True Combat Manager

Professional combat tracking with interactive GUIs, persistent statistics, dual grace period protection, and modern Minecraft server optimization.

Overview

True Combat Manager is a feature-rich combat management system designed for competitive Minecraft PvP servers. It focuses on accurate combat detection, preventing PvP abuse, providing clear player feedback, interactive statistics GUIs, and persistent data tracking.

✨ What's New in v1.2.1

Dual Grace Period System

The disconnect protection system has been completely overhauled.

• Bad-internet grace period — longer, more lenient window for players who lost connection unexpectedly. Detected automatically from the quit reason.
• Intentional grace period — shorter window for players who pressed Disconnect or closed the game.
• Each type has its own grace-seconds, messages, and can be enabled/disabled independently.

Repeat-Logout Abuse Prevention

• Tracks each player's disconnect history in a rolling time window.
• If a player disconnects too many times within the window, they are killed immediately on the next logout — no grace period.
• Fully configurable: max-count, window-seconds, messages.

Bypass-Totem Config

• bypass-totem: true (default) — punishment kills bypass the Totem of Undying.
• bypass-totem: false — a held totem can proc and save the player.

Per-Player Theme Persistence

• Theme selections saved to the database and restored across sessions.
• /combat toggle-style works both in and out of combat.

Sound Profile Hot-Reload

• /combat reload now correctly updates sound profiles without a restart.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed inventory duplication (armor dropped twice due to getContents() including armor slots)
• Fixed double bossbar on reconnect
• Fixed player not killed after grace period (config loaded before ConfigManager was ready)
• Fixed concurrent update race in player data
• Fixed plugin.getConfig() stale after reload

Core Features

Combat System

• Real-time combat detection
• Dual grace period disconnect protection (bad-internet vs intentional)
• Repeat-logout abuse prevention with kill-on-login
• Lag compensation using server TPS
• Thread-safe combat architecture

Interactive GUI System

• Player Stats GUI — overall record, damage stats, combat stats
• Weapon Stats GUI — per-weapon breakdown (swords, axes, ranged)
• Server Overview GUI — admin panel with network-wide statistics
• Fully configurable via gui.yml
• Back buttons and seamless navigation

Database System

• SQLite (default, no setup required)
• MySQL for larger networks
• Persistent player statistics and theme preferences
• Automatic database migration

Smart Restrictions

• Ender pearl cooldown control
• Trident usage restrictions
• Elytra combat limitations
• Golden apple cooldown system
• Teleport command blocking
• Safezone protection support

Visual Interface

• 6 built-in themes with per-player persistence
• BossBar combat indicators
• ActionBar status display
• 6 sound profiles with hot-reload
• HEX color customization

Protection Systems

• Newbie protection for unarmored players
• Timed immunity system with admin commands
• WorldGuard safe zone integration
• Configurable bypass permissions

Disconnect Protection Flow

Grace period expires, player still offline:

1. Inventory dropped at disconnect location immediately
2. Win/loss recorded, opponent notified and rewarded
3. pendingPunishments entry stored — player killed on next login

Player rejoins with pending punishment:

1. Live inventory cleared
2. Player killed (totem bypass configurable)
3. Opponent receives reminder message

Commands

Player Commands

/combat status              - View your combat status
/combat stats               - Open your combat statistics GUI
/combat summary             - View latest fight summary
/combat toggle-style        - Change visual theme (works anytime)

Admin Commands

/combat reload              - Reload configuration
/combat inspect <player>    - View real-time combat info
/combat summary <player>    - Open player's stats GUI
/combatadmin stats          - Open server statistics GUI
/combat clear <player>      - Force-end combat
/combat protection <player> <seconds> - Grant immunity
/combat debug               - Toggle debug mode
/combat logging <on|off>    - Toggle console logging

Configuration Example

combat:
  duration: 10
  disconnect-protection:
    enabled: true
    bad-internet:
      grace-seconds: 30
    intentional:
      grace-seconds: 10
    repeat-logout:
      enabled: true
      max-count: 2
      window-seconds: 240
    punishment:
      drop-inventory: true
      bypass-totem: true

visual:
  themes:
    default-theme: "clean"
  sounds:
    profile: "default"

database:
  type: "sqlite"

logging:
  console-enabled: false

All settings reload instantly with /combat reload.

PlaceholderAPI Support

%pvpcombat_in_combat%
%pvpcombat_time_left%
%pvpcombat_opponent%
%pvpcombat_wins%
%pvpcombat_losses%
%pvpcombat_kd_ratio%
%pvpcombat_win_rate%
%pvpcombat_total_damage_dealt%
%pvpcombat_total_damage_received%

Installation

1. Download the plugin JAR
2. Place it inside the plugins folder
3. Restart the server
4. Configure settings if needed
5. Run /combat reload

No additional setup required — SQLite works out of the box.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.18+ · Java 17+ (21 recommended) · Paper or Spigot

Optional: PlaceholderAPI · WorldGuard · ProtocolLib

Support

https://github.com/muzlik-gm/True-Combat-Manager/issues

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