The Most SCARY Exploits my Minecraft Server has Seen…

Running a minecraft server is a living nightmare i’m sure you all know about how servers such as 2b2t are constantly exploited with players gaining the ability to do things they definitely shouldn’t be allowed to but do you really know what it’s like have you been

Behind the server you see i can offer a unique insight into the behind the scenes of running the constant fire that is a minecraft server i can tell you about every single annoying player who makes their soul duty whenever online to find any and every single little exploital feature we accidentally looked

Over possible i can tell you about the numerous dupe exploits players obtaining illegal and game breaking blocks and items utilizing unintended features of plugins to literally destroy spawn building end portals at spawn using external mods to find any player’s location at any time and even as far as potentially logging into my own

Minecraft account through an exploit and gaining dangerous levels of access some of this stuff all happens behind the scenes and you’ll never know it happened today i’m going to share all these headaches with you as i tell you about the most dangerous bugs and exploits my server has ever faced the first major

Exploit or bug we faced happened over a year ago now on my server’s smp we allow raiding and griefing and don’t have claims or base protection this means many players bases have built tens of thousands of blocks out where they can’t be found or underground for even more security base coordinates are not

Something that should be just given out to anyone as if leaked likely result in a base being griefed in the next two to three business days on the server we also have a reputation plugin where you can give a reputation point to a player if they helped you or did something good

Or down wrap and remove a reputation point if they did something bad like kill or grief you if you reach negative 15 reputation your coordinates are displayed on the tab menu for all to see well on one unfortunate day the rep database completely broke sending everybody’s reputation to negative 2.1

Billion or the 32-bit integer limit pandemonium immediately ensued as a dozen or so players bases were instantly leaked and other players tried to warn everybody not to join the server this resulted in basically everybody logging off in a panic and having us quickly fix the issue which is why it’s not well

Documented because everybody was too afraid to log on luckily this issue was easily found and fixed and since it happened right after the server’s daily restart not as many players were online i can’t say the same about our next array of issues and exploits though a few months later we had our first

Illegal item exploit at spawn we have a cosmetics villager where you can right click to access a gui and equip certain particle effects elytra trails death effects arrow effects and more the gui is made up of a few items greystained glass another star an arrow a skull and

A barrier block used to unequip all cosmetics none of these items are meant to be picked up or moved into your inventory as they are used to access an array of other menus and options by the way you guys should sub ha gotcha bet you thought i was going to ask you to

Subscribe you deaf should by the way but no instead why don’t you just check out my minecraft server ogdashnetwork.net and who knows you could be featured in a video in the future anyways some players somehow figured out that using the slight delay which occurs when right-clicking the villager to open the

Gui and then spamming shift-click would rarely glitch it allowing you to take the items out of the gui and into your inventory this was bad while the arrows skull and glass panes were whatever the netherstar was a rare item which if could be glitched into existence anytime a player wanted would majorly disrupt

The player run economy but even worse was the barrier block i mean do i even need to explain how devastating this could be players could actually place the barrier block as well in fact here’s one player placing on the server probably and hopefully the only screenshot in existence of such a feat

And unfortunately for us things just kept getting worse while the players who discovered the bug and reported it to us were cooperative unfortunately them holding barrier blocks at spawn got a lot of other players attention one of them also apparently dropped the barrier by accident at spawn words spread around

The server like wildfire and suddenly a lot of players flocked to spawn to attempt the exploit themselves and slowly but surely they figured it out one by one and would spread the exploit around by telling their friends now the situation was really really bad because we couldn’t just disable the

Cosmetics villager and patch the issue barrier blocks were now circulating around the server and it wouldn’t be long until the wrong players got their hands on them luckily we figured out a solution and enabled a plug-in which black listed the barrier block so if it was found in any place inventory or was

Placed in the world would be removed and the og smp went on to live another day okay let’s fast forward a few months to talk about our next exploit discovered by players in fact this exploit is fresh only happening a few days ago as of

Writing a big draw of our smp is the player run marketplace where players can rent small little stores for money and then set up shops in them so they can buy and sell items from other players once you have rented a stall you can place blocks within it but can only

Change the blocks which actually make up the stall with a special little donor perk called stall customization stall customization allows you to replace certain blocks which make up a stall with a large selection of other blocks but you can’t mine or pick up the blocks they are meant to be purely cosmetic

That being said some players figured out that if they placed a block in their stall went and did a random stall customization let’s say change dark oak logs to normal oak instead mind the block and then reset their stall customization the block you mind would just magically reappear again

Effectively duping it this worked because resetting the stall customization reverted the stall back to the same saved state prior to customizing it initially which in this case would have been when the stall had dark oak logs and another right block in it upon figuring it out they proceeded

