diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bf3857f..741577c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -106,6 +106,26 @@
                             <goal>shade</goal>
                         </goals>
                         <configuration>
+                            <transformers>
+                                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer"/>
+                            </transformers>
+                            <!-- The shaded plugin is not a JPMS module. -->
+                            <filters>
+                                <!-- Keep the plugin manifest; dependency manifests describe separate JARs. -->
+                                <filter>
+                                    <artifact>org.bstats:*</artifact>
+                                    <excludes>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</exclude>
+                                    </excludes>
+                                </filter>
+                                <filter>
+                                    <artifact>*:*</artifact>
+                                    <excludes>
+                                        <exclude>module-info.class</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/versions/**/module-info.class</exclude>
+                                    </excludes>
+                                </filter>
+                            </filters>
                             <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
                             <artifactSet>
                                 <includes>
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/geigercounters/managers/GeigerManager.java b/src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/geigercounters/managers/GeigerManager.java
index 85c63ed..af43676 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/geigercounters/managers/GeigerManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/geigercounters/managers/GeigerManager.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package net.tfminecraft.geigercounters.managers;
 
-import net.tfminecraft.tlibs.enums.APIType;
 import net.tfminecraft.tlibs.objects.api.ItemAPI;
 import net.tfminecraft.tlibs.TLibs;
 import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ public static GeigerManager getInstance() {
     // Initialize the Geiger Counter system
     // ====================================
     public void initialize() {
-        api = (ItemAPI) TLibs.getApiInstance(APIType.ITEM_API);
+        api = TLibs.getItemAPI();
         
         configuration = new GeigerConfiguration(plugin);
         configuration.load();
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/geigercounters/utils/Utils.java b/src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/geigercounters/utils/Utils.java
index 4366873..a2f4cc8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/geigercounters/utils/Utils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/geigercounters/utils/Utils.java
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ public class Utils {
     // Durations like "12h", "90m", "1d", "30s" - or a bare number, read as seconds
     private static final Pattern DURATION_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("(?i)^[ \t]*([0-9]+(?:[.][0-9]+)?)[ \t]*([smhd]?)[ \t]*$");
 
+    // Keep the existing legacy text representation, formatting, and exact-string comparisons.
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
     public static String colorize(String msg) {
         Matcher match = Pattern.compile("#[a-fA-F0-9]{6}").matcher(msg);
         while (match.find()) {