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Griefing - The Basics
Q. What is a griefer?
A. A griefer is a person or Minecraft player who "griefs" any builds of another player.
Q. What is "griefing"?
A. "Griefing" is the act of destroying, deleting, exploding/using TNT, setting on fire, or (in general) harming a build of another player drastically.
Q. What else do griefers do?
A. Griefers, in most cases, kill before griefing. Most use Xray to get diamond armor and enchanted swords very easily. Others use Radar/Nodus and hunt down innocent, vulnerable members that are easier to grief. Some even kiss up to ops and owners in servers to get opped themselves so they have more commands to use when they destroy.
The Pros and Cons
Griefing is, in general, a terrible thing to do. Innocent players' builds are destroyed. In the worst cases, builds with hours put into it are completely deleted with plugins and add-ons such as WorldEdit or hacked clients. Servers are "redecorated" and spawns covered in lava so the players have no way to completely respawn. In fact, some that have possibly paid hundreds of dollars to Minecraft server hosts are destroyed by griefing teams and shut down for good.
However, griefing can sometimes be very entertaining. A semi-famous Minecraft griefing time called TeamAvolition has over 160,000 subscribers and about 31,000,000 total upload views. Some servers they have griefed have been shut down and/or reset on a different IP address due to so much damage they had done.
In some cases, servers deserve to be griefed. See this video here of a video by TeamAvolition, recorded last year on an old server called ChaosCraft. The server had an abusive staff who took advantage of their commands, banned innocent players as a joke every so often, and an owner who was very biased towards religion and made his/her players go to "church" at spawn every Sunday. There had been many complaints about this server and the griefing team had decided to do something about it.
Most servers are anti-griefing and against the rules. Griefers bring disappointment to creative and survival servers, whether or not they do little damage or destroy the entire server. The presence of griefers is usually not tolerated by owners, mods, admins or the regular players themselves.
Faction servers are easy exceptions. In faction servers, people are allowed to willingly raid each other to their satisfaction. Other than the spawn and special warps, the majority of faction servers aren't protected and left for the players to decide what happens to it. People plan and create faction bases, create armor, enchant swords, and PVP until there is no one left to PVP.
Overall, griefing is an easy no-no on servers. The destruction griefers can make can range from a few wool blocks to an entire spawn (or all of the server worlds!). Server staffs usually aren't willing to risk having their server destroyed, much less have to stoop as low as switching the IP so other griefers can't come on and repeat history.
Why Players Grief
The reason why most griefers grief remains unknown to many of us, but we can still, very easily, guess why they try to blow up servers for no good reason. One is because they may want to see other players' reactions to their builds, houses and little villages being destroyed before their eyes.
Another is for attention. They may be recording and want to attract new viewers by doing something interesting or different. They could be desperate for more views on YouTube or had been requested by a subscriber to find a server and start destroying!
They could hate the players of the server or have a bad back story with the owner. Maybe the griefer had been banned on one of the owner's past servers and wanted payback. Maybe they wanted to avenge a friend of theirs who had been banned. Whatever their back story may be, and can't be good in any kind of way.
Griefers could want to test out hacked clients/modded clients by doing so. Nodus is a very popular hacked client (although very infamous for cheaters in server minigames such as Minecraft Survival Games and despised by loyal PVP players) but takes some time to figure out by the looks of it, so it's a major possibility.
Griefers, of course, could just want to grief for fun! They might love seeing the players of the server rage or the owner's (or staff/mod/admin's) reaction to the destruction. They could like TNT and explosions (and maybe, just maybe, like to hug creepers every so often).
The possibilities are endless. We will never fully understand the mind of a griefer (unless we become one, of course), but until then, we can sure keep them off just for a little while. ;)
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Q. What is a griefer?
A. A griefer is a person or Minecraft player who "griefs" any builds of another player.
Q. What is "griefing"?
A. "Griefing" is the act of destroying, deleting, exploding/using TNT, setting on fire, or (in general) harming a build of another player drastically.
Q. What else do griefers do?
A. Griefers, in most cases, kill before griefing. Most use Xray to get diamond armor and enchanted swords very easily. Others use Radar/Nodus and hunt down innocent, vulnerable members that are easier to grief. Some even kiss up to ops and owners in servers to get opped themselves so they have more commands to use when they destroy.
The Pros and Cons
Griefing is, in general, a terrible thing to do. Innocent players' builds are destroyed. In the worst cases, builds with hours put into it are completely deleted with plugins and add-ons such as WorldEdit or hacked clients. Servers are "redecorated" and spawns covered in lava so the players have no way to completely respawn. In fact, some that have possibly paid hundreds of dollars to Minecraft server hosts are destroyed by griefing teams and shut down for good.
However, griefing can sometimes be very entertaining. A semi-famous Minecraft griefing time called TeamAvolition has over 160,000 subscribers and about 31,000,000 total upload views. Some servers they have griefed have been shut down and/or reset on a different IP address due to so much damage they had done.
In some cases, servers deserve to be griefed. See this video here of a video by TeamAvolition, recorded last year on an old server called ChaosCraft. The server had an abusive staff who took advantage of their commands, banned innocent players as a joke every so often, and an owner who was very biased towards religion and made his/her players go to "church" at spawn every Sunday. There had been many complaints about this server and the griefing team had decided to do something about it.
Most servers are anti-griefing and against the rules. Griefers bring disappointment to creative and survival servers, whether or not they do little damage or destroy the entire server. The presence of griefers is usually not tolerated by owners, mods, admins or the regular players themselves.
Faction servers are easy exceptions. In faction servers, people are allowed to willingly raid each other to their satisfaction. Other than the spawn and special warps, the majority of faction servers aren't protected and left for the players to decide what happens to it. People plan and create faction bases, create armor, enchant swords, and PVP until there is no one left to PVP.
Overall, griefing is an easy no-no on servers. The destruction griefers can make can range from a few wool blocks to an entire spawn (or all of the server worlds!). Server staffs usually aren't willing to risk having their server destroyed, much less have to stoop as low as switching the IP so other griefers can't come on and repeat history.
Why Players Grief
The reason why most griefers grief remains unknown to many of us, but we can still, very easily, guess why they try to blow up servers for no good reason. One is because they may want to see other players' reactions to their builds, houses and little villages being destroyed before their eyes.
Another is for attention. They may be recording and want to attract new viewers by doing something interesting or different. They could be desperate for more views on YouTube or had been requested by a subscriber to find a server and start destroying!
They could hate the players of the server or have a bad back story with the owner. Maybe the griefer had been banned on one of the owner's past servers and wanted payback. Maybe they wanted to avenge a friend of theirs who had been banned. Whatever their back story may be, and can't be good in any kind of way.
Griefers could want to test out hacked clients/modded clients by doing so. Nodus is a very popular hacked client (although very infamous for cheaters in server minigames such as Minecraft Survival Games and despised by loyal PVP players) but takes some time to figure out by the looks of it, so it's a major possibility.
Griefers, of course, could just want to grief for fun! They might love seeing the players of the server rage or the owner's (or staff/mod/admin's) reaction to the destruction. They could like TNT and explosions (and maybe, just maybe, like to hug creepers every so often).
The possibilities are endless. We will never fully understand the mind of a griefer (unless we become one, of course), but until then, we can sure keep them off just for a little while. ;)
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