KyoriPowered/adventure v4.0.0

🌏 Adventure 4.0.0

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Adventure 4.0.0 is a leap forward for the library previously known as Text. Adventure is a cross-platform library that is designed to simplify using Minecraft: Java Edition user-interface elements across all the major platforms. It also adds support for the latest Minecraft: Java Edition version features to ensure you can develop the best adventures your plugin or server possibly can!

The shiny new things ❇️

• Documentation, available at https://docs.adventure.kyori.net/
• a new Audience framework
  • entry point for displaying/sending content (messages, boss bars, titles, sounds) to viewers, such as a player or the server console
  • a standard interface for platforms to implement, useful for cross-platform development
• ability to create and display a BossBar
• ability to create and display a Title
• ability to play a Sound
• ability to use the Translator framework for using custom "server-side translations" in any Component-based content

The refactors 🔧

• The package has moved from net.kyori.text to net.kyori.adventure.text
• of and builder methods in Component interfaces have moved to the Component interface - for example:
  • TextComponent.of("foo") becomes Component.text("foo")
  • TextComponent.builder().content("foo") becomes Component.text().content("foo")
• RGB colour support via TextColor
  • The standard colours, previously in TextColor, can be found in NamedTextColor
• changes to HoverEvent required to support Minecraft 1.16

Platform support 🗼

• Bukkit (and forks, such as Paper and Spigot) has a platform adapter available
• BungeeCord has a platform adapter available
• Fabric has a platform adapter available
• SpongeAPI 7.x has a platform adapter available
• SpongeAPI 8.x has native Adventure support - no platform adapter is required
• Velocity 1.1.x has native Adventure support - no platform adapter is required