james

Apparently, I released two versions of the plugin that were just completely unplayable 🥲. The main issues were the grace period progress and border reduction. When I playtested with friends, the border wasn’t working. So I worked on fixing it by tweaking the TimeUnits in 26 and in 1.21. However, I didn’t really playtest after that because I was more concerned about the world border not behaving. Instead, I forgot to manage when the border reduction should be triggered at the three possible instances: after game start (if no grace period), after the grace period, or after game load (if no grace period). The main issue was after the grace period, since I changed how the progress was calculated every tick. But instead of handling it in intervals of seconds as intended, I set it to minutes because I forgot to look at my config and how I set it up 💀. Additionally, I had to fix how player deaths were triggered because the grace period used to track progress as a percent, but now it tracks by the ticks that have passed. But finally, the world border wasn’t running because I left the runnable to be async. In order for the size to change, it must be on the main thread. In other words, I made very careless mistakes in my code and didn’t just do quick playtests when I had time. But I do have to say, Minecraft 26 is a pain in the ass because of how the border works. I could run the border async in 1.21 for some reason, which is why I didn’t notice it at first. It should work now! And if it doesn’t, I’m rewriting the whole code 🫩

Optimized the asynchronous block placements into chunks (4 seperate sections of the block layer should be rendered at the same time)
Border Reduction (This was annoying because Minecraft 26+ broke border expansions & reductions / lowkey spent hours trying to find out why the border wasn’t moving on the new versions 🥲)
Added Fireworks + Sound Effects (Makes the game more engaging with stakes)
Replaced event messages with titles (More visible!)
Smoother bossbars (Each is changed in one tick intervals instead of 20)
Squashed some bugs 🐛 (Mainly titles being repeated and tick events continuing even when the game was over)

In other words, some quality of life changes. I mainly took feedback from YouTube videos that used my plugin.

This is the third iteration of trying to figure out Google Authentication with domain restrictions, but I got to work with Better Auth. Now that I have schemas (I’m forced to have user, session, account, verification schemas that can’t be changed 🥀), I started work on the clubs. It took like an hour to scrape the Master Club list, but it was better than I expected. I’ve also started to use Mantine UI because even though I love styling, I usually repeat the same components, and I’m surprised by how intuitive the library is.

Right now, I made a clubs page to show all the clubs with basic filter options, and it will have to work for now because I lowkey hate the palette I passed over. Additionally, I added a mobile navbar I took from when I worked on my school’s robotics website, however, the padding is a little off now that I see it, but I’ll fix that later.

I’ll probably keep working on clubs, with each one having its own page. I still have to figure out how I will handle club meetings and attendance. I have a simple schema made, but we’ll see how that goes. Especially because I want to add charts and a way to export attendance, which requires attention on users/students, so I’ll probably work on both at the same time.