Aizistral

Research on Minecraft's global bans

Date: 02.09.2022
Last Update: 24.12.2022
Author: Aizistral
In collaboration with: ejaussie, also known as British Empireball#3906

While I wish this could have been conducted sooner, this is the first verifiable ban case where I could contact the person banned. Some couple weeks ago I even purchased second Minecraft account with the sole intent of committing what would appear as bannable offense and being reported by one of my friends afterwards, which I sucessfully did; however, no action from moderation team followed. At the time this lead me to conclude that reports are not yet actioned on, which was perfectly explainable by unfixed exploits with chat reporting in 1.19.2. This case might indicate that reports are indeed actioned now, at least since the date of this research, but it is also possible that ban occured due to automated chat monitoring on Realms (see [Our Commitment to Player Safe

kennytv

Signed chat

This gist intends on clearing up some of the misinformation surrounding signed chat/the reporting feature Mojang has added to Minecraft 1.19.1. Here you can find both technical information as well as a general explanation of how these work.

Profile keys

After joining a server, clients now send a profile key used for verifying a message's authenticity. This key and thus the whole signing process is optional, but by default, servers enforce secure profiles for clients to send chat messages. Whenever the player sends a chat message and has a key associated, the message will be signed using their own private key, which the server then verifies using the public key sent after join. Assuming signature, timestamp, and message contents line up, the message goes through.

On the other end, clients can also require all broadcasted player messages to be signed, disregarding the ones without sender verified signatures.

Message signatures

FxMorin

Introduction

Let me start by clarifying that the following doesn't exclusively apply to Debugify, but they serve as an excellent illustration of the heinous behavior outlined in the following. The mods in question shall therefore be collectively referred to as "Scummy Mods".

Scummy Mods are mods that incorporate or outright copy foreign code bases, without permission from the original author. They commonly state to either "replace" or "include" the original work, if any mention is given at all. Developing a mod is not easy. Many mod creators sacrifice significant chunks of their personal time and resources to their creations, essentially for free. Curseforge offers a symbolic compensation for the hours poured, but it's usually insignificant and just a nice bonus.

The Problem

The majority of the original projects are still in development. Since the creators behind Scummy Mods typically do not understand the code they copied to begin with, they lack the knowledge required to eliminate the bugs that will

SkyyySi

NONE OF THESE CLIENTS ARE VERIFIED BY ME FOR SECURITY OR ANYTHING ELSE! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

These are the current alternatives (with links when possible):

• NewPipe (which you should have either way for youtube-dl/yt-dlp integration)
• NewPipe fork by polymorphicshade, which includes SponsorBlock support.
• LibreTube (still in early beta)
• A web browser with uBlock Origin (or another ad-blocker; Enhancer for YouTube has one build-in, but uBlock is universal and more powerfull, in addition to allowing to also remove non-advertisement parts of the website, like the top shelf with recommended tags / search querries), Enhancer for YouTube, SponsorBlock and [Return YouTube Dislike](https://

RozeFound

from pathlib import Path, PurePosixPath

import pkg_resources as dist

try: dist.require(['tomli']) # python -m pip install tomli
except dist.DistributionNotFound as Error:
    exit(Error.report() + f'\nThe following dependency is missing: {Error.req}"')

from tomli import load as parse_toml

TrueCP6

Here you can find a list of Forge mods with links to their Fabric alternatives.

Major Mods Originally On Forge

The Aether (A Reimagining) (not complete)

Applied Energistics 2

Better Animals Plus

gullyn

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williambl

[13:13] Prospector: modmuss started OML (open mod loader) which was targeting minecraft 1.10, as a project mostly for fun. a bunch of people jumped on board with it

[13:14] Prospector: there was a big problem with this project, and that was that it didn't really do anything better than forge. like there was a list of events people wanted to add and it was basically just the forge event list lol

[13:14] Prospector: there weren't very many...new ideas with it

[13:14] Prospector: other than the fact that it used an open set of mappings, instead of MCP (called Open Mappings I believe)

[13:16] Prospector: OML pretty much died, and as 1.11 snapshots were rolling around, asie and modmuss started Fabric (after 2 name changes, Chorus and Prismarine) to play with these snapshots because some interesting changes were being made to the code, specifically to itemstacks. Fabric was determined to do things differently, using a modular approach, so you had fabric-loader, fabric-event-entity, fabric-resources, fabric-comm

comp500

This list has moved!

See https://github.com/comp500/fabric-serverside-mods for the latest mod list!

LambdAurora

The list is moving out!

If you share this list, please use this link instead: https://lambdaurora.dev/optifine_alternatives

It may still be only a redirection link, but it will have a better web display of the list soon. And the list being on GitHub/GitHub pages improves load times.

The gist version of this list will stop being updated.

Why?