To dupe three stacks of netherride blocks great luckily they decided to boast about it in our server’s discord and dm some other people about it as well as filling their stole with netherright blocks so we caught them and disabled stall customization for the time being but you know what’s even

Funnier while our admin it’s flip was replicating the original stall customization dupe exploit he actually found another easier to replicate and significantly more dangerous exploit you could place whatever block you wanted such as sand in your stall and then well change it to whatever you wanted and

Could actually mine the blocks the fact that no player abused this method before the other convoluted method is kind of hilarious to me both exploits were promptly fixed however in the meantime some players did unintentionally use this second exploit not to dupe but to accomplish some interesting feats

Fortunately for us not realising its game breaking power you see because the blocks can’t be mined or well weren’t meant to be we gave players the option to use illegal blocks like command blocks and end portal frames in their stall design some players figured out that using this

They could set the floor to obsidian and build a nether portal others took it further and meticulously replaced chess in their stall to form an end portal and of course it could be lit and used this was fixed as well but i have a feeling that this isn’t the last we hear about

Some obscure stall customization exploits some players really have just nothing better to do than break the server the same players who discovered the netherright dupe store exploit also gave us quite the scare a few weeks back on the smp we have an events plug-in basically every 30 minutes a random

Minigame is chosen such as spleef tnt run skywars and more which players can click to join the winner of these short and small mini games gets some money as a reward and overall it’s a lot of fun and the players like it a lot we also gave permission to our top donator rank

To choose and start an event every 30 minutes one of the most popular mini-games at the time was sky wars with lots of players starting it and requesting that the donators started as well now we’ve had some issues with minigames in the past as while in them

You aren’t allowed to use any commands such as slash home or spawn you have to basically finish the events but they have been mostly minor such as players not being able to leave the event or at never ending nothing really game breaking however unlike all other mini-games skywars actually allows

Players to place and destroy blocks the same players who figured out the stall dupe discovered that they could get the blocks to build and light a nether portal in sky wars if they worked together basically allowing them to leave the area of the event and go to the normal overworld nether from there

They could head to the nether spawn and go through a portal thus teleporting them back to the overworld where they could then head to spawn while the server still thought they were in the event now the spawn and marketplace are the only two areas of the entire smp

Which are protected and don’t allow pvp apart from the war zone now because sky wars allows players to break blocks when in that mini-game they are given special permissions when in mini-game mode and since the server thought the players were still in the event even though they are at spawn they could effectively

Break and place blocks anywhere as you can imagine players having the ability to break blocks at spawn is never going to be good by the time i was alerted and logged on they had trapped a bunch of players at spawn by digging down the very block you spawned on as well as

Destroying some player’s chess in market stalls luckily the bug abusers were long-time players and decided to tell us instead before really doing significant damage but the potential to completely destroy spawn had never been higher and if left unchecked for even 15 or 20 more minutes could have been absolutely

Devastating if this ability had fallen into the wrong player’s hands who knows what could have happened earlier this year when we first added bedrock support to our server using geyser we faced a wide array of issues because geyser translates bedrock player packets into java player packets a lot of plugins end

Up having issues with it for example normally on the server when you enter combat you can’t go back into the protected spawn area as you are instead flung away bedrock players could somehow bypass this and just casually stroll back into spawn anyways not long after bedrock compatibility was enabled some

Players discovered the most powerful dupe exploit our server has ever faced normally if a player enters combat and then disconnects an npc of them is spawned which can be killed and will drop their items thus preventing players from combat logging however if a bedrock player entered combat and was killed in

The npc state they would drop their items on the ground and upon re-logging would still have the items in their inventory effectively duping them an extremely powerful duplication exploit this time however we weren’t alerted of the exploit that quickly as was only known by a handful of newer bedrock

Players of which weren’t really well known on the server we only found out when coincidentally a mod tp’d to a player’s base upon getting reports of them flagging the anti-cheat and seeing their dupe stash these bedrock players who likely duped the items on their phones had shulkers upon shulkers of

Netherrite blocks godapples max netherrite armour max tools as well as innumerable amounts of other rare items like wither skulls and nether stars some of these items had been distributed or sold at the market as well which as i mentioned earlier is devastating to an economy-based server it was a stressful

Few days of cleanup and tracking players down of which likely a few got away but for the most part we managed to clean up everything get rid of the duped items and permanently ban the offenders i couldn’t thank our mods enough by the way they were super helpful and thus the

Saga of the bedrock dupe the worst dupe exploit our server has ever faced to date concluded and that’s that i’m sure it won’t be the end of it though i tell you these players are great but my god do they look for any minuscule crack and

Find a way to exploit it there’s a few other stories i still have to share some of which i actually can’t yet as would make our server vulnerable or sensitive right now so look out for a second part in the future i hope you enjoyed the

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