for some reason the isSpectator() call here can take upwards of 2 microseconds, for no obvious reason. Subsequent calls are much faster, so I think there's some weird cache thing going on here.
a couple of usages of properties that no longer exist couldn't be migrated.
in addition, this revealed a couple of dead properties in the default file.
this is not an ideal solution (I'd much rather model the configs using classes and map them) but in the absence of a good and reliable library to do that, this is the next best thing.
For blocks, we now use 'block-item state' and 'block-only state', which should be much clearer for people implementing custom stuff.
'block-item state', as the name suggests, sticks to the item when the block is acquired as an item.
'block-only state' applies only to the block and is discarded when the block is acquired as an item.
'type data' for items was also renamed, since 'type' is too ambiguous to be anything but super confusing.
this doesn't support editing the rear side of a sign, since the 1.12 format doesn't allow us to represent the rear text, and it would necessitate API breaks to support anyway.
However, we can quite trivially support APIs for the sign GUI, which plugins can use to enable editing signs. PocketMine-MP doesn't currently permit this, since it's currently an experimental feature in 1.20, but plugins can simply use Player->openSignEditor() to mimic it.
This is, however, a byproduct of the fact that APIs needed to be added in order to facilitate the use of OpenSignPacket in 1.19.80.
This API is much more flexible than the old, allowing any arbitrary set of chunks to be ticked.
These changes also improve the performance of random chunk ticking by almost entirely eliminating the cost of chunk selection. Ticking chunks are now reevaluated when a player moves, instead of every tick.
The system also does not attempt to check the same chunks twice, leading to further improvements.
Overall, the overhead of random chunk selection is reduced anywhere from 80-96%. In practice, this can offer a 5-10% performance gain for servers with sparsely distributed players.
this API is simultaneously more powerful and cleaner than the previous system.
The previous system relied on undocumented behaviour and was limited to non-localizable strings.
This enables custom servers to implement their own chat formats (e.g. containing localizable tags) which will be displayed in each player's own language (once per-player language has been properly implemented, anyway).
this allows localizing disconnection screens (at least, once #4512 has been addressed) and the disconnect reasons shown on the console.
We already had disconnect messages implicitly localized in a few places, so this is just formalizing it.
This does break BC with any code that previously passed translation keys as the disconnect screen message, because they'll no longer be translated (only Translatables will be translatated now).
