- Removed references to removed duck types (concrete, diamond, explosive, etc.)
- Removed references to removed items (sniper rifle, duck radar, etc.)
- Updated to show only 3 duck types: normal, golden, fast
- Documented current commands and features
- Added Recent Updates section
- Cleaned up and organized for clarity
- Removed new duck types (concrete, diamond, holy_grail, explosive, poisonous, etc.)
- Removed new shop items (sniper rifle, duck radar, bread, splash water, etc.)
- Removed status effects system (eliminated, poisoned, wet, etc.)
- Removed item drops and temporary effects
- Kept only original 3 duck types: normal, golden, fast
- Kept original simple shop
- KEPT BUG FIX: Golden duck XP now awarded on each hit
- KEPT BUG FIX: Message sanitization preserves IRC codes
- Simpler, more stable bot with core improvements
- Bot messages containing IRC color codes were being completely stripped
- sanitize_user_input() without allowed_chars was removing all formatting
- Changed to only remove CR/LF from messages while preserving formatting codes
- This was causing silent failures where no messages were sent to channel
- Fixed issue where players weren't getting XP when hitting (but not killing) multi-HP ducks
- XP was calculated but never added to player's total
- This bug could cause bot failures with new multi-HP duck types
- Now properly awards XP on each hit and saves to database
- Reduced retry interval from 30 to 20 seconds for faster rejoins
- Increased max rejoin attempts from 10 to 100 for greater persistence
- Bot will now be more aggressive about staying in channels
- Added auto_rejoin configuration to connection settings
- Handles KICK events and automatically schedules rejoin attempts
- Configurable retry interval and max attempts
- Tracks rejoin attempts per channel with exponential backoff
- Handles JOIN confirmations to stop rejoin loops
- Proper cleanup of rejoin tasks on shutdown
- Respects shutdown and connection state before rejoining
- Logs all rejoin attempts and results for debugging
- Ignore Python __pycache__ directories and .pyc files
- Ignore logs/ directory and all .log files
- Ignore temporary and backup files
- Ignore IDE and OS generated files
- Remove tracked __pycache__ files from repository
- Added datetime import to fix NameError
- Simplified database handling to create new file if missing or corrupted
- Removed backup functionality per user request
- Fixed duplicate method definitions
- Enhanced error handling throughout database operations
- Auto-creates duckhunt.json with proper structure on startup
