# About

NightCore is a lightweight library that provides a wide set of utilities to make plugin development faster and more efficient.

This library is required for all NightExpress's plugins.

# Features

✅ Features Included:

✅ Software Compatibility: Spigot and Paper compatible.
✅ Commands API: Brigadier-like command API, but less tedious and with custom argument support.
✅ Component API: Create and use custom text components in messages, GUIs, dialogs, items, etc.
✅ Config API: Read and write custom config files with ease.
✅ Database API: Handle SQLite and MySQL databases with SQL query builders and data synchronization across multiple servers.
✅ Dialogs API: Create and show custom dialogs for players.
✅ Economy Integrations. Handle custom currencies from various plugins with ease.
✅ Item Integrations. Handle custom items from various plugins with ease.
✅ Permission Integrations. Handle player's permission data from any permission plugin.
✅ Language API: Flexible, highly customizable and powerful language API.
✅ Manager API: Custom manager classes with built-in support for Listeners, Menus and Tasks.
✅ Menu API: Inventory GUIs with config support and dynamic content.
✅ Block Tracker: Track blocks placed by players using the native MC's chunk data container.
✅ Bukkit Wrappers: A bunch of wrappers for bukkit objects (ItemStack, Sound, BukkitTask, etc) that are pleasure to work with.
✅ Player Utils: Send messages, dispatch commands, add inventory items to players.
✅ Entity Utils: Modify entity's attributes and equipment.
✅ Location Utils: Utilities to work with cuboids, locations, block and chunk positions.
✅ Number Utils: Parse, round, and format integers, doubles and floats with ease.
✅ Placeholder Utils: Replace custom placeholders in any string fast.
✅ Profile Utils: Handle player's profiles properly without spamming the Mojang API.
✅ Random Utils: A better Random implementation with various utility methods.
✅ Time Utils: Utilities to format and convert time and date.
✅ Item Utils: Decode and encode ItemStack to/from NBT tags.
✅ Enum Utils: Simple enum parser util.
✅ String Utils: String format utils.
✅ PDC Utils: Utilities to work with the PersistentDataContainer.
✅ Reflection Utils: Small reflection helper.

❌ Completely Excluded:

❌ Garbage libraries like XSeries.
❌ Metrics or data collectors (we respect privacy).
❌ Update checkers (who needs another useless notifications?).
❌ DRM systems.
❌ Advertisement.

# System Requirements

Server Software: Spigot or Paper
Server Version: 1.21.1 or above
Java Version: 21 or above
Folia Supported: No
Forge Supported: No

# Links

# Plugins

Plugins powered by NightCore.

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