Bukkit

NoCheat 3.2.1:

• fix config file entries. "CHECKinventory" changed to the correct "check.inventory"

Not a serious mistake, but it shouldn't be that way and looks ugly.

@Dmck2b

You mean people joining with lots of spambots? It's tough, because if I'd e.g. stop people from chatting the same message as others, the botusers would just start to alter their messages aso. So I don't think I'll add something against that specifically. The "spam" check of NoCheat is only intended to prevent servers from getting crashed by people that spam a lot, not really to prevent spam as an annoiance.

NoCheat 3.2.0:

• to use the "/nocheat reload" command, you now need "nocheat.admin.commands" and the new node "nocheat.admin.reload"
• new check "inventory.instantbow": identify players that are charging their bows too fast
• new check "inventory.instanteat": identify players eating their food too fast
• new checks may cause problems in case of lag

Longer explaination of the new checks here: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/sec-nocheat-v3-2-0-detect-and-fight-the-exploitation-of-various-flaws-bugs-in-mc-cb-1-1-r3.4523/page-76#post-955241

@cvxx7q

I lost the last HQ copy of that photograph, so I thought it's a good idea to go with a new avatar anyway. Had the old one for almost 10 years.

NoCheat has become pretty stable (again), so it won't break as easily as it did in earlier versions. Only critical situation will be going to MC 1.2, but I'd guess it's not that much difference.

@JoneKone

I can only support functionality of other plugins, because plugins have to play by certain rules and use common Bukkit functions to do what they do.

Server mods simply alter the server code as they see fit, giving plugins like NoCheat no chance to find out what they do or why. Therefore it's impossible for me to support things like Industrial Craft.

@Dmck2b

Seems like he packed all his toys and left for good, "mcadmin.eu" is now for sale. Oh, and I may know now what you meant with him being involved in NoCheat development. Afaik he branched NoCheat some time ago and created his own version based off it. Is that what you meant?

In that case I can only say that I never accepted code from others into NoCheats codebase. But because NoCheat is open source everybody can just take it and do whatever he wants with it. That's why it is REALLY important that people only download NoCheat from this page and/or my dropbox account, because only those versions are really made by me.

PS: And contrary to him I didn't make thousands of dollars by selling a minecraft hack client to griefers. It takes a really strong will to play on the good side when you see how much money can easily be made on the dark side. :-/

@Dmck2b

I can't find any reference to NoCheat on that page. CTRL+F NoCheat didn't show anything. So I'm not sure what you are referring to.

I always found it funny that people entrust some random stranger that hides behind a nickname, has a track record of fucking shit up and associates mainly with people that do the same, with the most important part of their server security. And especially do that by installing closed source software.

NoCheat is written 100% by me, 100% open source and definitely (if you download it here on bukkitDev or from my dropbox account) free of backdoors.

PS: I don't hide. I have a clean vest when it comes to computer security, so there's no problem for me to say: "I'm Wilfried Pasquazzo, I help you secure your servers."

Ever wondered where it all started and why I started to write NoCheat? It's been exactly a year now.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/157565-releasemod15-the-god-mod-admin-powers-on-any-server/

(too bad I can't login to that old account of me anymore, I derped it when trying to create a curse account for dev.bukkit.org)

Fun fact: The "nofly" feature today is pretty much the same as it was back then, only expanded to treat all kinds of special cases better. The basic idea never changed.

@ShakyTom

Client lag - badly. You'll get false positives from time to time when a player lags for that player. Server lag - it'll deactivate itself when the server lags, so that shouldn't cause (lots of) false positives.

Giving a little shoutout to hclewk and his "kNoHax" plugin.

Competition is most of the time nonexistant in this anti-hack "business", so please help him out with testing, bug reports etc.

I've updated the "Configuration" link at the beginning of the thread to point to https://github.com/Evenprime/NoCheat/blob/master/Instructions.txt now, which is automatically the latest version of the txt-File that will be created when you run NoCheat.

That'll save me some work.

@nate302

I tried to, but it's just not possible to reliably prevent people from jumping over fences like that without causing problems in other situations.