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no X-Ray / X-Ray prevention

I am sure that everyone knows how annoying x-ray hackers are.
Certainly, every server host wants their player to play “fair”.

Bukkit and Spigot have plugins against x-ray.
The plugin changes every covered block (so the ones the player can’t see) into something random and sends that information to the player. Since he only receives useless data, he can’t use his x-ray hack.


What I want:

An option in the configs of the server that allows me to toggle a new option called “X-Ray prevention”. (The default should be false, since this feature will cost some server resources)

 

How “X-Ray prevention” could work:

-Just as the solution the plugin provides. The server should send false information to the player for all the blocks that are not visible.

-Another approach would be that the server only changes not visible blocks, that can be specified in file, into stone. This might be easier for the server than changing every not visible block.
Example:
Write the ID of iron ore, diamond ore and lapis ore into a specific file. These blocks now will be replaced with stone until they can be seen by the player. (next to air, glass, fence, lava, water)

-The last idea of mine is to send only the information of the blocks that can be seen by the player.

 


I hope you will consider my idea for an upcoming Minecraft version.

 


By the way, I don’t want to use Spigot, because some mechanics are different on those servers.
(You can take mob spawning and redstone for instance)

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    I like this idea, but it should be toggleable if added. Ideally off by default. Servers should be able to choose whether or not to enable this anti-cheat stuff.

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    I can also see this being quite strenuous on a server. So yeah, definitely needs to be toggleable in the config.yml

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    Why not have it it only hide blocks that are greater than a few blocks away from visible blocks, as otherwise when mining you would expose the uncovered blocks before the server sends the true type

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    Hugh Williams,

    To do that, they would have to fundamentally change the way servers send world data to players, and it would be too much work for something that is, as of now, a non-issue.