Hey, as my laptop is currently in the repair shop being fixed, updates will be delayed for a week or two. Sorry for the inconvenience!

After putting quite some thought into it, I've decided to make XProtect an open source project and let anyone contribute to it. Everyone is encouraged to help in the development process!

While it'll be open source on Github, it will remain with a price here for those who want to support the project or use a precompiled version.

Having it open-source does NOT mean you can recompile it and sell it/redestrubute it on other sources.

Enjoy!

Hey! This update includes some internal minor improvements that cleanup the code and slightly improve performance.

Just small internal improvements:

• Removed unecesssary code.
• Impoved the Actionbar performance.

Just a notice that updates will be delayed until September due to summer vacations

Hey all this is more of an internal update that will increase the development speed a lot though,

• Converted project to Gradle for dependency support, and also switched to Intellij.
  
• Minor improvements & optimizations in the code.

Enjoy!

Hey all, here's a pretty cool bugfix

• The Map & Picture captcha are now displayed properly for 1.17 and 1.18 making them usable once again!

Hey all! Hope you're doing great!

• Fixed a bug where /p list would not display the correct messages of the enabled/disabled captchas.

Hi there,

• Fixed an issue with 1.8-1.10 versions when showing titles.

Enjoy!

• Fixed a bug where the players would not get verified/blacklisted correctly when doing the captcha or through the "/xprotect add" command.

Enjoy!

Hi there, I just wanted to give everyone a small update about what's going on with this and the rest of my plugins as for the past few months I have been pretty inactive on spigot. Well, this year I am doing an exchange year abroad and things have been busier than usual, there are a lot of things I need to adapt to, and my free time is now limited. I will try to have some updates here and there, but nothing is certain for at least 5 months.

I hope I'll be able to update it some times though.

A new website has been made. Since the old one was terrible, a new, modern & minimalistic one has been made. It serves a general-purpose as well as showcasing this plugin. Check it out: https://lagbug.me/

Hey there, here's a small preview of what's coming!

I just want to say a huge thanks for reaching 100 downloads on this plugin. Thank you so much for your support.

• Fixed a bug in 1.13.2 where the map captchas would throw an error.
• The GUI captcha will now not show disks for example which you didn't know which one to click.

Next version will include ProtocolLib support for even better protection!

You will need to reset both your language file and your config

• Added metrics for bungeecord.
• Requested by @Dmnchild you can now setup a message to be sent in the whole server once someone completes the captcha so it's not silent.
• Requested by @marlon233 you can now set more details in the different captcha type in the GUI.

2$ sale is now active make sure to buy the plugin

• The bungeecord support is now way more stable. It will now include anti-bot protection and will generate a custom file with all necessary settings.
• The plugin will now automatically switch to FLAT file support if MySQL has failed, or, if using bungeecord, will disable.
• Overall better code.
• Fixed an issue with the actionbar success message where it'd get a wrong path.

Make sure you get the plugin

1$ SALE is now active! Just for a limited time!

• Fixed a bug thrown by /captcha <player> sometimes and caused by IPQS.
• Renamed some placeholder names in the guis/home.yml file. It's recommended that you reset it.

Version 0.3 is finally out, hopefully, you'll love this one! You'll have to reset your config/language files.

• Added /captcha <player> command basically allowing to do all actions + get player information through a nice GUI that is customizable, like seen here:

( https://i.gyazo.com/e775ea6881988487a6ce3c5b5d31aac2.gif)

• Added antiBadConnection in the antibot section with contents:

• Added the option to use IPQS (IP Quality Score) to block bad IPs. You will need to get your own API key through their website.
• Improved the overall codebase and more specifically the file management.
• Fixed a logical error where the players were not kicked if specified so in the actions of anything.

Did you know? Today, we ran a huge OQ Minebot attack on my 1GB test server. Only 2 bots were able to pass through, and they eventually got kicked after 20 seconds for not completing the captcha.

• The plugin can now be ran from a BungeeCord instance as well.
• If ran from BungeeCord:

1. It must use MySQL and not flat file support.
2. There must also be the plugin running on the hub server or the servers you want it to run.
3. BungeeCord commands like /server will be blocked. (They will not if using BungeeCord and have not put the plugin with MySQL on a bungee server as well).

You will need to reset your config file for this update

• Added an option in the config to specify if you want captcha on join. More events will be added in the future, for now:

• Added dependencies section in the config where you can configure some settings about the dependencies Captcha uses. The forceDisable can fix errors caused if AuthMe login is disabled.

• Added zh_TW language file.
• Fixed a bug where in 1.14 an error would be thrown with the map captchas.
• Fixed some spelling and coloring mistakes in the language files.

Note: You will need to reset both your config file and your language folder.

