Big Scary Games – The #1 Anti-Grief Minecraft Server Plugin : Grief Prevention

Minecraft’s grief is on its last legs it’s a dying art if today you’re having grief problems on your server which require your attention as an administrator that’s because you’re using the wrong tools if you’re still using worldguard lwc laquet dead bolt residents precious stones epic zones town a log block core protect big

Brother fire stop tt fix spam guard or any anti grief plug-in which is not called grief prevention you’re doing it the hard way now understand I’m not saying that these plugins are completely outdated and useless many of them especially world garden residents for example have desirable features which

Are not related to anti grief for example we regards option to stop monsters from spawning in an area or residences enter and leave messages for flagged areas but if these are your primary tools for anti grief it’s time to update for sake of anti grief you can

Replace all of these yeah I mean all of them with a plug-in called grief prevention I’m about to show you the proof that grief prevention does a better job of preventing grief then all other anti grief plugins combined also prevents some briefs that none of them

Fix and finally is the easiest to use for both administrators and for players so please before you start flaming my comments I know you all love your plugins at least watch the entire video and try this plugin for yourself once you understand how it works I think

You’ll agree that it’s the best anti grief plug-in you’ve ever seen let’s start with how easy it is to use I’m about to place my first chest on the server when I do I get an automatic land claim around the chest area and a message telling me how I can adjust that

Land climb later without any client mods installed I can actually see the boundaries of my land plain since each player built a chest once he has stuff worth protecting this means that even a player who is never encountered this plug-in before has not only his chest protected but also the surrounding

Blocks plugins like locket required the players to take extra steps before his chest is protected and all container only protection plugins failed to stop griefers from wrecking the rest of the build they also require players to manage permissions for each container individually which can be very frustrating in the simple and

In case where two friends just want to share an entire build now let’s say that I want to adjust the area I get out the golden shovel like the chest measures told me to and I get a link to a YouTube video that actually demonstrates for me

How the thing works that’s a million times better than any in-game sign wiki forum thread or chat explanation you might say but I don’t want my players to have to get a golden shovel and I say well cool go to the config file and change it to something else like a

Wooden shovel now watch how easy it is to resize my claim let’s make it bigger with no slash commands just a couple of right clicks now smaller now an additional claim again with two right clicks worried about griefers claiming too much land not a problem players have a claim allowance which

Grows with playtime on the server don’t worry players who idle don’t get claim allowance so there’s no cheating and yes you can even integrate with your server economy to have players buying and selling claim allowance you can also hook with the voter fire plug-in to give claim allowance for votes or even

Manually give claim allowance via a slash command for donations now suppose some newbie manages to miss the chest message or once info before he even places the chest what do they always do they ask in chat so let’s do that how do I claim land question mark

Boom there it is a link to the YouTube video instantaneous automatic help it doesn’t matter if I’m all over the server or all players ignore me I have my perfect answer of video demonstration let’s try asking another way yo Dawgs somebody tell me how I can lock mah Ches

You dig there it is same answer self service but what if a player accidentally builds outside his claim well when he places a bunch of blocks which appear to be not trash blocks like dirt outside of his claim he gets a warning message and his claim boundary

Lights up to help if he manages to place a chest in an unclaimed area he’ll get a big red message explaining that the chest isn’t protected considering all this help and all these safety nets your players would have to be complete idiots not to claim their stuff properly of

Course the video also tells players how to use the incredibly simple trust and untrust commands to give other players permission to join them in building for advanced players who want to for example build towns land claims can even be sub divided for more fine-grained permissions management and there are

Even some additional levels of permission specifically for those situations so now that everything’s claimed let me prove to you that it’s impossible to grief acclaimed area here’s a house I’m a server operator in creative mode let’s try to wreck this can’t break blocks can’t place blocks can’t steal can’t

Kill animals can’t trample crops or lead animals to trample crops can’t steal water can’t use buttons and levers a server admin you even have the option to automatically log all wooden doors and trap doors as well fluids won’t flow in distance won’t push in this is foot pull

Out tt won’t destroy blocks tea cannons destroyed blocks can’t even grow trees I also can’t build over top because the claim goes all the way to the max build height and I don’t have to worry about creepers destroying anything fire won’t destroy anything we can wait all day but

It won’t destroy anything can’t set fire inside the claim either of course I could go on and on and on and on but here’s what you need to know this plugin has been available for a year and has been refined during all that time you will not find exploits yes of course as

An admin with the right permissions node I can override to make changes to any claim area I can also resize or delete claims belonging to other players and even create claims for others so that’s how impossible it is to grief acclaimed area now let’s talk about briefing chat

By spamming let me Diop myself here and then I’m going to spam the chat I want you to watch closely you’ll see that on my screen all the chat messages appear to go out I’ll get a warning and then I’ll get a band yes you can configure to

