PwnFilter
Update: 2023-04-20 - PwnFilter EOL Statement
Major changes to chat from Mojang that include chat reporting and signed messages may render PwnFilter no longer usable. The developers of PwnFiilter have not maintained the plugin since 2016, and it has continued to work up until now. We don't see a new version coming out anytime soon and urge server owners to find an alternative. We hear good things about VentureChat - https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/venturechat.771/
-tremor.
About PwnFilter
PwnFilter is way more than just your average word-blocking plugin, PwnFilter uses the power of Regular-Expressions ("RegEx") to give you a highly effective and highly configurable plugin to filter anything you want from chat! Matching words can be rewritten, logged, blocked, and managed, depending on the rules you define. Use PwnFilter for:
- Extremely effective chat/command filtering: Filter anything you want with RegEx!
- Extremely effective curse/swear word filtering, warn users who use bad language, turn their profanities into harmless language, or just deny their message entirely!
- Assign appropriate punishment levels based on severity.
- Anti-Advertisement: IP/URL filtering
- Make fun chat replacements for your server's inside-jokes.
- Single line spam filtering: Remove repetitive characters like hiiiiiiiiiiiii to hi.
- CAPS Blocking capability
- Typo correction: Replace common and annoying typos like "teh" to "the" or "u" or "you"
- Customizable warning messages
- Command aliases: Automatically recognize a !command and change to /longer command, Stop yourself from accidentally sending those embarrassing .commands to chat for everyone to see.
- A few built-in punishments like burn, kill, fine (charge money!), warn, kick, and ban. Or simply utilize the "then console" action to make your server console execute almost any command from any other plugin as if you typed it yourself in the console window, especially if you use a plugin that adds a plethora of punishments, like PunishMental, or use it to make PwnFilter send the appropriate commands to your favorite ban-management system to let it handle what to do!
Think of this plugin as a platform for the power of RegEx, the matching rules are 100% entirely up to you, and there are a hundred ways to do something. The possibilities are endless, the power is as dynamic as you want it to be depending on how much effort you put into having the best RegEx rules.
PwnFilter is a revival and complete rewrite of the RegexFilter plugin by FloydATC. Thanks to DreamPhreak for helping with this Bukkit page, to Sage905 for taking over the latest branch of development making PwnFilter even better than ever, and to EpicAtrain for developing comprehensive regex rules for server owners to use.
Features:
- Filter Chat! (of course)
- Filter Item Names! (Anvil)
- Filter Signs!
- Filter Commands!
- Filter Console!
- Filter Books! (Coming in next version!)
- Filter Nametags!
- Built-in anti-spam feature can be enabled in config.
- Commands for OP or by permission node.
- Supports color message replacement.
- Globally clear all player's chat windows with "/pfcls".
- Global mute with "/pfmute" - stops all server chat and commands for making admin announcements.
- Command typos beginning with certain characters can be stopped (like . and 7, accidentally instead of / and &).
- Optionally recover those typos and execute the command as intended.
- Define your own macros or command aliases.
- Simple but powerful configuration with built-in debugging.
- Each regular expression is compiled only once => very fast.
- Able to reload all your PwnFilter rules & config files without needing to restart the server with "/pfreload".
- Optionally kick or warn players on rule matches AND/OR:
- Execute commands from console or other plugins.
- Use randrep action to replace swears with a random multiple option.
- Use lower action to replace text to all lowercase (great for those CAPS chatters).
- True command aliases, link faux commands like /wave to /me waves at you.
- Customizable 'permission denied' messages
Issues & Conflicts
Plugin Conflicts: If you notice that PwnFilter conflicts/interferes with another chat-related plugin, edit your config.yml, go to the "ADVANCED" section at the bottom, unhide the priority you want to change (by removing the # in front of the line), and change the priority from the default setting "Lowest" to another setting like "Highest". This can sometimes resolve conflicts, otherwise ask on our forum or create a ticket.
Permission Bypass: The permission node pwnfilter.bypass is automatically granted to OP and players with * permission nodes. If you do not want these players bypassing the filter at all, you must negate this permission node for them in your Permissions Plugin's files.
Plugin Metrics
This plugin utilizes Hidendra's plugin metrics system, which means that some information is collected and sent to mcstats.org. If you wish to disable this feature, you can do so by opting out, which you can do in the PluginMetrics' config file under /YourServer/plugins/PluginMetrics/
Links & Info
- PwnPlantGrowth - Customize, modify, block all plant growth with varying configurations, including biome based and light level based farming.