• Massive improvements in the code. Config/Message values are now fetched differently and more efficiently/fast.
• Improved maps performance by using my MapBuilder utility class.
• Added MySQL support which you can find in the config file under the storage section.

Code (YAML):

storage : #Information on how user data should be saved
  type : "FLAT" #Available types are [MYSQL, FLAT]. MySQL is recommended.
  mysql:
    host : ""
    database : ""
    username : ""
    password : ""
    port : 3306
    statement : "?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true"
    table : "captchax"

• Revamped the language file and made it more user-friendly.
• Revamped the config file and transferred some values to the language files.
• Players under verification will now be both hidden for others and they won't be able to see others.
• Fixed a bug where some times, in flat file storage users would be corrupted and randomly removed.
  
• Fixed a bug where 1.14 items would be shown on lower versions.

I'll be on vacation so updates will be delayed.

You will need to regenerate your config for this update. This is the last time this happens.

• Added an option to the config to set which slot you want the captcha item to be given (only in the captchas that require an item)
• Added an option where the last item the player had will be saved and will be returned once he completes the captcha to prevent item loss.
• Fixed an error in the color captcha where it would not work properly and it would send colors like magic or strikethrough. Also limited the colors and their names to make this simple.

You will need to regenerate your config file for this update

• Added anti-bot attack protection. This includes but is not limited to 3 core features.

1. Join limiter. You're now able to set how many connections you want in your server every X amount of seconds.
2. IP limiter. You can now limit how many players can join from the same IP at a current time.
3. VPN & proxy blocker. If enabled, players who are using these will be prohibited from joining the server.

• Improved the code.
• Improved and revamped some parts of the config, this is why it must be regenerated. Many parts have been removed/changed so simply regenerate it.
• Fixed a bug where players were able to throw their items down while on captcha verification.
  
• Fixed map captcha type not working in 1.13 and above.
• Fixed other small issues.

Anti-bot attack support is on its way! Stay tuned for an update

You will need to regenerate your language files for this update.

• Improved the code a lot.
• Improved the order and gui captcha type.
  
• Added a new feature where commands can now be run from the console too.
• Added a new feature where the update checker will now also notify all online players with permission captcha.update.
  
• Added new command /captcha list which will show all the captcha types.
• Added a new optional argument to /captcha test <player> [type] which specifies the captcha type wanted to send.
• Added /captcha rl alias for the reload command.
• Fixed a bug where if a player left and had a map captcha, it would not get removed.
• Fixed a bug where the equation difficulty would not work.

Hey there, thanks for staying tuned, here's this updates changelog:

• Made the all the gui types inventories unclosable.
• Improved code quality and removed unnecessary stuff.
• Fixed a bug where if someone failed a gui captcha, the item he clicked on would be thrown down.
• Fixed a bug where in rare cases on the gui captcha the item asked to click would not be shown in the actual gui.

Hope you all enjoy!

Hey there, welcome to another cool update! In this update:

• A new captcha type named different has been added. You basically have to click the different item on a gui.
• An error thrown by the gui captcha has been fixed.
• The gui has been improved to better support the newest Minecraft versions.

Hey there, I just changed the thread design and it looks dope I think. What's your opinion?

Here are some damn cool and good changes:

• Added a notify feature where players with the permission captcha.notify will get a message on player fail/complete a captcha.
• Added delay option in the config to ask the captcha after x seconds after join.
  
• Added /captcha test <player> command which sends a captcha to a player. The permission is captcha.test.
  
• Added a feature where if the color for the map captcha is wrong in the config, it will be black and no error will be given.
• Added a feature where if all captchas are disabled no error will be given and a debug message will be sent.
• Improved code quality in many parts. (More coding improvements to come)
  
• Fixed a really important bug where captcha disable feature would not work.
• Fixed /captcha remove command which would not work properly.
• Fixed a bug by /captcha reload which would add all player again and again in the config.
• Fixed a bug that should be fixed before. Player inventories are now not cleared.

Added API methods [getAvailableCaptcha, getToVerify, getVerified] and events [PlayerCompleteCaptchaEvent, PlayerFailCaptchaEvent].

Hey there, in this update, a bypass permission ( captcha.bypass) has been added.

Hello, in this update:

• I've fixed an error given by the captcha gui if the title of the gui was over 32 characters.

Hello, this is a quite nice update:

• Added onCaptchaInactivity section in the config which defines what actions will be taken if the captcha is not completed within the specified amount of time. (You will need to either remove your config file or add this section yourself)
  
• Requested by @LukeMango, once a player has completed a map captcha, his inventory won't be cleared. Only the map.

Enjoy!

Hello, this update makes it possible to customize the kick message when the server reloads and the player is in the verification process.

Hey there:

• Fixed the update checker to work.
• Add an option to disable the update checker from the config.