Finding Vandals

[GreenZombie]

I have a direwolf20 server that has had some instances of players being griefed.

Now, we are investigating adding server sided permissions mods, but in the meantime - I have two issues:

1. discovering what the vandalized players need to have restored. This seems to require frequent backups.

2. discovering who the perpetrators are. Are the chatlogs with player arrival and logoff messages actually logged someplace? Are there tools that can scrape info from them? Given all the player.dat files are there tools/mods that I can use to examine the inventories and locations of offline players so I can see if they possess incriminating items? What tools or methods are normally used to find and ban griefers?

 

[mc.crab]

Unless you have a mod/plugin that tracks blocks placed or broken, items taken from chests... restoring a backup or giving players the missing items back might be the only solution.

ForgeEssentials allows protecting areas and logging player actions and a lot of other features https://github.com/ForgeEssentials/ForgeEssentials/wiki
Mytown2 allows players to protect areas http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum...817-mytown-2-0-3-2b-finally-in-beta-vault-and
FTB Utilities allows players to protect areas, allow admins to see player inventories http://www.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft/237102-ftb-utilities

Server logs should show player login and logout times.

 

[daliena]

If Prism is compatible - it is one of the best anti-grief plugins in my opinion. We have used it on Direwolf20 server, it tracks everything, you can customize which events you wish to be logged, how long to keep data for, you can also use it to restore/rollback.

 

[mc.crab]

Prism is great, but it requires Cauldron which is not compatible with FE. To my knowledge Prism devs are working on porting Prism to Sponge, and the Cauldron version has not been updated in a year.

 

[SmotPokin42000]

There's logblock, though it would also require cauldron. As far catching them, you need something like supervanish.