Update v1.8 — Compatibility, Polish & Message Modernization
• Compatibility Expansion: full build support across Paper/Spigot 1.18-1.21.11 with a safer Java 17 baseline.
• PvP Flow Polish: join, death, respawn, teleport, reload, and world-change handling refined for more consistent end-to-end behavior.
• Inventory & Armor Safety: lobby sword and PvP armor handling hardened to prevent overwrites, bad restores, and state leaks.
• Combat Accuracy: kills, deaths, hits, fireworks, and keep-inventory logic now apply only to valid Lobby4PvP combat.
• Firework Fix: kill fireworks now launch upward correctly before detonating instead of exploding instantly on the victim.
• Performance Hardening: reduced unnecessary inventory updates and moved stats saving to safer batched disk writes for busy servers.
• Plugin Compatibility: improved coexistence with WorldGuard, PvPManager, CombatLogX, Essentials, and Duels-style plugins.
• Smarter State Ownership: Lobby4PvP now yields managed lobby loadout state more safely when another plugin clearly takes control.
• Update Checker Fix: version comparison is now accurate, and update notices are shown as warning-level console messages.
• MiniMessage Support: configurable texts now support MiniMessage, hex colors, and legacy '&' formatting without breaking old configs.
• Config Polish: BossBar is now disabled by default, and formatting support is documented more clearly in the config.