Changelog

1.3.1

• Simplified ward-ring visibility: placement previews and enabled wards show their ring, while disabled wards remain hidden unless highlighted as the closest placement blocker.
• Removed the unused per-ward marker-visibility state and the settings-response overlap-feedback flag from the exact-version settings protocol while retaining authoritative radius clamping and the normal placement-conflict warning/highlight path.
• Preserved registered-player identity snapshots when offline lookups are unavailable and removed quadratic recent-player filtering.
• Rejected oversized or invalid server YAML safely, bounded report and minimap payloads, and preserved the last valid client minimap snapshot when the server exceeds the supported ward count.
• Simplified runtime RPC ownership, player-list UI construction, and local deployment while making release packaging stage the manifest without modifying the tracked source file.
• This wire format is not backward compatible; servers and all clients must update to STUWard 1.3.1 together.

1.3.0

• Expanded the second-page behavior labels and arranged ward alert sound, ward alert visual effect, ward-range rotation, and door auto-close in a two-column grid. Range rotation defaults to on at 50% of the native marker speed.
• Added a server-authoritative, per-world list of characters seen within the last fourteen days so trusted players can add them directly to a ward. Records previously pruned by the shorter retention policy cannot be recovered retroactively.
• Restored the two-page Ward Settings layout: player management on the first page, behavior toggles and restrictions on the second, with independent scrolling lists.
• Removed confirmation popups from ward dismantling, trusted-player removal, and ward activation changes; authorized actions now apply immediately.
• Removed disabled-ward outsider self-registration and its stale vanilla opt-in/opt-out hover prompts. Trusted players now manage individual ward registration from Ward Settings.
• Recent-player history starts with this release and is not imported from logs or older STUWard data.
• Added a local full-brightness ward-ring cue that pulses for 0.5 seconds when crossing and remains active while standing within 0.75m of the boundary.
• Added a client-only boundary brightness scope setting for trusted wards, untrusted wards, all wards, or off; placement conflicts independently highlight the closest blocking ward ring for 1.5 seconds.
• Added guild, public platform account IDs, and online/last-seen status to player rows, plus independent local search fields for the registered and unregistered lists.
• Made generated STUWard.yml ward-limit examples directly uncommentable under the active ward_limit_overrides mapping.

1.2.9

• Unified existing-ward permissions for owners, individually trusted players, same-guild members, and admin+debug users.
• Added confirmation prompts before removing an individually trusted player, dismantling a ward, or deactivating a ward.
• Made new wards automatically use the largest legal radius up to the server maximum, yielding to older foreign wards.
• Fixed ward marker speed and brightness at their minimum settings and removed all three marker sliders.
• Simplified door auto-close to a per-ward on/off switch with one shared fixed delay of 5 seconds.
• Fixed the one-page restrictions grid failing to build because its ScrollView still had Jotunn's default vertical layout component.
• Removed the legacy ward-settings payload and door-delay migration path; servers and clients must update together.
• Combined warning toggles, individually trusted players, and the two-column restrictions grid on one page with independent scrolling blocks.

1.2.8

• Fixed revoked admin+debug access remaining cached and stopped treating cross-platform accounts with the same numeric suffix as the same administrator.
• Fixed Guilds membership and ward projection refreshes, including stale join/leave data and prefixed or bare Steam account IDs, while keeping other platform identities distinct.
• Fixed host-only and temporarily deferred ward minimap refreshes so local pins update without remote peers and queued server refreshes retry after index preparation.
• Reworked automatic pickup protection to run the vanilla AutoPickup method while temporarily excluding denied drops, with exception-safe item-state restoration.
• Made temporary interaction, portal, and pickup restriction scopes exception-safe so failed calls cannot affect later ward access checks.
• Fixed valid empty permitted-player snapshots being treated as invalid and bounded snapshot backfill work for stale or malformed entries.
• Hardened managed-ward placement and minimap snapshot RPCs with malformed-packet checks, request throttling, and bounded pending queues.
• Changed newly generated STUWard.yml files to use empty ward_limit_overrides; sample Steam account entries are now comments instead of active mappings.

