Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause	Fix
A task cannot be completed	Bad target, or the task is broken	/dailyresearch disable <task> broken
Mining or smelting gives no progress	The block was placed by a player, Creative mode, or the target tag matches nothing	Check the boot log for a VanillaTargetAudit ERROR
Mining progress shows up a few seconds late	Progress is batched every 3 seconds	Expected
/dailies unknown for players	Missing from CommandWhitelist	Add all three commands
A card shows a count that does not match its text	An old version stored the text on the row	Fixed in 1.10; the text now comes from the live config
Retiring a task is refused	It is the last live task in that slot	Add or enable another task in the slot first

The first time mining or smelting counts after a boot, the log shows First mining progress recorded this run (<block>). If it never appears, the server is not firing those events.

Boot line: Research ready; dailies reset at midnight and weeklies reset Monday at midnight in America/New_York.