ExploitShield vs FoxAddition Anti-Cheat
ExploitShield
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| Figure | ExploitShield | FoxAddition Anti-Cheat |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Anti-Cheat Plugins | 7.6 (#13) | 7.7 (#10) |
| Spec score · Minecraft anti-cheat plugins | 7.7 (#13) | 7.8 (#11) |
| License | ExploitShield is licensed under GPL-3.0; the README says distributed modified versions or projects incorporating its source must also use GPL-3.0 and make their complete source code public. | The Modrinth listing identifies the project license as ARR. |
| Purpose | ExploitShield is an open-source Minecraft server plugin for protection against packet exploits, crash attempts, invalid NBT data, malicious payloads, and duplication methods. | FoxAddition is an additional Minecraft server anti-cheat plugin designed to prevent specific types of hacks and add checks alongside another anti-cheat. |
| Support | The project directs users to its Discord community for help, bug reports, and feature suggestions, and welcomes GitHub issues and contributions. | The project directs users to its international Discord server to report problems, bugs, or errors. |
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In their own words
ExploitShield
ExploitShield is a free, open-source Minecraft server plugin that guards against packet exploits, crash attempts, invalid NBT data, malicious payloads, and duplication methods. It filters and validates packets, limits their rate, detects malformed traffic, and checks payloads and plugin messages. NBT checks cover oversized content, invalid UTF-8, illegal characters, and invalid stack sizes. Listed crash protections address books, signs, payloads, chat overflow, TabComplete, and invalid packet cancellation. Duplication defenses cover inventory, creative, hoppers, containers, pistons, minecarts, boats, and vehicles, alongside chunk detection and item signature tracking. Administrators can configure protection modules, thresholds, packet and rate limits, alert messages, and punishments. Responses include alerts, cancellations, kicks, bans, IP bans, and custom commands. It supports Minecraft 1.17.x–1.21.x on Paper, Spigot, and Folia, and requires Java 17+, PacketEvents 2.13.0+, and ProtocolLib 5.4.0+. The license is GPL-3.0; modified distributions or projects incorporating its source must use that license and publish their complete source code.
FoxAddition Anti-Cheat
FoxAddition Anti-Cheat is a free, self-hosted Minecraft server plugin that adds checks alongside another anti-cheat. It supports Spigot, Paper, and Folia, with automatic detection for Folia and traditional Paper or Spigot servers. The Modrinth listing covers Java Edition versions from 1.7.x through 1.21.x and 26.1.x. Listed detections include irregular packets, break aura, bed aura, chest aura, nuker, and invalid movement. Administrators can edit configuration values and disable checks in selected worlds. Available responses include cancelling packets or actions, notifying, kicking, ejecting, and applying a setback or pullback. With GeyserMC it can detect Bedrock players, while Floodgate can control checks by edition. DiscordSRV can send configurable alerts to a chosen channel; optional logs record violations in dated text files. Installation requires placing FoxAddition.jar in the plugins folder and PacketEvents 2.11.0 or newer. The latest listed release is 1.2.3 Beta 2, under an ARR license.