Added disclaimer to PlotSettings.

This class is not and never has been proper API.

Core/src/main/java/com/plotsquared/core/command/Auto.java

@@ -142,14 +142,6 @@ public class Auto extends SubCommand {
                 }
             }
         }
-        int maxMerge = Permissions.hasPermissionRange(player, Permission.PERMISSION_MERGE, Settings.Limit.MAX_PLOTS);
-        if (sizeX * sizeZ > maxMerge) {
-            player.sendMessage(
-                    TranslatableCaption.of("permission.no_permission"),
-                    Template.of("node", Permission.PERMISSION_MERGE + "." + (sizeX * sizeZ))
-            );
-            return false;
-        }
         return true;
     }
 

Core/src/main/java/com/plotsquared/core/command/Merge.java

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ public class Merge extends SubCommand {
             return false;
         }
         final int size = plot.getConnectedPlots().size();
-        int max = Permissions.hasPermissionRange(player, Permission.PERMISSION_MERGE, Settings.Limit.MAX_PLOTS);
+        int max = Permissions.hasPermissionRange(player, "plots.merge", Settings.Limit.MAX_PLOTS);
         PlotMergeEvent event =
                 this.eventDispatcher.callMerge(plot, direction, max, player);
         if (event.getEventResult() == Result.DENY) {
@@ -282,7 +282,28 @@ public class Merge extends SubCommand {
                 run.run();
             }
         }
-        if (!force && !isOnline) {
+        if (force || !isOnline) {
+            if (force || Permissions.hasPermission(player, Permission.PERMISSION_ADMIN_COMMAND_MERGE_OTHER_OFFLINE)) {
+                if (plot.getPlotModificationManager().autoMerge(direction, maxSize - size, uuids.iterator().next(), player, terrain)) {
+                    if (this.econHandler.isEnabled(plotArea) && price > 0d) {
+                        if (!force && this.econHandler.getMoney(player) < price) {
+                            player.sendMessage(
+                                    TranslatableCaption.of("economy.cannot_afford_merge"),
+                                    Template.of("money", this.econHandler.format(price))
+                            );
+                            return false;
+                        }
+                        this.econHandler.withdrawMoney(player, price);
+                        player.sendMessage(
+                                TranslatableCaption.of("economy.removed_balance"),
+                                Template.of("money", this.econHandler.format(price))
+                        );
+                    }
+                    player.sendMessage(TranslatableCaption.of("merge.success_merge"));
+                    eventDispatcher.callPostMerge(player, plot);
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
             player.sendMessage(TranslatableCaption.of("merge.no_available_automerge"));
             return false;
         }

Core/src/main/java/com/plotsquared/core/generator/HybridUtils.java

@@ -234,8 +234,19 @@ public class HybridUtils {
                         Set<BlockType> types = new HashSet<>();
                         for (int yIndex = 0; yIndex < height; yIndex++) {
                             BlockState old = oldBlocks[yIndex][x][z]; // Nullable
-                            try {
                             BlockState now = newBlocks[yIndex][x][z]; // Not null
+                            if (now == null) {
+                                throw new NullPointerException(String.format(
+                                        "\"now\" block null attempting to perform plot analysis. Indexes: x=%d of %d, yIndex=%d" +
+                                                " of %d, z=%d of %d",
+                                        x,
+                                        width,
+                                        yIndex,
+                                        height,
+                                        z,
+                                        length
+                                ));
+                            }
                             if (!now.equals(old) && !(old == null && now.getBlockType().equals(BlockTypes.AIR))) {
                                 changes[i]++;
                             }
@@ -270,9 +281,6 @@ public class HybridUtils {
                                 }
                                 types.add(now.getBlockType());
                             }
-                            } catch (NullPointerException e) {
-                                e.printStackTrace();
-                            }
                         }
                         variety[i] = types.size();
                         i++;

Core/src/main/java/com/plotsquared/core/permissions/Permission.java

@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ public enum Permission {
     PERMISSION_LIST_AREA("plots.list.area"),
     PERMISSION_ADMIN_COMMAND_LOAD("plots.admin.command.load"),
     PERMISSION_ADMIN_COMMAND_MERGE("plots.admin.command.merge"),
+    PERMISSION_ADMIN_COMMAND_MERGE_OTHER_OFFLINE("plots.admin.command.merge.other.offline"),
     PERMISSION_ADMIN_COMMAND_SET_OWNER("plots.admin.command.setowner"),
     PERMISSION_COMMENT("plots.comment"),
     PERMISSION_INBOX("plots.inbox"),

Core/src/main/java/com/plotsquared/core/plot/PlotSettings.java

@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ import java.util.UUID;
  * Generic settings class.
  * - Does not keep a reference to a parent class
  * - Direct changes here will not occur in the db (Use the parent plot object for that)
+ * This class is not part of the API and may change at any time. It is recommended to use equivalent methods in the Plot class.
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class PlotSettings {
 
     /**

build.gradle.kts

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ plugins {
 }
 
 group = "com.plotsquared"
-version = "6.10.4"
+version = "6.10.6-SNAPSHOT"
 
 subprojects {
     group = rootProject.group
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ subprojects {
     }
 
     dependencies {
-        implementation(platform("com.intellectualsites.bom:bom-1.18.x:1.18"))
+        implementation(platform("com.intellectualsites.bom:bom-1.18.x:1.20"))
     }
 
     dependencies {

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

gradlew

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ do
     esac
 done
 
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
+# This is normally unused
-
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
@@ -143,12 +143,16 @@ fi
 if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045 
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC3045 
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac

gradlew.bat

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
 if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%