Grief Prevention
AUTOMATICALLY PREVENTS ALL FORMS OF GRIEF, including build/break, theft, spam, fire, spawn camping, lava dumping, chat trolling, advertising and more, so you don't have to undo any damage after the fact. It even teaches players how to use it so you don't have to! No configuration or database required. Stop responding to grief and prevent it instead. Grief Prevention will solve your grief problems without requiring you to manage a roster of trained administrators, juggle 10 different anti-grief plugins, take away cool standard game features, publish a training manual / tutorial for players, or add explanatory signs to your world. You can also choose to integrate PvP elements into build design to finally get a PvP experience befitting a sandbox game about creative building.
Grief Prevention stops grief before it starts automatically without any effort from administrators, and with very little (self service) effort from players. Solve all your grief problems with a single download, no database, and no configuration step.
Got a question or found some random bug? Check the documentation!
Got a problem or bug you can reliably reproduce? Or a feature request? Report it on the issue tracker!
Also, you might be able to catch me/others on the #GriefPrevention IRC channel for help (please state your question and exercise patience if you use this option).
Downloads for older Minecraft Versions
You may also view recent update notes on Github
The Manual
Feature List
Yes, everything is customizable.
- No database or world backups required.
- Extremely efficient CPU / RAM usage.
- Land claims are easy to manage.
- Players create and manage their own land claims, so you don't have to do it for them.
- New players get automatic claims around their first chests so they're protected even if they don't know how to create land claims yet.
- Players who ask for help in chat get an instant link to a demonstration video.
- Resizing claims and creating new claims is done with ONLY the mouse, no slash commands (slash commands are also available).
- When a player appears to be building something nice outside his claim, he's warned and shown his claim boundaries.
- Claim boundaries are easy to see, and don't require any client-side mod installation.
- Extremely easy-to-remember, single-parameter slash commands for giving other players permissions.
- Claim subdivision and granular permissions are available to organize towns and cities. Watch this video.
- It's IMPOSSIBLE to grief a land claim. Watch this video.
- No building or breaking.
- No stealing from ANY containers.
- No sleeping in beds.
- No button/lever usage.
- No adjusting redstone repeaters or other configurable blocks.
- No pushing blocks in with pistons.
- No pulling blocks out with pistons.
- No TNT damage (including cannons).
- No creeper damage.
- No explosive damage from other plugins, like Extra Hard Mode or Magic Spells.
- No enderman/silverfish block changes.
- All doors may be automatically locked (optional, see config file).
- No killing or luring animals away.
- No stealing water (e.g. buckets).
- No trampling crops by players, animals, or monsters.
- No building overtop, all claims reach to the max build height.
- No placing or breaking paintings / item frames / armor stands, etc.
- Fluids will not flow into a claim from outside.
- No placing blocks via TNT/Sand/Gravel cannon.
- Pets and death loot are protected.
- Players can't pick up what another player dropped on death without permission.
- All types of pets are protected everywhere, even outside of land claims (can be configured per-world).
- Excellent anti-spam protection
- Warns, then mutes, then may kick or ban spammers (configurable - you choose).
- Most spammers get only one message out before they're muted.
- Blocks server advertising (IP addresses).
- Blocks repeat message spam.
- Blocks ASCII art (ex. Nyan Cats) spam.
- Blocks similar message spam.
- Blocks unreadable (gibberish) message spam.
- Blocks CAPS.
- Blocks macro spam (very different messages in quick succession).
- Blocks login/logout spam, even when the spammer has multiple accounts.
- Blocks death spam.
- Blocks bot team spam.
- Blocks slash command spam, including /tell, /emote, and any more you add.
- Wilderness Protection and Rollback
- Fire doesn't spread or destroy blocks.
- Creepers and other explosions don't destroy blocks above sea level.
- TNT doesn't destroy blocks above sea level.
- No planting trees on platforms in the sky ("tree grief").
- Instant, point and click nature restoration for not-claimed areas. Watch this video.
