map.
• Water rising was redesigned and improved significantly.
• Added admin-set initial water rise level via map command.
• Water rising now fills cleaner, expands from center outward, and prioritizes relevant areas.
• If no initial water level is set, fallback selection uses real spawn-based logic.
• Water is now properly lethal and damages players consistently while in liquids.
• Sudden Death duration was extended for better pacing.
• Added true collapse escalation after Sudden Death timeout:
  • lightning pressure near players
  • random water spawning near survivors
  • bosses spawning on team, solo, and center anchor locations
• Removed unwanted boss spawn messaging during Sudden Death and forced-spawn pressure moments.

Bridges Generation

• Rebuilt bridge geometry generation to eliminate fragmented, incomplete, and inconsistent builds.
• Greatly improved diagonal bridge generation and directional consistency.
• Switched from coarse snapped bridge planning to a more continuous sampled footprint approach.
• Improved bridge surface filling so bridges are fully built instead of stitched in broken spans.
• Added post-build integrity reconciliation to fill any missing planned blocks.
• Hardened runtime placement so temporary placement failures do not permanently create holes.
• Improved replaceability logic for passable clutter such as grass, snow layers, torches, vines, and similar blocks.
• Made bridges far more natural, visually coherent, and structurally believable in all directions.
• Added underside support ribs and stronger structural shaping.
• Added end abutments so bridges feel anchored into terrain rather than abruptly floating.
• Improved defense/detail placement to stay more consistent regardless of angle.
• Deterministic material choice now prevents visual palette shuffling between bridge spawns.
• Deterministic bridge seeding improves consistency and debugging.
• Bridge generation timing was slowed slightly for a better visual reveal.

Bridge Animation and UX

• Improved bridge reveal pacing so bridges spawn more cleanly and more dramatically.
• Segment reveal animation was upgraded to use the hardened placement path.
• Bridge animations now place more safely and consistently across all animation modes.
• Added live bridge build progress to scoreboard:
  • active build state
  • percent complete
  • block progress
  • estimated remaining time
  • bridge count/status

Bridge Setup and Map Admin UX

• Bridge setup is now dramatically easier for admins.
• Added a much more guided setup flow for bridges.
• Added support for a dedicated bridge wand/tool for position selection.
• Admins can now create bridges using simple position marking instead of raw coordinate entry.
• Added bridge position commands that use current player location.
• Added improved setup prompts and HUD guidance.
• Added live bridge editing flow and easier bridge management.
• Added auto-bridge generation options from map/team layout.
• Map setup GUI now better exposes bridge configuration and setup progress.
• Overall map setup is much less manual and much more production friendly.

Ore Replacer

• Removed impractical cuboid size limitations.
• Ore replacement now works on large cuboids and large maps.
• Improved runtime behavior and scalability.
• Ore processing now prioritizes gameplay-relevant areas first:
  • map center
  • center objectives
  • team spawns
  • solo spawns
• Ore replacement now expands from the middle outward instead of scanning from arbitrary corners.

Water / Liquid Damage

• Liquids now properly damage players.
• Water now damages on contact every few ticks as intended.
• Better UX and gameplay feedback for dangerous water interaction.
• Sudden Death flood pressure is now actually meaningful and match-ending.

Pre-Bridges Combat Rules

• Pre-Bridges no longer blocks all damage globally.
• Only player-vs-player combat is restricted there.
• Environmental and non-PvP damage behavior is cleaner and more intentional.

Boss System

• Boss spawning and cleanup were significantly improved.
• Bosses now spawn more safely and more reliably.
• Boss health handling was corrected.
• Rage behavior and boss damage logic were fixed.
• Boss targeting now better respects alive-player state.
• Spectators and invalid targets are ignored more consistently.
• Reward overflow behavior was improved.
• Sudden Death boss integration was made cleaner and quieter.
• Added boss count visibility to scoreboard during Sudden Death.
• Progression support was expanded around boss-related gameplay.

Chest Refills

• Refills were improved to behave properly for Bridges match flow.
• Chest refill handling now resets actual relevant loaded chests rather than just bookkeeping state.
• Better consistency for center refills, full refills, and match resets.
• Improved hologram/state refresh behavior tied to chest reset flow.

Scoreboard / UI

• Added better live scoreboard support for Bridges-specific systems.
• Improved bridge build progress presentation.
• Added Sudden Death water wave scoreboard data:
  • current water Y
  • next target Y
  • next wave timing
  • wave progress
• Added Sudden Death boss alive count support.
• Improved segment and runtime presentation across match states.
• Better focus-card behavior so high-priority endgame data is shown when it matters.

End Phase / Match Shutdown

• Fixed the issue where end flow appeared to skip immediately into restarting.
• Reworked end lifecycle so end handling is cleaner and more predictable.
• Unified end/restart behavior under a single end-phase driven flow.
• Reduced duplicated countdown behavior and simplified terminal phase handling.
• End-of-match flow is now more production-safe and easier to reason about.

Libby / Runtime Dependency Loading

• Fixed library-loading problems with runtime dependencies like XSeries, FastBoard, and AnvilGUI.
• Cleaned up the build/runtime strategy so Libby becomes the proper source of truth.
• Removed problematic mixed relocation/runtime-loading behavior.
• Improved startup verification and failure behavior for missing critical libraries.

Challenges, Achievements, and Quests

• Progression systems were rebalanced around actual Bridges gameplay instead of a narrow survival-games style loop.
• Better support for mining, routing, building, bridge pressure, center control, bosses, travel, and crafting.
• Expanded Bridges quest pool with more prep/build/control-oriented objectives.
• Increased default quest assignment count for a fuller progression experience.
• Improved starter quest selection to better reflect the real Bridges match loop.
• Curated the default challenge pool to better fit competitive Bridges play.
• Added missing Bridges-relevant challenge coverage.
• Reduced the default reliance on overly gimmicky challenge rolls.
• Added new boss-focused achievement support.
• Hardened challenge registration so difficulty buckets cannot silently fail due to bad config metadata.
• Added self-healing challenge registry rebuild behavior if challenge pools ever come up empty.

Production Readiness

• Many legacy or misleading systems were removed where they no longer matched actual Bridges gameplay.
• Reduced hidden admin friction across setup and map creation.
• Improved deterministic behavior for generation systems.
• Improved match-state consistency and terminal-state safety.
• Better separation between display/config metadata and runtime gameplay truth.
• Numerous fixes aimed at making the plugin safer for large public servers, events, and long-term operation.

Hotfix with bridges building extra blocks wrongly.
Fixes with scoreboard on modern version
Fixes with adventure api

Fixed issues with tasks still running after game was over resulting in some ugly errors (non game breaking)

Added citizens support for kits and teams. (/tba command)

Bug fixes with teleportation and game logic.
Also added some new messages

A few critical bugs were fixed with game logic.

Hotfix that fixes critical issue with game logic in lobby state that'd sometimes cause the game to crash.
Fixed adventure and minimessage support in messages and scoreboards.