Kara: I will try. I think I had a problem last time I tried, but I'll look at it again. 
Thorin: I was too busy at the time, but I am currently building a priority list for my mods. Atorium looks like they have a similar mod, so I hope I can coordinate with them.
codeAtorium: Thanks for the insight! I tried to add you on discord. Hope we can possibly collaborate.

codeAtorium
Thorin48
Kara

Hi Bunny.  I was working on a mod that's pretty similar to yours before someone pointed yours out.  It's here: https://mods.vintagestory.at/grieflogger

Thank you for including the source.  I am as well.  We took a very similar approach, overwriting the same methods and using the savegame file.

I've just started with C# so your code is much better than mine.  But mine does something a little different. When a user first places a block in a chunk, it marks the chunk with a unique id, and uses that id to key the placed block information in the file using separate datastores for each chunk. Then, when a user breaks a block, it checks for the presence of that id, and if it finds it, compares the block being broken to the blocks in that chunk's placed block information.  That way, we can query a much smaller table for the matching block when breaking. 

I think this will reduce the amount of lag as the server grows.  I wanted to see if you have any thoughts on this, and if you might want to implement the approach in your own mod, since the overall code looks superior to mine.  I'm on the VS discord under improperCase or just comment on my mod.

FunnyBunnyofDOOM are you updating for 1.19

if you ever update this, would you be able to make it read off irl time/date rather then in-game time/date? 

RogueRaiden The key phrase there is "does not have to be" I once lived in a beach town, there was a problem with people coming off the beach and vandalizing. Cops could have policed the beach, but they managed to get permission to put up lights. Next thing anyone knew there were so many lights on the beach it was like an airplane runway and no one could enjoy the beach at night anymore, even the people that owned homes went from a view of the ocean too bright lights in their back windows. It made the cop's job real easy but at the hole communities expense. The very existence of a tool like this means some admins will just ban anything they think might one day somehow possibly be a problem. But if it does not exist, they have to learn to police. I will always disagree that FairPlayGuardian is a BAD tool. With bad implications.

In the end the problem is not what is controlled but who. Control the bad actors, not the community.

Mendall

FairPlayGuardian is a fantastic tool, and it does not have to be set to block all client mods. You can use it exactly in the manner that follows your ideas, where it only logs players client mods and shows if they are running one that is flagged as blocked without kicking. Both of these tools used together is highly recommend however you want to configure them.

THIS is a great tool. And more important, it is an example of the RIGHT way to control a server. By giving the admins tools like this, invisibility, role backs, teleports to players.etc. that allow them to police their server actively. It is far better than a mod like FairPlayGuardian that is a perfect example of the wrong way to control a server. Where you just blindly and passively limit your hole player base, not just the bad actors. I was an admin on a server for 4 years, and it can be a lot of fun if you go in remembering it is a game, so don't be a dick. So take the time to police the bad actors instead of scorched earth control of everyone. Thank you bunny for a good admin tool.

Released a 1.0.0-dev.1 version with a few tweaks (incomplete 1.0.1 release) but more importantly this should work on the .NET7 version. Please let me know if you have any issues running this on a .NET7 build. 

Rythian
Thank you so much Rythian! This is #2 on my priority list. as soon as my server utility mod is updated I'll start work on this. I am hoping to have it updated by mid to late june. 

This seems like a must have for servers, very similar to core protect (though obv core protect has more features being a super old plugin for mc). Very interested to see this continue devloping! 

oh yes, performance is top priority. just thinking about readability and ease in finding a culprit. since animal corpses can eventually disappear. perhaps save the animal deaths with the chunk it was in? then the command to print and/or export the animals killed in the current chunk

RogueRaiden
BoolyStudy

Absolutely possible. I'll put it on my to do list. The blocklog is saved in binary, so it's not very impactful on the system. If I make these values saved in a visible log file I have concerns about performance impacts. I'll do some tests and see what I can find out. If it's too impactful on the servery maybe a command to export a players kill-list into a readable log might work. 

Thanks for the suggestion!

I came here to also suggest somehow logging animal deaths lmao perhaps into a seperate, dedicated log file with timestamps, coords, animal type and player name

Can we verify who killed another person's animals? I use your model on my Latino server with 50 simultaneous players, but they are killing animals in our regions, we use /land