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Anti-Cheats

Throughout this guide ‘Anti-Cheat(s)’ may be referred to as ‘AC’ or ‘ACs’

ACs are an integral part of any public server and help with catching hackers, since Minecraft’s built-in anti-cheat is practically useless, it’s better to turn it off than to endure the constant false positives it spews out.

You should change the following settings within the server.properties file.

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allow-flight=true


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Within the spigot.yml file you should also set the following values.

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     moved-wrongly-threshold: 100000.0
     moved-too-quickly-multiplier: 100000.0


...

For the recommended anti-xray settings click here.

We highly discourage the usage of auto-bans as no anti-cheat is perfect. If you want to auto-ban, consider having something like AntiCheatReplay so that you can undo false bans.

Common Anti-Cheats

This list consists common ACs and some pros and cons of each AC.

NoCheatPlus Spigot / Paper & forks only

Pros
  • Free and open-source
  • Good movement checks
Cons
  • Default configuration will spam false movement positives all over the place, you should buy a good config (eg. MarkElf’s) OR make your own
  • Mediocre combat checks
Github View NoCheatPlus's official Github page for downloading the plugin.

Grim Spigot / Paper & forks only

Pros
  • Open-source
  • Great movement checks
  • Predictive technology
Cons
  • Currently WIP, not ready for production servers
  • Mediocre combat checks
  • Quite unoptimized
Github View Grim's official Github page for downloading the plugin.

Vulcan Spigot / Paper & forks only

Pros
  • Great movement and combat checks
  • Good default config
Cons
  • USD 20.00
  • Suboptimal performance when scaled to high player counts (>3% of ticks at 420 players)
Spigot View Vulcan's official Spigot page for downloading the plugin.

Spartan Spigot / Paper & forks only

Pros
  • 14-day money-back guarantee
  • Good Bedrock Checks
  • Decent movement checks
Cons
  • EUR 22.49
  • Relatively poor combat checks
  • Crashes on start up at times
  • Sub-par performance
Spigot View Spartan's official Spigot page for downloading the plugin.

Matrix Spigot / Paper & forks only

Pros
  • Decent movement and combat checks
Cons
  • Bad default config, but there are some good ones out there
  • USD 20.00 (With 95% Checks) and USD 129.00 (All Checks)
  • Dedicated Server Limit
  • Terrible performance; Ate up >5% of the ticks at 135 players
Website View Matrix's official website for downloading the plugin.

Themis Spigot / Paper & forks only

Pros
  • Free
  • Proper Geyser-Floodgate (Bedrock Players) checks (Only reason to use this anti-cheat)
Cons
  • Bad Combat & Mediocre Movement checks (Bad Elytra, Timer, KillAura Checks)
  • Lack of checks in general
Spigot View Thermis's official Spigot page for downloading the plugin.

SoaromaSAC (Config 6) Spigot / Paper & forks only

Pros
  • Free
Cons
  • Bad Checks
  • Infinite False Positives
  • Fake Open Source Link. Leads to a Rick Roll
Spigot View SoaromaSAC's official Spigot page for downloading the plugin.

Negativity v1 & v2 All major Java platforms

Pros
  • Free & Open Source
  • Paid Version (v2) is Open Source
  • v2 supports a lot of platforms (Minestom, Sponge, Fabric & more)
Cons
  • Lacks some important checks (No Elytra Checks, NoSlow Checks etc)
  • Poor movement and combat checks
Spigot View Negativity's official Spigot page for downloading the plugin.

Polar

Pros
  • Great movement and combat checks
  • Works out-of-the-box on most servers
  • Cloud-based detections, which helps reducing stress on server resources
Cons
  • Subscription plans starting at EUR 15/month
  • Limitations on player count, server instances and dedicated servers based on subscription plan
Website View Polar's official website for downloading the plugin.

Recommendations

Both Astro and Vulcan offer a great price to performance ratio. However, Astro will be significantly lighter on system resources. Also, Vulcan will support Bedrock in the near future. Astro already supports it.