BlockProtection - automatic per-block protection

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if a player breakes a block then the server has to run through a database of all the protected blocks.

The plugin is smarter than that. It queries the database only once in a while and stores the results for a 16x16x16 block area around the player. If the player doesn't move outside this area, there's no need to query the database - all the blocks are already in the memory. And when the user moves out of this area, the data is queried again for the new area, using a single DB query.

I haven't stress-tested this plugin, but I believe the performance impact to be pretty minimal. I'd be interested in a real-world test, though; unfortunately I don't have a 150-player server.