# Welcome

Cardinal Anticheat is a Minecraft anticheat that uses several novel approches to make players have a hard time hacking on your server. Each check is unique and designed specifically for Cardinal Anticheat always trying to find methods and ways that haven't been tested before. This offers a great advantage in keeping your server safe from hackers while known anti-cheats can't do the job.

# Testserver

If you are interested, you are welcome to join the official public testserver and try it yourself!

cardinal.micartey.dev

In case the server is offline, please join the official discord server and give me a notice that you want to test the anticheat on the testserver.

# Features

Apart from detecting cheaters, Cardinal Anticheat also offers a lot of other features that may be useful for you as a server owner.

Feature	Description
Bedrock Support	As one of few, Cardinal supports Bedrock. This includes detecting cheats while other anticheats only exempt/whitelist bedrock players (Experimental)
Addons	Cardinal also allows loading, developing and sharing addons. There are already some addons on my discord server. Furthermore, there is a rather good documentation for developers on how to write your own addons here
Reports	Each flag will be stored as a so called "report". Players with a lot of reports are very probably cheating. Moderators can vew a sorted list of the players with the most reports and decide to ban those with an unusual high amount of reports
Dialects	As closed source projects have legitimate doubts about security and privacy, Cardinal doesn't handle any database connections. Reading and writing is only possible through dialects which are a form of addons and provide a high level of security
Always-up to date	Cardinal uses a dynamic loading strategy that provides better support for versioning than other plugins, which also includes the loading of the newest release on startup. This provides better and easier hotfixes to everyone