Added text mails to the mailbox module, to send a message to a player who is not connected (modules/mailbox/config.yml):
/mail send <player> <message> works with an online or offline player, /mail read displays the received mails and marks them as read, /mail clearmessages [player] deletes them and /mail sendall <message> sends a mail to every online player
A player who connects with unread mails is notified with a clickable message (message-notify-on-join, message-notify-delay)
Configurable limits: message-max-amount per player, message-max-length, message-cooldown between two mails (bypassed with essentials.bypass.cooldown) and message-date-format
A muted player cannot send a mail, and a player who used /ignore no longer receives the mails of the ignored player
Persistence via a new user_mail_messages table (SQLite and MySQL) and inside the user file for the JSON storage, unlike the item mailbox which stays MySQL only
New permissions essentials.mail.send, essentials.mail.read, essentials.mail.send.all and essentials.mail.clear.messages
Fixed the build of the NMS:V26_2 module: since Minecraft 26.1 the built in entity types are declared in EntityTypes and no longer in EntityType, so EntityType.BLOCK_DISPLAY, ITEM_DISPLAY and TEXT_DISPLAY could not be resolved anymore
Fixed shadowJar failing with Unsupported class file major version 69 — the NMS:V26_2 module still builds with a Java 25 toolchain (needed to read the 26.2 dev bundle) but now emits Java 21 bytecode, which the ASM version bundled with the shadow plugin can remap
Added a new custom commands module (modules/customcommands/config.yml) to create your own commands without any other plugin, for /discord, /map, /vote, /store, /updates...
Each command can define aliases, a permission, a description, a cooldown in seconds (bypassed with essentials.bypass.cooldown) and a list of messages
type selects how the content is displayed: TCHAT, CENTER, ACTION, TITLE, BOSSBAR or NONE
MiniMessage, legacy colors and PlaceholderAPI placeholders are supported, so <click:open_url:'...'> can be used to display clickable links
zMenu actions can be run after the messages (sound, command, inventory, ...)
Commands are registered at runtime and /ezreload updates them without duplicating anything; a custom command that would override an existing zEssentials command is refused with a message in the console
Added display options for /seen in modules/sanction/config.yml — seen-show-uuid, seen-show-ip, seen-show-last-location, seen-show-created-at and seen-show-playtime. The IP address can now be hidden globally, even from operators: until now it was only protected by the essentials.seen.show.ip permission, which an operator always has
Fixed several configuration options being silently ignored: they were declared as private final fields with a constant initializer, so javac inlined them at compile time and the value read from the configuration file was never used
Spawn module: respawn-listener-priority and spawn-join-listener-priority — the respawn and join listeners were always registered with the NORMAL priority instead of the configured one (HIGHEST by default)
Worldedit module: enable-color-visualisation and open-help-inventory
Clarified the /compact and /compactall descriptions to mention their existing /condense and /condenseall aliases
Fixed the chat ping sound not playing on Paper 1.21.3+ — org.bukkit.Sound became an interface, so the ping sound is now resolved cross-version through the zMenu XSound API (like the teleportation sounds)
Fixed countdown/teleport placeholders (%name%, %seconds%, ...) showing as raw text when the message type is set to TITLE or BOSSBAR — internal placeholders are now resolved for every message type
Added /pingsound command (/pingsounds alias) to toggle the chat ping sound per player; the enable-player-ping-sound global toggle is now honored
Added /tp <player1> <player2> — teleport one player to another player
Added a player ignore system with persistence (user_ignores table):
/ignore <player> blocks a player's private messages and teleport requests (/tpa, /tpahere)
/unignore <player> and /ignorelist (/ignores alias)
Works for online and offline targets, persists across restarts (MySQL and JSON storage)
Added /delhome-other <player> <home> (/delhomeother, /hdelother aliases) — admin command to delete a specific home of another player (online or offline), with permission essentials.del.home.other
Added persistence for /ptime and /pweather — the per-player time and weather are now saved and re-applied automatically when the player reconnects
Fixed private messages to a vanished player revealing their presence when they had ignored the sender — the vanish check now takes precedence over the ignore check
Removed the non-functional itemadders-font-regex chat config options (the feature was never wired) and corrected the /sc reference in the chat config comment (it is /chathistory)
Added a Homes system enhancement (see modules/home/config.yml):
Public homes — /homepublic <home> makes a home visitable by everyone, /publichomes [player] lists them (in chat or a paginated GUI via public-homes-display: CHAT|INVENTORY); visit with /home <player>:<home> (permissions essentials.home.public, essentials.home.visit, configurable max-public-homes)
Shared homes — /homeshare <home> <player>, /homeunshare, /homeshares to share a home with specific players (online or offline); shares are purged when the home is deleted (permission essentials.home.share, max-shared-per-home)
Categories — /homecategory <home> <category> to organise homes (permission essentials.home.category), placeholder %category%
Favorites — /homefavorite <home> to mark a home as favorite; favorite-first shows favorites at the top (permission essentials.home.favorite), placeholder %favorite%
Preview — optional enable-home-preview shows a clickable confirmation before teleporting
Import — /homeimport essentialsx imports homes from EssentialsX (permission essentials.home.import)
Persistence via new is_public/category/is_favorite columns on user_homes and a new user_home_shares table (MySQL and JSON storage)
Updated zMenu to 1.1.1.6 and added support for Minecraft/Paper 26.2:
Added a new NMS:V26_2 module (built against the 26.2.build.+ dev bundle, compiled with Java 25 which Minecraft 26.x requires)
Migrated the whole plugin to Mojang mappings — Paper 26.1+ removed Spigot reobfuscation, so every NMS module now uses MOJANG_PRODUCTION and the shaded jar is marked paperweight-mappings-namespace: mojang
zEssentials is now Paper-only and requires Paper 1.20.5+ — Minecraft 1.20.4 is no longer supported (Mojang-mapped plugins only load on 1.20.5+)
Replaced the removed zMenu NmsVersion enum with the new MinecraftVersion API for version detection and NMS package resolution (NmsVersionUtils)
