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Problem

Orb hits (weapon attunement at the station, and meditation) are checked against the orb's position at the moment the swing reaches the server. A player sees each orb about half their ping late, and their click arrives another half ping later. So at 200 ms the orb has moved about 4 ticks past what they aimed at. Good orbs move ~0.17 blocks/tick and rift orbs about twice that, while the hit radius is 0.5, so high-ping players miss orbs they clearly hit on screen.

Change

  • New util/OrbTrail: a 20-tick ring buffer of each orb's positions, filled in setLocation (called once per tick by the orbit step).
  • Both hitscans now test each orb at the two frames either side of the player's ping (Player#getPing() / 50 ms, floor and ceil), and keep the nearest hit. The block line-of-sight check is unchanged.
  • The rewind is capped by the new max_rewind_ticks (default 10 = 500 ms) in gear/orbs.yml and config.yml → meditation. Set it to 0 to turn the feature off. Existing live configs don't need the key; the code default applies.
  • The meditation start orb follows the player's aim, so it is always judged at its current position.

Why this doesn't make it easier for everyone

The hit radius, orb speeds, lifetimes, and targets are unchanged. Compensation only shifts where a click is judged, by that player's own ping. Under 50 ms ping you get the current and previous tick, which covers tick-phase jitter. At 0 ms only the current position counts. A high-ping player gets a target at the right place, not a bigger one. Rift orbs are rewound the same way, so mis-clicks still count.

Testing

  • mvn clean package builds locally.
  • Deployed to TFMCDev01: see the comment below.

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  • New Features
    • Orb clicks now account for player latency by checking recent orb positions, improving hit registration for gear and meditation orbs.
    • Added a configurable rewind limit for both orb types, defaulting to 10 ticks. Set the limit to 0 to disable rewind.

Orb hits were tested against the orb's position when the swing reached the server.
A player with 200 ms ping sees the orb and clicks about one round trip behind it, so
fast orbs had moved past the 0.5 hit radius and the click missed.

Keep the last 20 ticks of each orb's path and test the click against the frames
matching the player's ping (the tick either side), up to max_rewind_ticks (10 = 500 ms).
Low-ping players are judged at the current position as before, and the hit radius
and orb speeds are unchanged. Applies to both the weapon attunement orbs and the
meditation orbs; the meditation start orb still follows the aim as now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Gear and meditation orbs now record location history. Their hitscan services check historical orb positions at ping-based rewind offsets. Each system has a configurable maximum rewind tick value.

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Orb click rewind

Layer / File(s) Summary
Orb trails and rewind limits
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/util/OrbTrail.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/gear/orb/OrbCache.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/meditation/MeditationCache.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/loader/ConfigLoader.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/loader/GearLoader.java, src/main/resources/config.yml, src/main/resources/gear/orbs.yml
OrbTrail stores up to 20 cloned positions and calculates rewind offsets from ping. Gear and meditation settings default to 10 ticks. Configuration loading clamps configured limits to zero or greater.
Orb location history
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/gear/orb/GearOrb.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/meditation/MeditationOrb.java
Both orb types record updated locations and provide historical-location accessors. Meditation starter orbs return their current location.
Historical-position hitscan
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/gear/orb/GearOrbService.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/meditation/MeditationService.java
Both hitscan services check historical orb positions at the player’s rewind offsets. They retain existing range, hit-radius, and nearest-orb checks, and skip invalid or cross-world locations.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Player
  participant GearOrbService
  participant MeditationService
  participant OrbTrail
  participant GearOrb
  participant MeditationOrb
  GearOrbService->>OrbTrail: Calculate offsets from player ping and max rewind ticks
  MeditationService->>OrbTrail: Calculate offsets from player ping and max rewind ticks
  OrbTrail-->>GearOrbService: Return rewind offsets
  OrbTrail-->>MeditationService: Return rewind offsets
  GearOrbService->>GearOrb: Request location at each offset
  MeditationService->>MeditationOrb: Request location at each offset
  GearOrb-->>GearOrbService: Return historical location or current location
  MeditationOrb-->>MeditationService: Return historical location or current location
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 6146f

Gear and meditation clicks use per-tick position history with safe handling for unavailable frames; no concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed change.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6146f

The change deliberately accepts clicks against recent orb positions, but limits the rewind and retains the existing distance and line-of-sight checks. No material security issue was established; some runtime and external-caller behavior remains unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed acceptance rule is confined in the checked paths to players' gear and meditation orb interactions. A player's measured ping selects eligible frames, but neither path gains a new privilege or bypasses its geometric and block-occlusion checks.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The player supplies the click and aim; server-observed ping determines bounded history offsets. Candidate selection is restricted to living orbs, and the checked hitscans retain world, distance, radius and block-line-of-sight enforcement.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — ticksAgo returns the stored mutable Location rather than a clone. Checked hitscan consumers read it without mutation, so this is an ownership consideration for future callers, not an established exploit in these paths.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Return a defensive copy from historical lookup if the public utility may gain other consumers, so a caller cannot alter positions used by later hit decisions.
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A rabbit checks the orb’s old track,
Then finds the point a tick or two back.
With ping in mind, the trails align,
Ten ticks are set as the default line.
Gear and meditation share the way,
While history guides the click today.

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Dev test: deployed this branch's build (magic-DEV-orb-ping.jar) to TFMCDev01 and restarted. Enabling Magic vmain-SNAPSHOT → Configs loaded. → Magic enabled., server reached Done (35.510s). No Magic errors (only the existing cerrith.flowers unknown tag 'tall_flowers' warning). Old dev jar magic-DEV-20260926-1923.jar kept in ~/dev-jar-backup/.

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Review comments at @src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/util/OrbTrail.java:
- Around line 41-42: Update OrbTrail.ticksAgo to return null when the requested
history index is unavailable instead of clamping to the oldest sample. Preserve
null in the past-location getters of GearOrb and MeditationOrb, and make
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Comment thread src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/util/OrbTrail.java Outdated
A late click could rewind past an orb's first tick and was then judged at its oldest
recorded position, a frame the player never saw. Return no frame instead and skip it.

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Fixed in 72e8c74: OrbTrail.ticksAgo now returns null past the orb's first frame and both hitscans skip it. Redeployed to TFMCDev01: Enabling Magic vmain-SNAPSHOT → Magic enabled. → Done (33.579s), no Magic errors. @coderabbitai review

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🟡 Minor · Include age 0 for exact tick boundaries. · OrbTrail.java:54-60

src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/magic/util/OrbTrail.java:54-60
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Include age 0 for exact tick boundaries.

When pingMs is exactly 50 ms, rewindTicks returns {1, 1}. Both hitscan services then query only age 1. A newly spawned non-starter orb has only age 0, so ticksAgo(1) returns null and both services skip the orb.

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-        return new int[] {low, high};
+        int lower = low == high ? Math.max(0, low - 1) : low;
+        return new int[] {lower, high};
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Update OrbTrail.rewindTicks so exact tick boundaries include the immediately
younger age: when low equals high, return a lower age of max(0, low - 1)
alongside high; preserve the current range for fractional tick values.

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- Around line 54-60: Update OrbTrail.rewindTicks so exact tick boundaries
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At exactly 50 or 100 ms the rewind asked for one frame only, so a click was judged
against a single frame and a freshly spawned orb could be skipped. Also check the
newer neighbouring frame.

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Applied the outside-diff finding in 6146fbd: rewindTicks now also checks the newer frame when ping is a whole number of ticks (50 ms → [0, 1], 100 ms → [1, 2]; 0 ms stays [0, 0]). Builds locally. @coderabbitai review

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