Sonar supports mods, however, some specific mods break networking & game logic to an extent where we can no longer differentiate between a connection made from a bot and a legitimate player. This is not Sonar's fault.

These issues never really occur on vanilla clients. We aren't banning anyone from using mods but instead recommending they try a vanilla client to see if the issue is resolved.

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Thanks for your review. Appreciate it.

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I'm fairly certain this review is made by the same person, which is why I'd like to refer to my response to the review below this one.

I do have automodding on my Discord and I do delete messages and timeout the member if they're toxic. You, actually, were the toxic person in my Discord and were timed out for a day for this:
https://ibb.co/HP7Qnvj

This "6GB log" you reported had nothing to do with Sonar. If you wanted me to look into the problem—if you wanted me to help you, provide information. I cannot do much just based on a completely random exception in console, especially when my plugin has nothing to do with it (Sonar uses its own login packets and the error was caused by Minecraft's 1.12.2 login packet which is not used by Sonar).

If you're using UltimateAntiBot, why review Sonar now? Why bomb this review section with something I either know of already or isn't an issue in the first place?

This review is extremely unfair and unjustified, in my opinion. If you want to criticize something, please use appropriate language and be respectful. This concept doesn't only apply here but on all plugin pages.

This is really unnecessary. I'm doing this all for free, making pretty much nothing, and, yeah, sure, some bots can bypass it, so what? Just don't use it if you don't like it or if it doesn't fit your use case.

If you want to talk about this, hit me up.

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Hello. Thanks for your review.

I'm currently developing a new injection method that should address the spam-botting issue. Even today, Sonar performs effectively against spam attacks; nonetheless, it falls short of other anti-bot plugins with more powerful injection methods (for example, nAntiBot). The problem is not with Sonar's verification system, but with how I handle connections.

I disagree with the "easy to bypass part." If I recall correctly, the only bot that currently bypasses Sonar is ttProxy—that's it. I could fix their bypass, sure, but they're just going to take a look at Sonar's code on GitHub and patch it in their bot, so I don't want to give them free fixes for their bots until Sonar Premium is released, which will include a more advanced way of verifying players based on outgame verification methods (e.g., a web captcha and cloud-based heuristic approaches).

The verification server doesn't consume a lot of resources, and Sonar does feature bad packet dropping (when the decoder is eventually replaced — blame it on the current injection method :D), spam reconnect filtering (rate-limiting), invalid username blocking, and more.
Another thing that is important to say that this "verification server" isn't a server in any way. It's purely an illusion of a server to trick the client into thinking that they joined the server. Sonar additionally only verifies genuine connections to prevent socket spamming (a botting technique in which the bot connects and immediately disconnects after sending the handshake and login packets).

Sonar is primarily intended to be an anti-bot, not an anti-ddos or anti-flood, as spam connections cannot be prevented with a Minecraft plugin. I've always recommended using TCPShield or NeoProtect in front of your server to prevent these high-connection-rate attacks.

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An authentication plugin is not planned. However, authentication plugins that use virtual servers, such as LimboAuth, are already compatible with Sonar.

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If you have any further suggestions or want to report a bug, make sure to join the Discord server or open a GitHub issue.

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If you have any further suggestions or want to report a bug, make sure to join the Discord server or open a GitHub issue.

Hello! Thank you for your review.

Support for H2 will be implemented in the next update.
https://github.com/jonesdevelopment/sonar/issues/341

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Hello! Thank you for your review.

Sonar uses MiniMessage formatting because it allows you to completely customize all messages. You can use custom (hex) colors, click events, hover events, and more.

More information on using MiniMessage may be found in the Sonar documentation at https://docs.jonesdev.xyz/administration/usage-of-minimessage.

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Sadly, Bukkit support is really hard to implement, especially because I don't have much time at the moment, but I'm trying my best, and I'm glad that you like Sonar.

Update: Sonar 2.1.0 now features support for Spigot, Paper, and more.

Hahahaha - nice, thank you so much!

I love you, man! <3 Thanks a lot!