Spartan AntiCheat & AntiExploit v4.0.8.8

News:

• Compatibility for a popular plugin named ItemsAdder has been implemented. Please keep in mind that positive results are not in any way promised/guaranteed, nor should they meet everyone’s expectations such as concurrent detections or future keeping of the compatibility. This is simply a try to make Spartan more universally applicable to servers.

Logs:

1. Corrected a few ElytraMove physics firework false positives.
2. Corrected a few KillAura block raytrace mathematical inaccuracy false positives.
3. The GhostHand check will now be disabled by default.
4. Removed a checks.yml configuration option. (GhostHand.enable_only_on_minigame_servers)
5. Updated the online documentation of the plugin with recent data.
6. Slightly optimised the Damage handler with less logical statements.
7. Greatly improved the Damage handler with coverage for more combat situations.
8. Corrected several movement false positives caused by elytras & off-hand riptide tridents.
9. Corrected a console error caused by the AutoSync compatibility.
10. Potentially corrected a Fly jump motion bypass.
11. Implemented compatibility for a plugin named ItemsAdder.
12. Greatly improved the Player utilities with better cross version compatibility.
13. Corrected a logical bug in the FastBreak check that prevented it from working fully.
14. Corrected a few Jesus walking/sprinting on top of water bypasses.
15. Slightly improved the False Positive Detection & Performance Optimizer features to be more strict with disabled logs.
16. Greatly improved the Config utilities with better method calls, unneeded method removals & method improvements.
17. Corrected a bug in the API methods that results in null-pointer console errors.
18. The Criticals check will now disable when many entities are nearby, such as mob farms.
19. Slightly improved the Search Engine handler with more organised methods.
20. Corrected a bug where too many commands would be listed in the Manage Checks inventory menu.
21. Slightly improved the Invisible Block handler to ignore bedrock blocks.

Logs:

1. Corrected a few ImpossibleActions tower sensitive block false positives.
2. Slightly improved the Move utilities with better artificial fall damage.
3. Slightly improved the Cancel Violation handler with more appropriate prevention selection.
4. Slightly improved the From Location handler with more ways to update a location.
5. Corrected a few IrregularMovements jump building false positives.
6. Slightly improved the Spartan Player object with more frequent cache updates.
7. Part of the IrregularMovements step detection will disable when the Skript plugin is enabled.
8. Noticeably improved the Search Engine with new and more universal methods.
9. Slightly improved the IrregularMovements hop detection with the help of the Search Engine handler.
10. Implemented a new ElytraMove detection named physics to improve the overall performance of the check.
11. Implemented a new checks.yml configuration option. (ElytraMove.check_physics)

News:

• This is a simple maintenance update, making sure the plugin is up to date and running correctly. Due to recent time limitations, an insignificant Jesus bypass will be fixed in a future update. I went past my update schedule this time, because why not. Any issues, report them privately via Discord, Platform or Email, and take care.

Logs:

1. Greatly improved the Search Engine handler with more useful methods.
2. Slightly improved the Damage handler for better fireball entity coverage.
3. Corrected a few bug in the Player utilities that prevented extra accuracy from kicking in.
4. Greatly improved the Lag Leniences with more universal methods.
5. Reworked parts of the Configuration system due to a rare issue where settings.yml will reset.
6. Slightly optimised the Violations feature with fewer method calls.
7. Slightly improved the Configuration system with a more universal punishment algorithm.
8. Potentially corrected a few fireball explosion knockback movement false positives.
9. Corrected a few KillAura block raytrance vehicle false positives.
10. Corrected a few KillAura block raytrace bypasse caused by a semi-broken Block utilities method.
11. Slightly optimised the Hack Prevention object with faster methods.
12. Slightly improved the Hack Prevention object with better preventions.
13. Potentially corrected a False Positive Detection concurrent modification console error.
14. Corrected a few KillAura distance non-player entity false positives.

Notes:

1. Some Jesus walking movements will be prevented with a future update, despite not being advantageous for their version.
2. Fly false positives caused by scaffolding blocks were researched but not found, most likely a cross-version issue.
3. Preventions were studied but were already significantly good, so only a few improvements were made in delays & hacker identification consideration.

Logs:

1. Corrected a Hack Prevention object console error.
2. Spartan will no longer appear in the kick, ban or warning reasons.
3. Corrected a few Jesus ypos abstract liquid blocks false positives.
4. TPS will now be strict with its requirement of 18 TPS or more.
5. Search Engine data will be cleared when someone is unbanned by almost any plugin.
6. Tracking handlers will no longer run when checks/detections cannot also run.
7. Noticeably optimised the SQL feature with faster & more performant log retrieval times.
8. Corrected a small frequency issue in the TPS system that caused the protection to not always work.
9. Greatly improved the Player utilities with more adaptive methods.
10. Corrected a potential Cloud feature bug in the Player utilities.
11. Noticeably optimised the Cloud feature with less requests being made.
12. Potentially corrected a few IrregularMovements step above block false positives.
13. Noticeably optimised the Configuration utilities with faster file modification methods.

