Cardinal-Anticheat ~ 1.8 - 1.20, Bedrock

Introduction • Testserver • Getting started • Troubleshooting

📚 Introduction

Cardinal Anticheat is a minecraft anticheat that a number of different checks to make players have a hard time cheating on your server. Each check is unique and designed specifically for Cardinal Anticheat. Therefore, there are currently no known clients that can easily bypass Cardinal Anticheat. This offers a great advantage in keeping your server safe from hackers while known anticheats can't do the job.

This anticheat is also one of a few that supports Minecraft Bedrock with Geyser (Floodgate) fully - This includes the detection of cheating bedrock players and not whitelisting which is often considered as "support" by other anticheats

Motivation

I started making this 4-5 years ago. Since then the project went through several stages and restructure phases. The time spend is not meant to represent any sort of measurement of how good this anticheat is. Nothing is skidded and all checks have been implemented by my own and following my own concepts. This is a key strength compared to other anticheats in terms of bypasses. The 4.X branch is currently a new concept I am trying to improve, thus a lot of checks have not been implemented so far. This project is a fun project to me and I spend time on it when I want to. It also serves as a playground for new things I learn.

Testserver

Cardinal has a public testserver which is available via the following ip/domain

cardinal.micartey.dev

In case the server is offline, please join the official discord server and give me a notice that you want to test the anticheat on the testserver.

📝 Getting Started

Depending on who you are, you might want to look at different resources:

• Setting up the anticheat: https://cardinalanticheat.github.io/documentation/getting-started/
• Development of Addons: https://cardinalanticheat.github.io/documentation/how-to/addons/

A more indepth guide can be found on the official documentation which should be read in its fullest. Other relevant resources, information and addons can be found at github.com/cardinalanticheat.

Terms of Use

By downloading Cardinal you automatically agree to the following conditions:

• It is prohibited to decompile or modify the plugin in any way
• It is prohibited to claim the plugin as you own
• It is permitted for the plugin to load code dynamically from external servers at startup

🔬 Troubleshooting

This repository serves as an issue tracker. In case you encounter any issues, please create an issue here.