- Insanely easy and fast fixes for penises, swastikas, and anything else unsightly.
- Point at what you don't like and click, and it's fixed. Even from far away.
- Never accidentally changes blocks inside land claims.
- No need to investigate who built it, who broke it, or when they did it.
- Doesn't matter if the griefer built with "natural" blocks, it will still be fixed.
- No database.
- No backups.
- No chunk regeneration (it's dangerous for technical reasons).
- Fixes bad chunk generations, like floating islands. It will be better than new.
- Fills holes, even next to water to correct big spills.
- Smooths noisy terrain.
- No griefer construction is safe. If it's unnatural enough to be noticeable by players, it will be removed or filled-in.
- Land claims can't be used as a griefing tool.
- It's impossible to get a player "stuck" inside a land claim.
- Land claims beyond the first require a golden shovel.
- Minimum claim size prevents sprinkling small claims to annoy other players.
- Max claim allowance grows with time played on the server, and can't be cheated by idling.
- A simple administrative slash command will instantly remove all of a griefer's claims, no matter where they are.
- Catches clever griefers.
- Enhances the /ban command to ban ALL a griefer's accounts (not just his IP address).
- Logs sign placements.
- /SoftMute command to shut down chat trolls without them knowing they're beaten.
- Abridged chat logs make reviewing what happened while you were away super-quick and easy.
- Automatically mutes new-to-server players who use racial or homophobic slurs.
- PvP Protections.
- When PvP is off, no setting fire or dumping lava near other players.
- Absolutely bullet-proof anti-spawn-camping protection including bed respawns, which requires no configuration.
- No logging out, stashing items, or using plugin teleportation to escape combat.
- Optional siege mode, to answer players who hide in their claimed houses to avoid combat.
- Supports your server growth.
- Permit players to exchange server currency for claim blocks (requires configuration and other plugins).
- Grant claim blocks automatically for votes, donations, etc (console command provided, other plugins required).
Please Vote for Grief Prevention
I've also posted Grief Prevention on the Spigot site, where plugins are ranked based on reviews. If you love GP, please take a couple of minutes to give GP your rating and leave a short review. Better rating and positive reviews will help server owners who look for plugins on the Spigot site make the safe choice (GP) instead of downloading something sketchy or incomplete. :) Thanks so much for all your support!
http://www.spigotmc.org/resources/griefprevention.1884/
Got a question or found some random bug? Check the documentation!
Got a problem or bug you can reliably reproduce? Or a feature request? Report it on the issue tracker!
Also, you might be able to catch me/others on the #GriefPrevention IRC chat channel for help (please state your question and exercise patience if you use this option).
@Lostwave
Like bigscary himself said, this plugin is, for the most part, functioning flawlessly. As another administrator that moved from Residence, I can say that this plugin is far, far more user-friendly. There's really no reason to not switch, at this point. Also, if you're looking to see the plugin in action, there're plenty of administrators in the comment section with the plugin up and running on their server. bigscary, myself, Tux2, etc.
@tallfrogte
Are you talking about using /trust with groups? I'm not supporting any permissions plugins. You have to /trust and /untrust players individually.
If you're talking about applying administrative permissions like griefprevention.adminclaims, then your problem must be with the other plugin, because mine just uses the permissions provided by the platform. It's up to your other plugin to correctly set those permissions.
@Lostwave
No, you can't disable wilderness building and breaking. The philosophy on this plugin is to stop grief without taking away game features. I think it works extremely well as-is, because players won't be griefed, and any weak-ass wilderness grief can be cleaned up extremely quickly with /restorenature.
About world claims, it's not in yet. I will eventually add an option to enable claims only in specific worlds.
I think you should use the plugin. It's working extremely well on quite a few servers now, including my own where I'm literally the only admin. I only ever ban people for being jerks to others in chat. I've not had a griefing problem that made /ban necessary.
@Tux2
That crashing thing was my bad. Honestly, I didn't bother to test placing a chest at the edge of the end. I'll get it fixed.