- PwnChickenLay - Configure or block how fast chickens can lay eggs, or replace eggs with other items like diamonds, bricks, anything you can think of.
- ResPwn - Configure useful and fun player respawn options like temporary forcefields, armor and weapons.
- PwnPvpBalance - Balance the tide of uneven game mechanics with options to help players with poor PvP skills be more competitive, and give good players a better challenge.
- PwnFilter Regex Forum - Have questions about using RegEx or want to show your rules.txt off? Visit our RegEx forum here on DBO!
- Pwn9.com - Visit the Pwn9 Gaming Community, the place we call home. Check out our Minecraft servers, other game servers and fun gaming community.
- Discord Server: Join us @ https://discord.gg/qde6rVn - feel free to ask PwnFilter or RegEx questions on the channel or just come hang out with us.
- Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server. These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk. ci.sagely.ca
Donate
All of our "Pwn-" plugins are completely free of charge. We work hard to bring you the best, powerful, and up-to-date plugins. If we have helped you in any way, please consider a donation of any amount (Using the "Donate" button on the top-right of this page, or clicking HERE). All donations are GREATLY appreciated for all of the time that goes into this plugin and support.
EpicATrain's version 10.0 filter has been temporarily removed, due to a few issues. The classic language filter is still available here: http://pastebin.com/u/EpicATrain
@Sage905
I think what they mean by, when they use a multi server chat plugin, they would like Pwnfilter to manage the chat going through bungeecord, as bungeecord is used as a proxy for all the game network.
I know when I used CloudChat about a year ago, if players were talking in just the server itself, and not transmitting the info to the other server pwnfilter worked just fine. However if they joined one of the channels that transmitted the chat to all the servers linked through bungeecord, they could freely talk as if pwnfilter wasn't installed.
Just an example and theory of my understanding. I have not much clue how this would be accomplished.
Thanks for updating us man! Really appreciated. This is the best chat plugin I have ever used by far.
@NoHoPeLess
As EpicATrain mentioned, this has been something that people have asked for for a while.. But the thing is.. What do you mean by "Bungeecord support"? Do you want PwnFilter to forward messages to bungeecord? If so, how?
@shop1126
There is some update action in the works as Sage is working on making PwnFilter work with Sponge servers, Bukkit should also get an update.
I would honestly love an update! Hopefully something happens :)
A timeout action would be useful instead of doing an action immediately...
@NoHoPeLess
I've been wanting this feature from Sage for years. I never got it, gave up, so I moved on.
@saxons12
create a regex script that strips or converts those into US characters. (not sure how that works with the Turkish language)
It seems like turkish characters, or something else locks up the regex method in PwnFilter. How can I fix this? http://pastebin.com/mHxabEME http://pastebin.com/CYUC1uuy http://pastebin.com/DyyTcWtG Thank you.
I have been running EpicATrain's version 10.0 filter with PwnFilter build #78 with no issues. I did have to edit some of the filters but works good. I was wondering how to allow URLs?
Bungeecord support would be so epic as hell!
@QubeCraftMC
We use PwnFilter on our 1.8.7 server without issue. Did you check your logs to see if one of your filter rules was causing the problem?
-Sage
CI server is back up: http://ci.sagely.ca
I hope to make some updates to PwnFilter in the coming weeks, to fix some bugs, and make some enhancements. No promises, though.
-Sage
Just a warning: Do NOT use the latest release on 1.8.7, I had continuous CPU spikes for over 24 hours until I tracked it down to being PwnFilter.
ci.toal.ca seems to be down, maybe someone could possibly fix that? Thanks!
Will 3.3.1 in CB 1.7.2?
Does anyone have the sign filter working on Spigot 1.8.6? Getting this error when users make signs:
I'm Sorry, But Only American English ASCII Characters Are Allowed
Chat and command filtering seem to be working fine.
UPDATE: I see this is in my Utilities.txt file. Is this necessary for other EpicATrain chat, command filtering? Or can someone suggest how to modify?
Just to address everyone who may be having problems with PwnFilter for spigot 1.8, I'm unsure of the state of the project, I haven't worked on it myself in over a year.. and I don't know if Sage has done any work on it since the last update in December. As it is, I would consider this plugin "inactive" until there is new news.
I am having that same issue, where it randomly out of no where stops working then doesn't even give me errors!!
I'm also having an issue where occasionally PwnFilter works, but randomly it stops filtering. No errors or anything, it loads correctly on server-startup, it just randomly stops working.