Corrected a frequent console error caused by the Hack Prevention object.

News:

• Many detections & utilities were partly written in this update, including ones from the Ground utilities. Fly check, IrregularMovements check & Speed check. These changes aim to solve instabilities that have been existing for a few updates now for several but not all of you.
• A lag issue was corrected by optimising a method of the Search Engine handler, specifically one responsible for detecting unstable checks & detections. Additional caching has been implemented to help this method now run as fast as possible.
• Since the Search Engine handler’s inception, it’s known that if you disable both File & SQL logs, it will disable, taking down an important analysis part of the anti-cheat. This update changes this by forcing the Search Engine to partly work despite all significant log options being disabled.
• A major bug was discovered in the Configuration system that prevented legacy commands from being executed in many scenarios. This update corrects this issue and any old configurations should once again function per usual.

Logs:

1. Corrected several BoatMove multiple passengers false positives.
2. Corrected several FastBreak breaks-per-second entity block false positives.
3. Corrected dozens of movement false positives caused by elytra gliding not being identified properly.
4. Corrected an issue where players could not be unbanned due to a small bug in the system.
5. Corrected dozens of GhostHand interact false positives caused by a small method bug in the Block utilities.
6. Potentially corrected several IrregularMovements step jumping motion false positives.
7. The Speed check will now account averages in its calculations for a more stable experience.
8. Corrected some description inconsistencies in the Spartan & Player Info inventory menus.
9. Corrected dozens of Fly stable jump motion false positives by improving specific calculations.
10. Rewrote part of the IrregularMovements jump detection to be more stable & accurate.
11. Slightly improved the Search Engine handler & AutoSync compatibility with more universal methods.
12. Corrected a lag issue in the Search Engine handler caused by an unstable checks method.
13. Corrected a log caching in the Search Engine handler persisting in non-Syn members.
14. Noticeably optimised the Search Engine handler with issue/bug corrections & better memory usage.
15. Noticeably optimised the Ground utilities with less method calls & faster methods.
16. Noticeably improved the Ground utilities with 2-3x time increased accuracy.
17. Noticeably improved the Spartan Player object with more calculations being cached.
18. Corrected a no-such-method console error caused by the Invisible Block handler.
19. Slightly improved the General Gameplay handler & Timer object with more capabilities.
20. Slightly improved the Speed check with more detailed verbose information.
21. Greatly improved the Low Violation handler by taking advantage of player analysis methods.
22. Slightly improved the Check object with additional caching.
23. Greatly optimised the Cancel Violation handler, Violations feature & Hack Prevention object with faster methods.
24. Corrected a small bug in the False Positive Detection feature to help better moderate hackers.
25. Slightly optimised the Cloud feature with faster methods.
26. Corrected a spectate command argument bug in the Command Execution handler.
27. The Search Engine will now partly work despite all log options being disabled.
28. Corrected a major bug in the Configuration system that prevented legacy commands from being executed.

Corrected a major issue with elytra gliding not being correctly identified, resulting in several false positives.

Logs:

1. Slightly improved the Player Info inventory menu with better item descriptions.
2. Noticeably optimised the SQL Logs feature with significantly less memory usage.
3. Potentially corrected a bypass issue in the FastClicks check caused by the Block utilities.
4. Greatly improved the Block utilities with more accurate directional blocks methods.
5. More detections will now automatically disable when being found overly problematic.
6. Slightly optimised the InventoryClicks check with less memory usage.
7. Noticeably optimised the Configuration system with a faster punishment algorithm.
8. The FastBreak delay detection will no longer check for vine blocks due to their fast breaking speed.
9. Corrected a few BoatMove ice bouncing-block false positives by correcting a bug in the Bouncing Blocks identifier.
10. The Lag Leniencies protection will no longer require ProtocolLib to enable the ping/latency calculations.
11. Configuration Syntax coordinates will now be rounded to prevent chat spam.
12. Implemented a new checks.yml configuration option. (GhostHand.enable_only_on_minigame_servers)
13. The Test Server handler will now protect against changing specific options.
14. Removed the Client Sided Block managing compatibility to save performance since it wasn’t used.
15. Deprecated all Client Sided Block developer API methods.
16. Improved the handling of elytras for many checks.