⚔️ ModernFactions — Massive Stability & Core Systems Update
This update focuses heavily on stability, storage compatibility, combat systems, relation syncing, and protection mechanics.
Over 60+ fixes were applied across 40+ files to improve reliability, prevent corruption, and complete unfinished systems.

Critical Fixes

• Fixed /f forcejoin corrupting faction memberships by saving UUIDs instead of faction tags
  
  
• Fixed faction creators not receiving the LEADER role after creating a faction
  
  
• Fixed faction relation desyncs (enemy/truce/neutral now properly sync on both factions)
  
  
• Fixed warp cooldowns resetting after relog due to missing database save
  
  
• Fixed SQLite Gson serialization issues with Bukkit Locations
  
  
• Fixed member permission overrides silently failing on SQLite
  

Runtime Crash Fixes
Resolved numerous NPE crashes across:

• Faction chest handling
  
  
• Menus & GUIs
  
  
• Placeholder expansions
  
  
• Claim listeners
  
  
• Grace system
  
  
• Chat handling
  
  
• Mission loading
  
  
• Offline player lookups
  
  
• Various faction/player null edge cases
  

Security Fixes

• Fixed /f ban and /f unban lacking proper role permission checks
  
  
• Recruits can no longer moderate faction bans
  

Major Gameplay Improvements
Explosion & TNT Protection
The old explosion listener was an empty stub.
Now fully supports:

• Grace period protection
  
  
• Shield protection
  
  
• Claim TNT handling
  
  
• Config-based explosion protection
  

⚔️ Combat System Rewrite
Completely rebuilt PvP handling:

• Ally/member/truce/enemy combat matrix
  
  
• Grace & shield checks
  
  
• AreaEffectCloud projectile support
  
  
• Proper combat messages
  

Overclaim Support

• Implemented negative-power overclaiming support
  

Combat-safe /f stuck

• Players can no longer escape combat using /f stuck
  

Added Missing Commands
Implemented:

• /f help
• /f sethome

Including:

• Role checks
• Territory checks
• Audit logging
• Lang support
  

UTF-8 / Mojibake Fixes
Fixed corrupted characters appearing in:

• Territory action bars
• Warp countdowns
• Combat symbols
• Border messages

No more

• §
• ✔
• âš”

Storage & Performance Improvements

• Migrated several systems from direct MongoDB usage to storage-provider abstraction
  
  
• Improved SQLite compatibility
  
  
• Made faction chest saving asynchronous to reduce lag
  

Chat & Config Improvements

• allow-colors now defaults to true
  
  
• Added additional null safety for chat formatting
  
  
• Improved Discord webhook config parsing safety
  

Language Improvements
Added missing French lang keys for:

• Shield messages
  
  
• Home cancellation messages
  
  
• Cooldown handling

ModernFactions is now significantly more stable, safer, and closer to a production-ready large-scale factions experience.

Fixed an issue where /f chest from /f menu was not working
Fixed an issue with more missing lang keys :
- now all guis items names are fully configurable and modifiable
Fixed an issue where /f help was not returning anything -> its now fully configurable

Added 2 new options :
/f home now has a configurable teleport warmup.
in the config.yml there are new keys u cna fully regenerarte that one to


So players will see a 10 second delay before /f home teleports them, and it cancels if they move or take damage.

For the PvP rule, this config option was added:
That means a player with no faction cannot hurt someone who is standing inside their own faction claim

- FIXED ISSUES:
= /f sethome was not working correctly as it should

= /f chest had issues where items were not saved

= added some lang files missing keys

Changes in the API

Each server was keeping its own cached FPlayer and Faction data in memory, and when you switched to another server, that server was not forcing a fresh read from MongoDB. So a player could join server 2 and still see stale faction state from when server 2 started.

Bug Fixes