@deseven
About translations, maybe eventually.
@Tux2
About the min claim size, now we're nitpicking. Really, dood? Okay anyway, I'll put it in. But it might not be the next release.
MrCheese:
Because /trust commands don't apply to admin claims, it doesn't make sense to subdivide them. Permissions will be the same across the entire claim, including all subdivisions.
If you're trying to do like a "administrator owned hotel" kind of thing, a workaround is to use /adjustbonusclaimblocks to give yourself a giant load of claim blocks, then just make it your own private claim. If you want other admins to have access, give them /permissiontrust and other relevant /trust levels.
Tux:
For your shops thing, use a private claim like I describe above. Just /trust the shop owners, and use Residence to further subdivide the claims vertically to fit your need. I understand it would be better and easier for you if I changed admin claims for to fit your scenario, but I think it's relatively rare and only impacts admins. So I'd rather not complicate admin claims for everyone, since you have a doable workaround in private claims. :)
@Tux2
hahahahah, guess no one here thought living in the end was attractive real estate.. XD
Okay, I put endstone where it would end up and it worked fine:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35110620/glitch/2012-02-12_19.26.20.png
It's a problem with no block being there.
@cvxx7q
yeah, I know about the 2x2 stuff, but I wanted to set it to 8x8 as a minimum size, not 2x2 (still quite a reasonable size)! Also, admin claims should be exempt from this limit (or at least have a permission node for that)
Also, BIG glitch: I have a player that tried to make a claim in the end:
When he places the initial chest, the whole game comes crashing down.
When I try to use the string in that area, it also crashes the game. It does work everywhere else in the end though. I have a feeling that it's because the edge of his claim extends into a part of the end where there is just the void and no blocks.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35110620/glitch/2012-02-12_19.18.24.png
Can you please make a possibility to customize information messages? Can be useful for translations, etc...
ooohh oooh oohh! is the iron door and pressure plate the bug? :P
@Tux2
yeah it is, its for simplicity and idiots wont make 2*2 calms all over the place (somewhat griefing) cudnt u find and edit the value urself? (wud be annoying with each update tho)
So, I've installed this on my server now and have it set up. Only problem I have with it at the moment is the minimum claim size. It seems to be hardcoded into the plugin. Please make this editable as I would like players to be able to make claims smaller than 10x10 (I want it to be 8x8 as the minimum size).
@Lostwave
they can build anywhere they wish except other peoples claims, and if they built anything they wud want to claim to keep it safe, also placing a chest gives any player an automatic claim, so they dont need to learn anything to use it
@cvxx7q
So, basically as it is now, people can build anywhere they want... whether they make a claim or not? They just cannot build on other peoples claims, right?
@Lostwave
at this current time, it is an "all or nothing" situation
you can easily create a HUGE claim that only admins can edit (use for your museum) however you cant make a claim for ppl to build on and prohibit building everywhere else, this is probably a very easy thing to implement, bigscary may consider it i believe (pretty good guy ;) )
Hey there, this plugin sounds very interesting to me.
I have a very busy server and we have been using residence since last April in our main world, and Towny since Sept in our secondary world. When 1.2 comes out we are going to generate a fresh world. I am seriously thinking about using your plugin instead of those two (and possibly get rid of big brother too!). I have read every post in this thread and your messaging above, but I am unsure about a few things.... I sincerly apologize it I missed the answers to these questions.
Thanks! Lostwave.com
is there a full list of permissions nodes for this plugin
Can't seem to get the permissions working with Groupmanager. I've given the permission node to a few groups, but it still gives access to every player, whichever group they're in.
@Tux2
either null claims or, special cuboids, i think the null claim is ur best bet since it blends with the rest of the GriefPrevention system
@cvxx7q
Yes, exactly, a NULL claim. Also, the shops are stacked, so the subdivision won't really work for my situation. Think apartment buildings.
@Tux2
on second thought, cant you make a admin claim then subdivide the shops and give the different shop owners perms/trust?