2022-09-28
For several years I’ve occasionally logged onto Shodan and searched for Minecraft servers. I just join, look around, and maybe leave a sign for the server owner. I’d also occasionally heard stories about people making their own Minecraft server scanners.
A while ago, on April 1st 2022, cybersecurity YouTuber LiveOverflow uploaded a video titled “I Spent 100 Days Hacking Minecraft”. Despite being uploaded on April Fools’, the video and series that followed was actually really interesting. Anyways, after a bit I got the idea of searching for “liveoverflow” on Shodan. To my surprise, the server actually showed up and even more surprisingly it wasn’t whitelisted. There were signs at spawn that congratulated you but said “I hope you built a tool yourself”. I had not built a tool myself.
A few weeks later, Minecraft documentary YouTuber TheMisterEpic uploaded a video about “Minecraft’s most dangerous glitch”. Spoiler: The bug in the video is not dangerous. I wanted to let TheMisterEpic know, so I joined his Discord and pinged him in general chat. Some people were disagreeing with me, but a member in the server named Ada came to my defense. We talked a bit and another server member named Gildfesh told me how him and Ada developed Minecraft hacks and had recently released a mod for faking Minecraft chat reports. Later, a member named Shrecknt brought up LiveOverflow’s Minecraft YouTube series. This made me start thinking about it again, so I decided to rejoin the server once again. This time, there was a player online. We talked a bit, and they invited me to a Discord server named “Server Scanning Inc”. Everyone in the server was super cool, and coincidentally Ada and Gildfesh also happened to be members here.
“Minecraft’s most dangerous glitch”
Original screenshot of my base, unfortunately it's too griefed now to take a better screenshot
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