What is Hawk Anticheat?

Hawk is a general purpose, simple anticheating plugin for Spigot servers. It attempts to help moderate players' interactions on a server. More specifically, interactions caused by exploits in the Minecraft protocol that create unfair advantages for a player. Such exploits can be achieved by modifying the client and many of these modifications are designed to bypass common anticheating solutions. Hawk is aimed to be a simple, yet thorough solution to prevent cheating in Minecraft.

Why choose Hawk Anticheat?

Many other anticheat systems struggle to keep up with the latest hacks by adding small patches after each update. Eventually, these systems become too complex to repair known bypasses in time. There are also not many anticheat systems supporting older, yet still popular Minecraft versions (i.e. little support for MC 1.7.10). Hawk is made to be a simple, yet straightforward anticheat system to prevent bypasses. If a bypass is found, it will become the highest priority to solve for the development of Hawk. Hawk currently contains 21 checks which analyze players for suspicious combat, interaction, movement, and malicious exploitation within the protocol. Hawk's checks will only observe the players' actions and collect statistics based on the observations. No checks test for cheats by interrupting the game experience, such as spawning NPCs or applying knock-back.