NotQuests

This release brings NotQuests up to the latest Paper version, refreshes all translations, and fixes a handful of annoying command bugs.

🧩 Dependency upgrades

• Updated to Minecraft / Paper 26.1.2.
• Newer InvUI 2.1.0 (the GUI library) and HikariCP 7.0.2 (database pooling).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Tab-completing a boolean condition (like Climbing, Flying, or ActiveQuests) under /qa conditions add no longer crashes.
• /qa conditions add no longer rejects valid input with "Invalid syntax", so you can actually create those conditions now.
• /nq abort works again instead of throwing an error, including when you have no active quests.
• /nq abort, /nq progress, /qa failQuest, and /qa completeQuest no longer get blocked by a bogus "accepting/previewing is disabled" message when the quest preview GUI is turned on.

🌍 Translations

• All 31 languages are back in sync with English. Outdated and renamed entries were cleaned up, and missing lines were filled in, while existing translations were left untouched.

🛠️ Refactors

• Reworked, nicer demo conversation. (/qa conversations create namehere --demo)

This is a backport for paper 1.21.11

Breaking Changes

• Paper 1.21.1 is now supported
• Java 21 is now required (previously Java 17)
• Removed integrations: BetonQuest, zNPCs, and ProjectKorra have been temporarily removed to keep notquests simple and easier to maintain. If you relied on BetonQuest conditions/events, zNPCs NPC linking, or ProjectKorra objectives, these are no longer available.

New Features

Custom YAML-based GUIs

• The entire GUI system has been rewritten with a new YAML-driven GUI framework
• GUIs are now fully configurable via YAML files in the plugins/NotQuests/guis/ folder
• Supports tabbed interfaces, paged item lists, and action buttons
• Default GUIs included: main menu with tabs (active quests / take quests), quest preview, NPC quest selection, category browsing, and quest abort confirmation
• Custom skull textures, dynamic placeholders (%QUESTNAME%, %CATEGORYNAME%, %PLAYER%, etc.), and per-item lore/display name from the language file
• Powered by InvUI

Breaking Changes

• Paper 26.1.1 is now supported. Older versions are no longer supported
• Java 25 is now required (previously Java 17)
• Removed integrations: BetonQuest, zNPCs, and ProjectKorra have been temporarily removed to keep notquests simple and easier to maintain. If you relied on BetonQuest conditions/events, zNPCs NPC linking, or ProjectKorra objectives, these are no longer available.

New Features

Custom YAML-based GUIs

• The entire GUI system has been rewritten with a new YAML-driven GUI framework
• GUIs are now fully configurable via YAML files in the plugins/NotQuests/guis/ folder
• Supports tabbed interfaces, paged item lists, and action buttons
• Default GUIs included: main menu with tabs (active quests / take quests), quest preview, NPC quest selection, category browsing, and quest abort confirmation
• Custom skull textures, dynamic placeholders (%QUESTNAME%, %CATEGORYNAME%, %PLAYER%, etc.), and per-item lore/display name from the language file
• Powered by InvUI 2.0

• [+] Support paper 1.21.1
• [!] Remove unused dependencies. This reduces the size of notquests from 6.5 MB to 3.4 MB

• [!] Fix creation and saving of quest profiles not working (/nq profiles)

• [^] Upgrade various dependencies of notquests: betonquest, citizens, elitemobs, projectkorra, uclans, znpcs, floodgate, placeholderapi, crunch, hikaricp
• [@] Update various translations

• [+] Support paper 1.20.6
• [!] Disable UltimateClans support, as their maven repository for v5 has been deleted

• [+] Support mythicmobs factions in killmobs objective (mmfaction:yourfactionname)
• [!] Attempt to fix db issues

• [!] fixed sqlite locking issues by limiting its max. connection pool size to 1.

• [+] Update to Paper 1.20
• [+] Update Citizens API so it supports the latest version

• [+] Support Minecraft 1.19.4 (Thanks to @BakaAless )
• [+] Drop Spigot support completely. This reduces the jar size!
• [+] Add AND and OR to boolean conditions (Thanks to @BakaAless )
• [^] return warning when using /qa editor command
• [!] Prevent unnecessary quest saves during plugin load. This should increase the load speed of NotQuests, especially if you have many Quests
• [!] fix OtherQuest objective task description not displaying the displayname of the other Quest
• [!] fix typo in Quest chat preview
• [!] fix conversation focus distance check erroring when player is in different worlds
• [!] fix QuestOnCooldown variable not working
• [@] Update a bunch of translations

• [+] New objective: Enchant

• [+] For conversations: Add random line possibility (Thanks to @BakaAless ). Instead of just "text:", you can now specify "texts:" as a string list inside of conversations. Showcase: https://github.com/AlessioGr/NotQuests/pull/189

• [^] Update all kinds of dependencies

• [^] Stop a moving Citizens NPC when in a conversation (Thanks to @BakaAless ). Showcase: https://github.com/AlessioGr/NotQuests/pull/188

• [^] Allow minimessage format on quest-giver-npc-indicator-above-name (Thanks to @TheZexquex )

• [^] Ability to check objective unlock conditions for:

  • every time an action is run for a player (default: on)
  • every X seconds (default: off)

  This also fixes some faulty logic with repeating tasks. Stuff like condition objectives were checked too quickly/often if multiple players are online

• [!] Fix quest giver hologram armorstand not getting destroyed when despawning npc (Thanks to @TheZexquex )

• [!] Fix armor being visible in armor slots after completing DeliverItems objective (Thanks to @TheZexquex )

• [!] Finally fix lang tags being invisible inside custom gradient tags if they are not wrapped in a solid color. This removes the hard-coded blue color for translated material names and thus allows for more customization.

• [+] Better conversations: Conversation Focus! Thanks @BakaAless for adding this feature
• [!] Fix errors when a condition is executed from an async thread

• [^] updated BQ integration interceptor to work with the latest version

• [+] Now you can finally customize the category GUI items (default is chest) using /qa categories edit categoryname guiItem ...

• maxAccepts => limits.accept, limits.complete, limits.fail. maxAccepts did not make sense, as it counted the completions and not the accepts
• New variables: QuestReachedMaxCompletions and QuestReachedMaxFails
• /qa edit questname acceptCooldown complete ...

• For PlayerStatisticVariable: Only allow untyped statistics. The others are filtered out, as they need additional arguments
• NPC holo stuff safety check incase PacketManager is null
• Update packet version check to 1.19.3

• [+] Added "Statistic" variable, which lets you access 85 Minecraft statistics and use them as conditions, objectives, actions etc. You can find all statistics you can use here: https://jd.papermc.io/paper/1.19/org/bukkit/Statistic.html
• [^] Various bug fixes & stability improvements