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When a nonlethal knockout cannot run /crawl, RPCharacters currently retries the command every tick and floods the player with rejection messages. Knockouts now use GSit’s crawl API directly, keep the player down for the knockout duration, and release the pose on recovery, death, disconnect, game-mode changes, or shutdown.

The integration bypasses command restrictions while respecting event vetoes, preserves pre-existing crawl sessions on recovery, and restores crawling after interruptions. GSit remains optional; freeze and blindness still work without it.

Validation: 272 tests pass with mvn clean verify; regression tests cover command-free enforcement, prevention of getting up, interrupted crawling, crawl ownership, and cleanup. Local diff review completed; both CodeRabbit findings were addressed with regression tests. The GSit 3.2.0 JAR installed on both servers exposes every API method/event used here. In-game visuals remain to be checked.

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  • New Features

    • Knocked-out players are kept in a crawl pose when GSit is available. Other plugins can still veto crawl attempts, and recovery only ends a crawl started by the knockout system.
    • Without GSit, knockouts continue to use freezing and blindness. Knockouts are also released when a player quits or dies, and during server shutdown.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified how knockout crawling interacts with command restrictions, other plugins’ crawl vetoes, and recovery.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds an optional GSit integration that holds knocked-out players in a crawl pose and releases only crawls started by the knockout listener. Without GSit, the manager logs that the crawl pose is unavailable.

Changes

Knockout crawl behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
GSit setup and crawl ownership
pom.xml, src/main/resources/plugin.yml, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/rpcharacters/pvp/KnockoutCrawl.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/rpcharacters/pvp/PvpKnockoutManagerTest.java
The project declares GSit as a provided dependency and soft dependency. The listener tracks crawls it starts, respects other crawl vetoes, and stops only its tracked crawl when GSit still maps the player to that instance. Tests cover crawl event rules and ownership.
Knockout lifecycle and crawl enforcement
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/rpcharacters/pvp/PvpKnockoutManager.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/rpcharacters/pvp/PvpKnockoutManagerTest.java, README.md
The manager registers the listener when GSit is enabled, enforces crawling during knockouts, and releases knockout state on lifecycle and tick conditions. Tests cover enforcement and release paths. The README describes the crawl behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PvpKnockoutManager
  participant KnockoutCrawl
  participant GSit
  PvpKnockoutManager->>KnockoutCrawl: enforce(player)
  KnockoutCrawl->>GSit: start crawl if needed
  GSit-->>KnockoutCrawl: return crawl instance
  PvpKnockoutManager->>KnockoutCrawl: release(player)
  KnockoutCrawl->>GSit: stop tracked instance if still mapped
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b62b8

Recovery preserves crawls that existed before the knockout or replaced its crawl. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b62b8

The new crawl integration is limited to knockouts and normally releases only the pose it started. Review is warranted because a nonlethal knockout can now offer the attacker a further combat decision, and an uncommon cleanup path may leave pose ownership unresolved.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A newly added call lets a qualifying nonlethal knockout open an attacker-controlled strike decision; the existing decision prompt can include kill. Whether that outcome belongs in this change's nonlethal policy needs confirmation.
  • Low · reliability · inferred: If a knocked-out player cannot be resolved, tick or shutdown discards knockout state without releasing the crawl recorded for that player. A persistent pose depends on GSit's separate cleanup behavior, which is not established here.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The visible reach is an individual player's knockout and, for an active PvP-start session, that victim's pending strike decision—not an unrestricted server-wide crawl control.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A player with an active character who lands a qualifying nonlethal blow during a PvP-start session can now reach the strike-decision path. Whether its later choices conflict with the intended nonlethal rule is unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Crawl-stop cancellation is gated by an unexpired knockout and the manager's exclusion checks. Cleanup checks exact Crawl identity before stopping a pose, protecting pre-existing or replacement crawls on the normal release path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Failure to resolve a Player leaves cleanup of any GSit-owned pose to GSit's independent lifecycle handling; repository source does not establish that external guarantee.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Confirm that opening a strike or kill decision after a nonlethal knockout is intended, and establish a cleanup contract for recorded crawls when no Player object can be resolved.
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A rabbit watches players crawl,
GSit returns the tracked call.
Knockout starts the pose in place,
Recovery frees its own crawl space.
Other crawls remain untouched,
While ears applaud the careful clutch.

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In @src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/rpcharacters/pvp/KnockoutCrawl.java:
- Around line 34-36: Update KnockoutCrawl’s applyKnockout, enforce, and release
flow to track whether a crawl existed before the knockout, and stop the current
crawl on recovery only if the knockout created it. Add a recovery test covering
a player who is already crawling when the knockout begins.
- Around line 40-46: Remove the onStartCrawl listener from KnockoutCrawl so it
no longer clears PrePlayerCrawlEvent cancellations from other listeners. Update
the test that treats arbitrary cancellation as a voluntary-crawl restriction;
retain coverage of compulsory crawling through
forcesCrawlWithoutCommandAndMaintainsFreeze.

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Released RPCharacters 2.8.2 from merged commit 47efd2f3aaa8ac11aa4fae416088ff39a5abe2b5.

  • Both CodeRabbit findings addressed, threads resolved, updated commit approved; CI and release verification passed (272 tests).
  • Release JAR, embedded version, source commit, and SHA-256 verified. Both installed JARs match the published release.
  • Dev restarted: GSit 3.2.0 and RPCharacters 2.8.2 enabled; server ready at 23:44:47 UTC on 2026-09-26. Minecraft status responds. No new startup ERROR messages or RPCharacters/GSit warnings versus the captured previous startup.
  • Main: 2.8.2 installed without restart or reload. Java PID 1830776 and process start time unchanged; Minecraft status responds. The new version activates at the next restart.
  • Previous JARs backed up under /home/ryan/rpcharacters-knockout-2.8.2-release/backup/{TFMCDev01,TFMCMain01} on tf-hetzner.

Forced-crawl behavior is covered by regression tests; no live player knockdown playtest was performed.

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