Exploits & cheats

What's allowed, what gets you banned. Mods, exploits, dupes, autoclickers — the full picture.

The server allows a wide range of vanilla-aligned mods and play styles. It bans the kind of things that ruin the game for other players.

The line: does this give you mechanical advantages other players don't have?

Allowed

Performance and rendering mods (Java)

Sodium — recommended; massive performance gains
Iris — for shaders + Sodium
Lithium / Phosphor / Starlight — performance internals
OptiFine — older but still allowed
Other rendering / performance mods — case by case, but generally fine

Convenience mods (Java)

MiniMap mods — yes, including ones showing nearby players
Litematica / Schematica — for build planning (NOT for griefing or autobuild)
Replay Mod — recording sessions, screenshots
Tweakeroo and similar QoL — most of their features are fine; a few are restricted (see below)

Bedrock equivalents

Render Dragon built-in features
Resource pack tweaks for visuals
Controller mappings
Bedrock has fewer mod options than Java by design; what's available is generally fine

Voice chat

Discord — common community channel; no in-game integration required
Plasmo Voice / Simple Voice Chat mods — proximity voice; generally fine if both players opt in
External voice tools for organized PvP / events — fine

Macros (with limits)

Single-purpose macros like "press button to open chat with /balance" are fine. Auto-clickers and combat-bots are not (see below).

Banned (instant)

X-Ray mods or texture packs

Modifying client to see through walls, find ores, see hidden bases. Permaban on detection. No appeal accepted unless you can prove a false positive.

Kill-aura

Auto-targeting and auto-swinging at nearby mobs/players. Permaban on detection.

Fly hacks

Movement modifications that let you fly without elytra/jetpack/legitimate means. Permaban.

Speed hacks

Modifications that increase your movement speed beyond legitimate gear/effects. Permaban.

Macros or hardware that auto-click the attack button at superhuman rate. Permaban for combat use. (Auto-clickers used outside combat — for tedious crafting, etc. — are gray area; use sparingly and not in PvP.)

Item duplication exploits

If you find a duplication exploit:

Don't use it. Don't share it with friends.
Report it to staff via /helpop — there's typically a bug bounty (in-game rewards) for legitimate reports
If you've used one — admit it to staff before they find out. Coming clean before getting caught is treated very differently from being caught.

Using a known dupe = tempban + restoration (rollback the duplicated items). Repeated use = permaban.

Bypassing protections

Using exploits to get past server-enforced gates — e.g., finding a way into a warded area you're not a member of, or accessing perks you haven't earned. Tempban; potentially permaban for repeated cases.

Gray areas

"Luck" mods

Things that show drop probabilities or biome details before you experience them. Probably allowed; depends on specifics. Ask in /helpop if unsure.

Inventory tweaks (auto-replant, auto-swap)

Mostly built into the server (see Quality of life) — no need for mods. If you use a mod that does the same thing locally, fine.

"Fishbots"

Auto-cast/auto-reel-in mods. Crosses into auto-farming territory. Don't. Manual fishing is fine; bot-fishing is not.

Unbreaking enchantments

Some other servers ban "Unbreaking III on tools" or similar. We don't — vanilla enchants are fine.

Speed-running tactics

Vanilla speed-running tricks (clutch saves, MLG water bucket, etc.) — fine. Just because it's clever doesn't make it cheating.

Combat tactics

Strafing, sneak-jumping, clutching, anchoring — all fine. Just don't auto-click or use kill-aura.

"Banned tactics" that are actually fine

We sometimes get reports of these as cheats. They're not:

Pearl chambers — vanilla mechanic
Pearl through portal — vanilla mechanic
Pearl-stasis — vanilla mechanic
Beds-in-Nether for damage — vanilla mechanic (DON'T use them in spawn)
Iron farms — vanilla design, fine to build
Mob farms — vanilla design, fine to build (the cooldown system limits the per-kill rewards anyway)
AFK fishing in safe spots — fine (AFK earnings are limited; the system anti-farms naturally)
AFK leveling tricks — fine within reason
Quick-swapping armor pieces in combat — fine
Totem in any inventory slot — built into the server (not a mod)

If you're not sure whether a tactic is OK, ask in /helpop.

How detection works

Staff work from logs and reports, not guesswork:

Block and action logs — every block broken and placed is recorded, so X-ray-shaped mining patterns stand out against honest caving
Item and inventory logs — duplicated items leave a paper trail
Player reports — the community is the best sensor; reports are confidential
Manual review — staff can watch, compare stats, and correlate reports across players

Cheating tends to surface — mining straight to every diamond vein looks nothing like legitimate exploration. Banned players sometimes try to come back with alts; staff watch for that too.

False positives

Investigations aren't perfect. If you're banned and you didn't cheat:

File an appeal — see Staff & reports
Provide context — what you were doing, your typical play patterns
Be patient — appeals take time

Staff reviews appeals in good faith. Genuine false positives get reversed.

Reporting suspected cheaters

If you see someone you think is cheating:

Document — screenshot, time, what they did
/helpop — report with details
Don't accuse publicly in chat — it can be wrong; let staff investigate

Staff treats anonymous reports seriously. The reporter is never named to the reported player.

Why this matters

Cheats and exploits ruin the game for everyone. A mob-farming bot makes legitimate players' coin-earnings less valuable. An X-ray user wrecks exploration and mining for honest players. A kill-aura player makes PvP unwinnable for honest fighters.

Banning cheats isn't about purity — it's about keeping the experience valuable for everyone who plays honestly. That's worth defending.