1.2.7

• Fixed ward activation and deactivation VFX/SFX on dedicated servers by assigning the single networked effect spawn to the requesting client after server authorization.

1.2.6

• Added a server-side prefab fallback for ward toggle effects when no live ward instance was loaded.

1.2.5

• Fixed networked ward activation and deactivation effects multiplying by the number of nearby players.
• Simplified blocked-action warnings to flash only the nearest denying ward and coalesced each ward's warning effects into a 0.5-second client cooldown.

1.2.4

• Simplified authoritative ward-limit counting to scan only STUWard prefabs.
• Removed redundant global ZDO placement tracking and diagnostic logging configuration.
• Reduced diagnostic-only state and synchronization plumbing while preserving ward access behavior.

1.2.3

• Fixed ward owner and admin+debug controls on dedicated servers when another peer owns the ward ZDO.
• Restored authoritative per-account ward limit enforcement across world and zone loading.
• Routed managed ward settings, enabled state, and permitted-player changes through the server.

1.2.2

• Fixed automatic pickup and ward removal checks to follow each ward's effective restriction and owner-control rules.
• Hardened server-authoritative guild, RPC, map-state, and permitted-player synchronization.
• Made core Harmony patch startup transactional and simplified duplicated config, map-state, registry, and snapshot code.

1.2.1

• Added per-ward restriction toggles with server-side forced/not-forced controls.
• Separated hammer-placed consumable and feast consumption from normal item pickup.
• Simplified hostile creature structure protection config surface.
• Cleaned up ConfigManager ordering, patch safety, UI layout, and diagnostic logging.

1.2.0

• Refactoring and optimizations.

1.1.9

• Fixed errors that could happen with floating itemdrops within the ward area.

1.1.8

• Refactored some codes.

1.1.7

• Added config option for hostile creature to not damage warded pieces always.

1.1.6

• Fixed ward icons sometimes not showing on map on dedi.

1.1.5

• TSV file is no longer needed, and YAML files are integrated into one STUWard.yml.
• Organized configs.
• Refactored some codes for better performance.

1.1.4

• Fixed wards not being able to place close enough to each other.
• Fixed ward range not showing on map.
• Fixed some guild related bugs.

1.1.3

• Fixed guild members not having authorities on guild wards on dedi.
• Updated README with more specific info.

1.1.2

• Fixed some errors that would happen when placing ward.
• Resolved framedrop while holding preview of the ward.
• Players can view ward icons even though they didn't load the zone after server reboot.
• Ward circle projection segment count was reduced to 36 from 80.
• Refactored some per-check codes.

1.1.1

• Admin+debug mode has the same authority as the ward owner.
• Added ward icon and range on map and minimap for guild members, registered players, and owners.

1.1.0

• Added server-synced BepInEx/config/STUWard.ItemPrefabs.yml for item prefab policy.
• Added Pickup Block Mode config: BlockAllExceptWhitelist and AllowAllExceptBlacklist.

1.0.9

• Fixed some guild related behaviors.

1.0.8

• Reduced some excessive logs that could happen on dedi.

1.0.7

• Fixed the E button not working on dedi.
• Fixed guild related behaviors on dedi.

1.0.6

• Improved overall performance.

1.0.5

• Changed the method of E button appearing on players.

1.0.4

• Fixed the E button not working on server.

1.0.3

• Pieces within active area don't get damage from mobs when no trusted player is near ward area.

1.0.2

• Fixed guild players not having authorities on guild wards on dedi.
• Fixed debug mode not working for the ward on dedi.
• Made it so that players and tamed animals won't damage pieces within the protected area.
• Feasts are no longer consumable within the ward area.

1.0.1

• Only the owner and debug admin can remove the ward.
• The ward itself is invulnerable to damage.

1.0.0

• Initial release.