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[TOG] The Owner's Guide!
Hello dear Planet Minecrafters and server owners,
I'm starting with a series of guides for server owners adn today's special is: What to do after my server gets infestated with griefers?
This guide it's mostly an answer to the people that got a horrible griefer infestation going on at their server and for them to react properly to such situation, it's also a great guide to prevent such episodes from happening.
Prevention! YAY!
Here are some nice tools you should totally consider to PREVENT griefing attacks:
A plugin to prevent it all, and solve at once griefing and such: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/grief-prevention/
- ChunkAutoClaimer: This is a plugin that automatically claims chunks (16x16) for players when they build "x" ammount of blocks. They don't have to do anything but build and they will let the work for the server, which is going to help him survive griefing. (for more, click here)
- Factions: Factions plugin it's pretty complex, but it can be used simply. It allows players to create factins (groups), claim land (and get it protected) and invite friends. Obviously it's far more complex, it has stuff like PvP, Warzones, SafeZones and an economy system. (for more, click here)
- Towny: A.K.A. Towny Advanced, it's a WAY too complex plugin, it allows you to create towns, with majors and and "politic" system, with a pretty sweet economy setup and obviously, protection for the whole town against griefing. Only the town "leader" will state who can and who can't build/destroy there. It's great to compite with Factions but I guess that's pretty complex for the purpose here. You can always give it a chance, why not? (for more, click here)
- Residence or areaguard: This two do pretty much the same, it's personal (that can always be shared) land protection based on cuboids and, if desired, managed by server economy. Check more aboutresidence and areaguard :D
- LWC & Lockette: Both pretty similar, this are plugins that lock chests, doors, furnaces and such to personal (again, or shared) use. It's pretty safe and lightweight and since it's player managed, less stress for you.
If you have a small server and maximum 10-20 players online, you can do something I love to do: Teleport (while in vanish mode) to players and see what they are doing. If they are just minin' craftin' and enjoyin' you can join the fun and get known as the "friendly admin" but if you see that they are getitng a BUNCH of diamonds or griefer, you can start dropping some ban hammers.
Reacting to the situation properly!
The console it's your friend, use it!
The first step when you realize that you are pretty much screwed is stopping the server. Some say that with a fresh mind people think better, I'm not suggesting you to go buy mints at the local store to "fresh up" or anything like that, I suggest that you stop the server (gracefully if possible) and think clearly without any console to beep beep boom! or the people calling you through skype looking for a hope in order to get their creations back.
How to stop the server gracefully?
Type (on the console or in-game)
/stop <-- In-game
or
stop <-- Console
Some software and server managers such as McMyAdmin, multicraft or such have a stop button, use it!
Why stopping the server gracefully?
If you don't then you might mess up with data saves and your map can get lost. Just to give you an example, shutting down the console by pressing the red "x" on the corner, or killing the process from terminal or simply not doing what written above it's just as if you are rendering a video and then you cut the power supply. All the video render (in most cases) will get lost, forever.
Ok so I stopped the server, what's now?
The next step is simple: Whitelist the server and add only your most trusted people (for trusted people I mean REALLY trusted people, someone that you trust to blow up your server and you know that he wont)
After this, load a backup of your map (I'm guessing that you have one) OR if you have a block logger such as logblock, hawkeye, Coreprotect (my favorite) or similar, rollback the entire server by the player's name and by time. This is the way how you should do it:
Rolling back with different plugins
d=days / h= hours / m= minutes [F.e: 1d3h22m is 1 day 3 hours and 22 minutes]
For the procedure above consider that: this lags pretty hard the server specially on MySQL based loggers (hawk or Logblock.
"I'm the server owner. I HAVE THE POWER!"
Read that and remember it.
Remember that you are the owner of the server and that the staff at your host is there to help you. Most of the hosts have online services and software (such as McMyAdmin, Multicraft or similar) that save backups of your world daily, simply ask your host about how to do it.
Extreme case! - What if a griefer gets OP'ed?
This is mostly an answer to my previous blog :)
If a griefer gets OP'ed (because you did trusing him to be a great staff member, because someone betrayed you or for any reason) then the steps to solve this follow:
I hope you enjoyed this little (long :L) blog. Use it as a reference (favorite, diamond it or whatever to keep it in mind) in case something like this happens to you.
I've done this MANY times in different servers and I can tell you, I've never failed so far with it.
I'm participating (with this) on the contest, love?
A diamond it's the shiny way to say "thanks" :D / Join the Delta Team server NOW! read more *here*
If a griefer gets OP'ed (because you did trusing him to be a great staff member, because someone betrayed you or for any reason) then the steps to solve this follow:
- Stop the server (gracefully) - Read above for more info :D
- (if he banned you) unban yourself from the ban.txt file, you can find it on the server ROOT folder *the one where craftbukkit.jar is placed)
- Deop him (and everyone else if possible) via the ops.txt file (same as ban.txt)
- (if he deoped you) OP yourself from the ops.txt file
- Don't trust anyone OP and follow my previous guide!
I hope you enjoyed this little (long :L) blog. Use it as a reference (favorite, diamond it or whatever to keep it in mind) in case something like this happens to you.
I've done this MANY times in different servers and I can tell you, I've never failed so far with it.
I'm participating (with this) on the contest, love?
A diamond it's the shiny way to say "thanks" :D / Join the Delta Team server NOW! read more *here*
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can you do a banner like this for me?
It will be much appreciated and all credit toward the banner will go to you as mentioned in my upcoming blog. Thanks! PM me for further details...
And whenever I reload server my gamemode Changes
and your Server is Great!
default:
permissions:
-essentials.build
-alltheotherpluginsandpermissions.theirnodes
build:true
Or just look for it on the site of PEX
:)
I would like to say, tho, that people commonly like only 1 part of it (for example the log block) so it's nice to let them know which is great for each task, obviously a plugin that does it all it's a great option for someone that actually uses them all :D
And you can disable the bits you don't want, although I don't have any features disabled.