Storage

Player progress is stored in flat files, one per player, in plugins/zQuestRank/playerdata/<uuid>.yml. No database needed.

What is stored

• The player's current rank.
• Progress numbers for each quest of the current rank.
• Which of those quests are completed.

Progress always belongs to the current rank. When a player claims a rank (or an admin uses setrank), the quest progress resets and the next rank starts fresh. Finished ranks stay finished; the plugin only needs to remember where the player currently stands.

When it saves

• Data loads when a player joins and unloads when they leave.
• Every progress change saves in the background, so a crash loses next to nothing.
• Everything saves on server shutdown.

Progress survives relogs, restarts, and plugin updates.

Resetting a player

• /rank admin resetquests <player> wipes the quest progress of their current rank.
• /rank admin setrank <player> <number> moves them to any rank (also resets the quest progress, since it belongs to the new rank).
• Deleting a player's file in playerdata/ while they are offline resets them completely to rank one.

See Commands for the admin command details.