Minecraft plugin Orebfuscator

🔌 About Orebfuscator

Orebfuscator is a Minecraft plugin for Spigot/CraftBukkit servers that prevents X‑ray clients, texture packs, and chest‑radar tools from revealing ores and other sensitive blocks. It works by modifying the block data sent to clients (packet‑level obfuscation) rather than changing the stored world, so the on‑disk world files remain untouched.

🎯 Purpose

The plugin's core purpose is anti‑cheat: to hide configured blocks (ores, chests, furnaces, dungeons in darkness, etc.) from clients that attempt to detect them using modified clients or resource packs. This reduces unfair resource gathering and server griefing caused by X‑ray tools. ()

⚙️ Features

• Packet‑level obfuscation of blocks to hide ores and other configured block types. ()
• Configurable block lists and hiding modes (including scrambling and proximity/gaze based hiding for chests and tile entities). ()
• Does not modify world files on disk (safe to enable without world edits). ()
• Optional integration points and example configuration resources provided in the project repository. ()

🧩 Who It Is For

Server owners and admins who run Spigot/Paper/Bukkit‑based survival or SMP servers and want to reduce cheating from client‑side X‑ray tools, or who want to hide chests and other sensitive blocks from remote discovery. ()

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Prevent players using X‑ray mods from quickly locating ore veins on a public survival server.
• Hide distant chests or furnaces until players approach them or have line‑of‑sight.
• Use different obfuscation configurations per world to tune performance and behavior.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official plugin JAR (releases are published by the project).
• Place the JAR into your server's plugins/ directory.
• Ensure the required dependency ProtocolLib is installed (Orebfuscator requires ProtocolLib 4.0+ for supported builds).
• Restart the server and consult console logs to confirm the plugin loaded correctly. ()

📦 Dependencies

• ProtocolLib (required). ()

🧠 Technical Notes

• Official releases and the project source are hosted on GitHub; the repository includes a wiki with configuration guidance and an issues tracker for bug reports. ()
• Historically the project provides releases targeting Minecraft 1.9 through 1.13 (including specific support notes for 1.13.2 in official releases). Administrators should check the repository/releases for the exact builds compatible with their server version. ()
• Licensed under GPL‑3.0 as stated in the project repository. ()

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you run a Spigot/Paper/Bukkit survival server and need a packet‑level anti‑Xray solution that hides ores and chests without altering the world data, Orebfuscator provides configurable obfuscation and per‑world options backed by a public repository and release history. ()