Minecraft Griefing Bots Will DESTROY Your Server –

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While I don't host servers on minecraft, I can give some tips to assist preventing yall from being griefed.

– Firewalls, it basicily blocks any outside ports that are trying to connect to your server except the ones used by your Minecraft server (usually 25565). So you can allow certain IPs to connect. I did a simple google search for decent firewalls and Comodo Firewall comes up with decent results which would help ya. (Sidenote, it seems like a decent alteranative for other expsive premium virus protectors)

– Encrypted Keys instead of simple Passwords, Honestly the worst way to defend your server is having passwords not encrypted, using Encrypted Keys will help alot. They'll have to decifer it and it'll take them along time to do so, so basicly they'll lose hope and move on. Unless your some popular streamer. There are alot of ways to add extra security to your Encrypted Keys aswell so I wouldn't just stop at adding Encrypted Keys.

– Proxy Servers can also help prevent ya from being DDosed(for example streaming), So using Google or Amazon servers as a buffer layer to prevent players from retrieving your ip with there scanners.

– Plugins alongside with Whitelist for accounts. Honestly bungeeguard seems super good to have if you're interested in server hosting. It basicily works by creating Keys(tokens) and its only accessable from your computer(Server host) and the Proxy Server. So if your Computer doesn't reconize the Connecting Port, it'll just boot 'em realy quick. You'll prob want a Plugin that monitors any connection failures and auto bans those IPs, while there is VPN, You can prob find a VPN Banner Plugin aswell to prevent IP Avoiding Bans.

i kinda want access to this server finder tbh, not to grief but to see if i can just play in them cuz i struggle to find basic vinilla servers.

Augma: Uh, I haaave to grief servers NOW, or I WON'T be able to LATERRR! See, it's ok.

I'm honestly down with griefing cracked servers. I mean… they're already servers that shouldn't exist. So, ya know.

ServerSeeker is by and large a grief community. It’s a community I’m only in because it’s so sketchy that I felt I should keep an eye on it.

Wild to hear they supposedly discourage griefing because that’s simply not true. People tell stories about their escapades right in the Discord lol.

The fifth column once targeted me. They accused me and my friends of being racist and other false stuff. They’re really weird tbh. But as long as you don’t give them a reaction they leave you alone. Also setup DDoS protection on your server and enable a whitelist. Then they really can’t do anything

with server scanners i just join random servers and i play with them peacefully and i made some good friends and memories using them, but nowadays i instantly get banned from any server i join because so much griefers nowadays.

I just use Auth in my cracked server. The server is already public so its not an issue for me.

One wat of protecting your server is by playing with mods (mods that add content). The bots likely are using vanilla mc. Which cannot connect and play on a server that has a mod installed as that mod also has to be installed client sided. But anyway turn on whitelist

this JUST happened to me lol

i mean… the server i run is a tech server. spawn has a 50×50 chunk radius with literal void and new spawning players instantly spawn in the void unless a member comes to save him… soo……. i mean. i think we're safe?

towards the end when you showed the list of logged IP addresses, I noticed something: some of them are from public cloud providers
that's going to be a bigger problem in the future in the way IT infrastructure is getting developed these days, because the goal of so called "Trusted Computing" is that cloud providers can not tell anymore what their customers actually do on their infrastructure, even if they tried; and they are actually not as far off as some people may think
so eventually the only way cloud providers will be able to actually stop the contract with these customers would be by logging the incoming and outgoing packets traffic on their routers, but there are way to obscure that too (ever heard of TOR?)
and don't forget, some cloud providers are also ISPs, and differentiating their cloud IPs from their home customer IPs can be kinda hard, sometimes even impossible