Considering Adding an Anticheat
I run a server where people play minigames with datapacks that I programmed, with the different games separated into datapack-specified dimensions. Recently, I’ve been watching a player use movement hacks - flying, super-speed, knockback resistance, etc. I learned they’re using Meteor Client to do this. What are some good ways to prevent this movement hacking? Can it be done on a Vanilla server, or would I have to use plugins?
For context, I have experience with datapacks, but I know basically nothing about plugins. The server is the standard Vanilla, hosted on Scalacube if that helps. Ideally I’d like to keep the server Vanilla if possible.
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Good Anticheats are only available as plugins. There are some bad ones as mods or datapacks but those will be bypassed by anyone who is somewhat competent with a cheat client.
Datapacks are also not very performant with high players, so if you want to support high-ish playercounts I’d recommend just redoing your whole setup. Use Paper as your server software, switch from datapacks to plugins (they are more performant and probably also offer even more configurability than any datapacks you could find) and get a free anticheat like Lightning Grim or Vulcan (paid) if you want something better and if you want the absolute best, use Polar (subscription), but you won’t need this
The only problem is you might lose some playerdata
When migrating
Any playerdata they have could probably be converted quite easily
Also, I thought meteor client by default shows its brand as meteor? It's an anarchy client isn't it?
huh lol
they don't support cracked
no one likes cracked
I recommend grim with paper
Unless ur rich then get Vulcan
that sucks
yeah but theres a brand spoofer to show "vanilla" to the server instead of "fabric"
Not sure why nobody has said this.
If you want to keep the server functionally Vanilla, try swapping to fabric. Fabric is a mod loader, but it does not inherently modify the game out of the box like Paper does.
Grim is a great free anticheat, particularly for movement cheats. They publish both a paper plugin and a fabric mod here.
https://modrinth.com/plugin/grimac/versions
Modrinth
Grim Anticheat - Minecraft Plugin
Fully async, multithreaded, predictive, open source, 3.01 reach, 1.005 timer, 0.01% speed, 99.99% antikb, "bypassable" 1.8-1.21 anticheat
That sounds great, I’ll give it a try! Thank you!