diff --git a/core/build.gradle.kts b/core/build.gradle.kts
index 2e5033a..09cec49 100644
--- a/core/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/core/build.gradle.kts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import xyz.wagyourtail.jvmdg.gradle.task.ShadeJar
 // ClassVisitor tasks over the compiled :core/:platform/:api classes.
 buildscript {
     repositories { mavenCentral() }
-    dependencies { classpath("org.ow2.asm:asm:9.7") }
+    dependencies { classpath("org.ow2.asm:asm:9.10.1") }
 }
 
 plugins {
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 1e272c4..a03e0d6 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # NOTE the floor's OLD groupId: com.destroystokyo.paper published paper-api through
 # 1.16.5; io.papermc.paper starts only at 1.17. Compiling core against the 1.13 API
 # (version-deltas §3.17) shrinks the 1.13–1.16 probe band to ~zero.
-paper-floor = "1.13.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT"
+paper-floor = "1.16.5-R0.1-SNAPSHOT"
 paper-folia = "1.20.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT"
 paper-modern = "1.20.6-R0.1-SNAPSHOT"
 
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ bstats = "3.2.1"
 # compileOnly ONLY (soft-dep, never shaded): the typed FableExpansion subclass needs the
 # abstract PlaceholderExpansion supertype at compile time; the class is FQN-loaded at
 # runtime behind the PlaceholderAPI presence gate (me/clip is a verifyJdk8Api server ignore).
-placeholderapi = "2.11.6"
-annotations = "26.0.2"
+placeholderapi = "2.12.3"
+annotations = "26.1.0"
 junit = "5.11.4"
-jqwik = "1.9.2"
-archunit = "1.3.0"
-asm = "9.7"
+jqwik = "1.10.1"
+archunit = "1.4.2"
+asm = "9.10.1"
 
-shadow = "9.4.2"
+shadow = "9.5.1"
 run-paper = "3.0.2"
 # JVMDowngrader — lowers the shaded Java-17 (v61) jar to a Multi-Release mega-jar
 # whose base tree is class v52 (Java 8) with the original v61 kept under
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index df6a6ad..a9db115 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.5.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.6.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 retries=0
 retryBackOffMs=500
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index b9bb139..249efbb 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 ##############################################################################
 #
-#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
+#   gradlew start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
 #
 #   Important for running:
 #
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
 #       command line, like:
 #
-#           ksh Gradle
+#           ksh gradlew
 #
 #       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
 #       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index aa5f10b..8508ef6 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 @if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
 @rem
-@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
+@rem  gradlew startup script for Windows
 @rem
 @rem ##########################################################################
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 
 
-@rem Execute Gradle
+@rem Execute gradlew
 @rem endlocal doesn't take effect until after the line is parsed and variables are expanded
 @rem which allows us to clear the local environment before executing the java command
 endlocal & "%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -jar "%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar" %* & call :exitWithErrorLevel