🗡️ Changelog

The launch ceremony. A ring of shards rises from the ground, spins into a storm and merges in a burst of colour — flinging the whole server skyward into a 30-minute grace period as the world border expands.

Three mythic shields — Void, Healer and Berserker — are bound to the End, Overworld and Nether. Gather an expensive recipe, toss it into the matching dimension's forge altar, and claim a shield with a powerful kit. Only one of each can exist at a time.

A new shard built around freezing control: glide faster across snow and ice, trap your enemies in a freezing vortex they can't escape, and lock a single target solid where they stand.

Eight Amber Fragments scatter across the dimensions, each empowering whoever carries it. Gather all eight to forge the Amber Mace mythic — then survive 20 minutes with your coordinates broadcast to the whole server.

A new mythic earned by slaying the Ender Dragon and winning the ritual that follows — a 15-minute standoff at the End portal that ends in a blast of energy and a race to claim the shard.

Ocean and Health abilities got a visual overhaul — richer, more readable particle effects that show exactly what each ability is doing, with no change to how they play.

Slaying the Ender Dragon now drops a Dragon Egg — a relic that empowers you while it's carried: every shard cooldown is halved and your beneficial potions last 20% longer.

The Ocean Shard is now playable — its full kit goes live: a Conduit Power passive, the Riptide Zone, and the Hydro Beam. Its final in-game texture is still on the way.

Shards has been rebuilt from the ground up as a production-grade plugin. A brand-new lives system, fully reworked shard kits, directional trust, native stat tracking, and a foundation built for performance, stability, and safety.

Compatibility and release hardening: WorldGuard region gating, anticheat-friendly movement, a real-block dome rework, unbreakable domain walls, and native gameplay stats feeding the website.

The second wave of shard kits: Scorch (the Hell rework), Nature, Sky, Earth, and a code-complete Ocean awaiting its texture.

The first four shard kits land on top of a shared ability backbone — Lightning, Health, Shadow, and Echo.

The engine every shard plugs into: a lives-gated activation pipeline, persistent cooldowns, stuns, and the in-game HUD.

The −3…+3 lives system, with a single audited mutation choke point, threshold unlocks and debuffs, and PvP transfer rules.

Shard items with tamper-proof identity and a strict lock — no drops, no containers, one per player, powers gated to either hand.

Directional, database-backed trust with a single enforcement gate that every harmful ability must pass through.

The foundation everything sits on: the config framework, the database layer, and a crash-safe player data lifecycle.

Project setup — specs, roadmap, and a buildable plugin skeleton targeting the live server's Paper version.