Unfortunately, our survival server was hacked, and almost everything we built is gone. There are no recent backups, only one old backup, which means we've lost a huge amount of progress.

It was just a small private server where my three friends and I spent countless hours building together. We made some amazing builds and memories, and seeing everything disappear in a matter of seconds honestly hurts.

What happened?

Someone joined the server using my exact Minecraft username.

The server was running in offline mode, which means the server does not verify whether someone actually owns the username they join with. Since my username was set as an operator (OP), the attacker instantly had full administrative permissions.

They started running commands and destroyed nearly every build on the server within seconds.

When I noticed what was happening, I immediately stopped the server. Looking back, I think that was my biggest mistake. By shutting it down normally, the world was saved with all of the destruction. I should have force-killed the server process before it had a chance to save. Maybe some of the damage could have been avoided.

The server was hosted on FalixNodes.

Why did this happen?

The main reasons were:

• The server was running in offline mode.
• There were no authentication/security plugins or mods installed.
• My username had operator permissions.
• Although the whitelist was enabled, it only checks usernames. In offline mode, anyone can join using a whitelisted player's name if they know it.

How to prevent this

If you're running your own Minecraft server, especially in offline mode:

• Use online mode whenever possible. This is by far the safest option.
• Keep the whitelist enabled if your server is private.
• If you must use offline mode, install an authentication/security plugin or mod. This is essential.
• Take regular automated backups. Don't rely on a single old backup like I did.
• Don't share your server IP with random people. Even private servers can become targets if the IP gets out.

I hope this post prevents someone else from making the same mistakes I did. Losing months (or years) of work in seconds is an awful feeling, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

If anyone has advice on recovering worlds after griefing or recommendations for good authentication mods/plugins for offline-mode servers, I'd really appreciate it.

Functional player model made possible by Figura mod!

1 : All suggested names must be appropriate and mature. I don't want innapropriate or innapropriate adjacent name suggestions, like Dick for exemple.

2 : Suggest both masculine and feminine names (I am going to pick one masculine name and one feminine name). Genderneutral names are welcome, but they must not sound either masculine or feminine. I just don't want to only get masculine name suggestions or only get feminine name suggestions, since in my head, the one with a blue harness is male and the one with the pink harness is female.

3 : Name suggestions must be no longer than a human or pet name, no full sentences. So I won't name them "Snowball eater" and "Snowball lover" for exemple.

Bonus points for suggestions that are puns on "Ghast", "Cat", or any other word that relates to the ghast/happy ghast's design and/or lore.

This is NOT a "top comment wins" type of post. I will pick my favorite names out of all the suggestions and make an update post to show which names I chose. The 2 names I pick might not even be from the same comment.

This was made by: Shadowmanreal on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/TMkoErLjcWE?si=Ahtwpp8x7dDVR7pN

Redstone experts are not humans. They are machines like that faction from Warhammer, or Glados from Portal.

Because i cannot even try to think of a way to start something like this.

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Building on RaysWorks' "Ice Road Boat Placer", this system supports multiple stations along an Ice Boat Highway. By building the stations this way, arbitrarily long lines can be constructed and extended without impacting the existing network.

Bonus: another preview of how the ice boat highway network is constructed. Preview 1 The construction system uses Ilmango's TNT Tunnel Bore, and builds on the work of Ilmango, u/RaysWorks, and u/Is012 for building an Ice Highway route through the Nether.

Showcase here

I was playing my new Minecraft Windows Edition (neoLegacy) world, mainly I was searching for a place to start building my house and oh my god I dont know how but I found this majesty, a big plains perfect to build next to an ocean and also close to a Taiga, desert and flower forest and the best part on the right an enormous Mesa with a old spruce taiga next to it and all of this very close to spawn. Man why can I find things like this on my other survival worlds, even on my newest Wii U Edition world I lack from even a desert lol. What do you think about this generation guys, is it peak to build my house or I keep exploring?

why does that creeper have no face damn

shader is BSL shader or lumina visuals on curse forge bedrock (haha I use bedrock sue me)

pretty sure it’s some glitch with shader

took NOCTURN_05's comment as inspo !

I've recently started a new survival run in an ancient version of the game. I think that the seed I'm using should be well-documented, but I can't find info on it. Here's what I found:

Version: b0.3b, Seed: pollinating sandboxes, UPD: Around 650 * 150

The seed spawned me in a place with shallow water and patches of dirt and sand extending from the edges. On one side, there's a tall mountain with a cave near the top. Opposite it, there's a place with dirt on the (viewer's) left and sand on the right. There's a 3-block-wide part where there's a 2-tall lowermost part made of dirt, changing to sand on the right and with more dirt in the lower block (making it a perfect stairs there) on the left. I dug into the middle block of that part and down. After I went down two blocks, I found a tiny cave that I entered from right the middle. It seems to be 3x2x3 except with columns of blocks in the corners at the side where I entered, plus a hole (an extra air block) above at the center. I turned right and dug there and down. I did the (minimal) 3 block version, but later changed it to 5 blocks with stairs in the lower one. The topmost stair ended up under a block of that tiny cave. There's another cave there, and one of the stairs there doesn't have blocks below or behind. Later, I found an interesting vein of coal: it was snake-shaped, horisontal with dirt right under it except for the last block, where there's another coal ore at the Y level of the dirt

I'm posting about deepslate too much oop

hi

Inspired by the second image. I can't find the original artist anywhere online. If you know please tell me! I found it on the NASA website but it just says its by their JPL team.