Well, I run a couple servers that are open to all, so I occasionally run into griefing... My solution is to simply save fairly often, and if I'm in the middle of building something and some unknown shows up, I save before they can do anything. So when someone does grief, I just shake my head disapprovingly, submit a negative player review to their account and reload my save. If the griefer is a friend of a friend, I'll let the mutual friend know that the other person is a griefer, and they usually delete them.
The best way to handle griefers and trolls is to not freak out or get upset by their actions, because that's what they're looking for. Instead, just repair the damage and ignore them, as you did. I also like to imagine that behind the GT of every griefer is some unloved, socially inept failure who's decided that getting people angry is the only distraction strong enough to make them forget their horribly dissatisfying life.
This way, I always smile when I get griefed, because 1) it's ineffective and 2) another person has admitted that they're jealous of my world.
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I made a semi-hidden chest specifically designed to be found and looted, in which I put a handful of diamonds and a bit of iron and gold. The mentality was that people would find that chest, loot the valuables and be content that they stole my valuables, and thus they would never find the ACTUAL storage room my friends and I had set up, containing our stacks of hard-mined valuable ores and gems.
I got to see this system work on day when a kid came on my game. He was exploring the central stronghold in the village and ended up finding the chest, and sure enough, he gutted it. I could hear him snickering over his mic, and once I set him loose, I checked the chest, and sure enough it was empty.
He never got anywhere close to the storage cave.
Well, I run a couple servers that are open to all, so I occasionally run into griefing... My solution is to simply save fairly often, and if I'm in the middle of building something and some unknown shows up, I save before they can do anything. So when someone does grief, I just shake my head disapprovingly, submit a negative player review to their account and reload my save. If the griefer is a friend of a friend, I'll let the mutual friend know that the other person is a griefer, and they usually delete them.
The best way to handle griefers and trolls is to not freak out or get upset by their actions, because that's what they're looking for. Instead, just repair the damage and ignore them, as you did. I also like to imagine that behind the GT of every griefer is some unloved, socially inept failure who's decided that getting people angry is the only distraction strong enough to make them forget their horribly dissatisfying life.
This way, I always smile when I get griefed, because 1) it's ineffective and 2) another person has admitted that they're jealous of my world.
nothing annoys griefers more than when they fail and you laugh at their pitiful attempt
All the time. When I play, I'm usually playing with my friend's young children in splitscreen mode where I can watch whats going on on the different screens. If they start griefing each other, the Xbox gets turned off and the instigator gets sent to their room for a timeout. When play is allowed to resume, we restart in a world owned by the child who previously instigated the griefing. If they are still in a childish mood, they wind up griefing their own world (which has happened once or twice).
Recognizing that griefing can also be fun... we also occasionally make worlds with the express purpose of griefing them together later whenever we need a break from building. After griefing them, we often exit them without saving, so that we can grief them again another day whenever the notion hits us.
once i built a piston elevator and my 'friend' poured lava onto it and i said lets see, less than five peices of redstone destroyed, CHECK. Greifer failed, DOUBLE CHECK.
once i built a piston elevator and my 'friend' poured lava onto it and i said lets see, less than five peices of redstone destroyed, CHECK. Greifer failed, DOUBLE CHECK.
I set a large chest FULL of diamonds(spawned them on creative mode) then i put it on survival and let people join. I places a pressure plate on top of tnt and i made sure that it was on top of stone so the plate would blend. Then some one opened it while standing on the pressure plate ,and tried to steal everything, and i watched the as the dude and the chest went up in smoke. I then kicked for stealing and not noticing the pressure plate because he should have heard the click it makes when stepped on. (duh!)
When I was on a PVP-allowed server, the enemy team came to our base and started destroying it. Little did they know that my friend who was a "spy" for the other team let me go over to their base, save, and exit earlier. I came back and I came back to their base and while my friend was pretending to run away I went and stole most of their important stuff, until they realized I was gone and not around my base.
and he poured lava down my entire boat laughing, and then i calmly put out out lava and said, that
would have worked if you were smart enough to check if fires actualy spread, then i kicked him and
told him, i always have tnt so jokes on you kid, worst griefer ever,
The best way to handle griefers and trolls is to not freak out or get upset by their actions, because that's what they're looking for. Instead, just repair the damage and ignore them, as you did. I also like to imagine that behind the GT of every griefer is some unloved, socially inept failure who's decided that getting people angry is the only distraction strong enough to make them forget their horribly dissatisfying life.
This way, I always smile when I get griefed, because 1) it's ineffective and 2) another person has admitted that they're jealous of my world.
I got to see this system work on day when a kid came on my game. He was exploring the central stronghold in the village and ended up finding the chest, and sure enough, he gutted it. I could hear him snickering over his mic, and once I set him loose, I checked the chest, and sure enough it was empty.
He never got anywhere close to the storage cave.
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nothing annoys griefers more than when they fail and you laugh at their pitiful attempt
I then proceded to load the backup copy.
Oh, they were peeved....
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Recognizing that griefing can also be fun... we also occasionally make worlds with the express purpose of griefing them together later whenever we need a break from building. After griefing them, we often exit them without saving, so that we can grief them again another day whenever the notion hits us.
did you still call him a friend anymore?
how do know they are idiots, infact arnt we all idiots and we just ignore it?
I check thier spelling.
i let in others because there's a small, small chance of them helping with my daunting project
correcting their spelling means nothing, everyone can have perfect spelling if they want to, it depends on their mood/how lazy they are