The API is working!

pom.xml

@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@
             <version>4.11.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.kyori</groupId>
+            <artifactId>adventure-text-serializer-plain</artifactId>
+            <version>4.11.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>me.clip</groupId>
             <artifactId>placeholderapi</artifactId>

src/main/java/com/gmail/artemis/the/gr8/playerstats/api/PlayerStats.java

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package com.gmail.artemis.the.gr8.playerstats.api;
 
 import com.gmail.artemis.the.gr8.playerstats.Main;
 import net.kyori.adventure.text.TextComponent;
-import net.kyori.adventure.text.minimessage.MiniMessage;
+import net.kyori.adventure.text.serializer.plain.PlainTextComponentSerializer;
 import org.bukkit.Material;
 import org.bukkit.Statistic;
 import org.bukkit.entity.EntityType;
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 
  <p>The result of the methods in PlayerStats' API are returned in the form of a TextComponent,
  which can be sent directly to a Minecraft client with the Adventure library,
- or turned into a String with {@link #statResultComponentToString(TextComponent)}.</p>*/
+ or turned into a String with {@link #statResultComponentToString(TextComponent)}.
+ Don't use the Adventure method .content() on your result instead of the method specified in here -
+ because of the way the TextComponent is built by PlayerStats, you won't be able to get the full content that way. </p>*/
 public interface PlayerStats {
 
     /** Returns an instance of the {@link PlayerStatsAPI}.
@@ -29,6 +31,13 @@ public interface PlayerStats {
         return Main.getPlayerStatsAPI();
     }
 
+    /** Turns a TextComponent into its String representation. If you don't want to work with
+     Adventure's TextComponents, you can call this method to turn any stat-result into a String.
+     It will lose all color and style, but it will keep line-breaks.*/
+    default String statResultComponentToString(TextComponent statResult) {
+        return PlainTextComponentSerializer.plainText().serialize(statResult);
+    }
+
     /** Get a formatted player-statistic of Statistic.Type UNTYPED.*/
     TextComponent getPlayerStat(@NotNull Statistic statistic, @NotNull String playerName) throws IllegalArgumentException;
 
@@ -55,11 +64,4 @@ public interface PlayerStats {
 
     /** Get a formatted top-statistic of Statistic.Type ENTITY. Not recommended to call this from the main Thread (see class description).*/
     TextComponent getTopStats(@NotNull Statistic statistic, @NotNull EntityType entity) throws IllegalArgumentException;
-
-    /** Turns a TextComponent into its String representation. If you don't want to work with
-     Adventure's TextComponents, you can call this method to turn any stat-result into a String.
-     It will lose all color and style, but it will keep line-breaks.*/
-    default String statResultComponentToString(TextComponent statResult) {
-        return MiniMessage.miniMessage().serialize(statResult);
-    }
 }

src/main/java/com/gmail/artemis/the/gr8/playerstats/msg/MessageBuilder.java

@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ public class MessageBuilder {
     /** Depending on the config settings, return either a TranslatableComponent representing
      the statName (and potential subStatName), or a TextComponent with capitalized English names.*/
     private TextComponent getStatNameComponent(StatRequest request) {
-        if (config.useTranslatableComponents()) {
+        if (config.useTranslatableComponents() && !request.isAPIRequest()) {
             String statKey = languageKeyHandler.getStatKey(request.getStatistic());
             String subStatKey = request.getSubStatEntry();
             if (subStatKey != null) {

src/main/java/com/gmail/artemis/the/gr8/playerstats/statistic/RequestManager.java

@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ public class RequestManager implements RequestGenerator {
         return request;
     }
 
+    /** This method will generate a {@link StatRequest} for a stat-request arriving through the API.*/
     public StatRequest generateRequest(@NotNull Target selection, @NotNull Statistic statistic, Material material, EntityType entity, String playerName) {
-        StatRequest request = new StatRequest(Bukkit.getConsoleSender());
+        StatRequest request = new StatRequest(Bukkit.getConsoleSender(), true);
         request.setSelection(selection);
         request.setStatistic(statistic);
         switch (statistic.getType()) {