Just kick or mute spammers but I’m telling you there are no false alarms so you have nothing to worry about banning spammers you’re probably thinking hold on a minute that you just succeed in spamming the chat at least a little bit what if he has like 50 accounts and

Since 10 messages with each that’s a lot of spam right wrong let’s have a look at the logs as you can see while the spammer thinks he succeeded actually only his very first message went out to the public chat the rest were sent only to him two players some guy said

Something odd then left the server without explanation the spammer doesn’t know it but he’s just been mind-fucked it and not coming back on the server to try again because he thinks he already won ok so you might be thinking catching a simple repetition spam is easy but it’s actually much more sophisticated

Than that it’ll stop / command spam tells spam emote spam tech start spam death spam similar message spam gibberish spam login logout spam and much much more and it works so insanely well that you and your players won’t even know there’s been a spam attempt unless you go check the logs even login

Spam with multiple accounts won’t work because when joining messages start coming too fast they’re automatically muted until they slow down now on to spawn camping how many youtube vids have you seen where grievers camp the spawn killing players as they respawn well no more grief prevention automatically without any special configuration protects all

Responding players everywhere when a player responds he can’t participate in PvP until he picks up an item so he’s safe from spawn campers if the griefer tosses some items on the spawn point for his victim to accidentally pick up it’s not a problem because responding players can’t pick up

Items for several seconds after responding this means responding players have a giant head start and the worst griefers can do is chase them and hope they’ll pick something up which means abandoning the spawn camping location further the spawn camper himself isn’t protected because there’s no PvP free zone for him

To hide in because he’s equipped he’s vulnerable to any player who comes over to fight him if he tries to cheat by logging out during combat he’ll die instantly if he tries to teleport away with a command like slash home it just won’t work so basically it’s impossible to spawn camp

Effectively no matter where or how the target player responds so what about wilderness grief fire doesn’t spread or destroy blogs so you don’t have to worry about forest fires of course T&T and creepers don’t destroy any blocks above sea level so you don’t have to worry about all those ugly craters idling up

Your map and of course Enderman don’t pick up blocks either above sea level dumping water and lava only works inside land claims so that so that prevents griefers from using their favorite tools also on non PvP servers griefers can never dump lava or set fire very close

To another player if a griever smart enough to use a land claim to dump water like this the water actually won’t flow out if you then abandons his land claim to let the water flow it’ll be automatically cleaned up which prevents it from spilling out what if a griefer

Decides to build something annoying outside of land claims like a swastika or a penis or even the dreaded siwash – penis I’m about to show you a tool that will blow your mind it’s called restore nature now before I show you that it can restore any player built ugliness to a natural attractive

State with only point-and-click let me emphasize a couple of things first there is no world back up those take a massive amount of hard drive space so restore nature works without a backup second there is no database databases are difficult for amateur server administrators to work with so restore

Nature works without a database and finally there is no chunk regeneration chunk regeneration makes a huge mess every time mo yang updates the world generation code and it fails to fix ugly world generation errors like floating islands and gravel sticking out of the ground where there should be grass so

Here’s how restore nature works all I have to do is get out my golden shovel type restore nature and then right-click on what I don’t like that’s right no million slash commands with five parameters each no investigation is to see which players change which blocks and when they change them none of that

You don’t like it right click it simple of course anything at all built from non natural blocks is easy to fix because it’s obvious it was placed there by a player but what if agree for build something with natural blocks single block towers spilled fluids water craters surface ripples potholes and trenches

Walls leave constructions log constructions even stone constructions well what about what’s removed watch me use this feel this fill tool I point at the level I want to fill to and at the block type I want to fill with giant craters in the ground gone spilled water filled with sand spilled water filled

With grass I can even build up a little landscape if I want to get fancy with it well what about the ugly world generation stuff here’s a floating island I just point at the bottom of it and click and remember all of this without a database without a backup and

Without regenerating any chunks to top it all off I can be absolutely 100% certain that in all cases I will never ever accidentally wipe out somebody’s hidden work because unlike world edits region command in similar commands restore nature will never change a clamped block worried about griefers putting land

Claims around their builds to protect them you can delete every claim they own in an instant with a single short slash command and now you know exactly who to ban because they sign their name on their work if all this isn’t enough for you it’s also compatible with Tekkit and

Many other mods and it has a creative mode which Believe It or Not actually prevents even the griefs which are only possible in creative mode this plug-in is the ultimate anti grief it’s worth any amount of effort to switch your server over to it I’ve been running for

Servers that’s to survival one ticket and one creative for a year now and I do it all by myself in my free time because this plug-in makes shutting down griefers incredibly fast and easy in fact the only grief or problem I ever have anymore is network based attacks because

Griefers get mad after failing to beat the plug-in and resort to the only tool they have left the short-lived network annoyance stop spending your time reading complaints investigating whodunit typing my long slash commands to rollback changes and banning people go get this plug-in solve all your grief problems with one download