Java Bedrock Improvements to Sentinel punishments (2026-2027)

[One.]

We’re making some changes to Sentinel punishments in the future. I watched some videos of CubeCraft false bans. The first ban was 7 days. The second ban I believe it was 30 days. Third ban was I don’t remember how long the ban can last for. I am not sure how long is the third punishment. Maybe 60 or 90 days? Unfortunately, Sentinel cannot ban players permanently. Only by staff if they got banned by Sentinel several times.

I got something to tell you. Sentinel will place longer bans if you don’t appeal after the expiry or if your appeal is denied. Always appeal your punishment before the ban expires or otherwise it’ll place longer bans. You don’t want to do that as it can make things worse. To get a high chance of a successful appeal, make proper appeals. There’s no need to have an evidence of you getting false banned.

Current Punishment Track: 7 days -> 30 days -> 60 days -> 90 days -> permanent
New Punishment Track: 14 days -> 60 days -> 180 days -> permanent

Permanent ban is only issued by staff. Please note that if you’re on the second punishment track of the ban, you will be unable to reverse your punishment track. It’ll leave the punishment track the way it was intended, even if your appeal has been approved.

Violating the rules on an appeal can lead to extreme penalties. Can make things significantly worse. Your ban will be extended if more violations occur. This includes profanity, slurs, death threats, suicide encouragement, spamming, and underage I believe.

What is underage in CubeCraft? Underage means that you aren’t eligible for CubeCraft. Even if you are over 13 years old, and you’re admitting to be underage, it’s a violation of Terms of Service. You can either get your account suspended or terminated. It can be temporary until age 13 or permanent for termination.

 

[yurisatori0312]

We’re making some changes to Sentinel punishments in the future. I watched some videos of CubeCraft false bans. The first ban was 7 days. The second ban I believe it was 30 days. Third ban was I don’t remember how long the ban can last for. I am not sure how long is the third punishment. Maybe 60 or 90 days? Unfortunately, Sentinel cannot ban players permanently. Only by staff if they got banned by Sentinel several times.

I got something to tell you. Sentinel will place longer bans if you don’t appeal after the expiry or if your appeal is denied. Always appeal your punishment before the ban expires or otherwise it’ll place longer bans. You don’t want to do that as it can make things worse. To get a high chance of a successful appeal, make proper appeals. There’s no need to have an evidence of you getting false banned.

Current Punishment Track: 7 days -> 30 days -> 60 days -> 90 days -> permanent
New Punishment Track: 14 days -> 30 days -> 90 days -> 180 days -> permanent

Permanent ban is only issued by staff. Please note that if you’re on the second punishment track of the ban, you will be unable to reverse your punishment track. It’ll leave the punishment track the way it was intended, even if your appeal has been approved.

Violating the rules on an appeal can lead to extreme penalties. Can make things significantly worse. Your ban will be extended if more violations occur. This includes profanity, slurs, death threats, suicide encouragement, spamming, and underage I believe.

What is underage in CubeCraft? Underage means that you aren’t eligible for CubeCraft. Even if you are over 13 years old, and you’re admitting to be underage, it’s a violation of Terms of Service. You can either get your account suspended or terminated. It can be temporary until age 13 or permanent for termination.

Banning players for being under 13 would instantly destroy most of the player base on Bedrock.

 

[JSCLEVR]

We’re making some changes to Sentinel punishments in the future. I watched some videos of CubeCraft false bans. The first ban was 7 days. The second ban I believe it was 30 days. Third ban was I don’t remember how long the ban can last for. I am not sure how long is the third punishment. Maybe 60 or 90 days? Unfortunately, Sentinel cannot ban players permanently. Only by staff if they got banned by Sentinel several times.

I got something to tell you. Sentinel will place longer bans if you don’t appeal after the expiry or if your appeal is denied. Always appeal your punishment before the ban expires or otherwise it’ll place longer bans. You don’t want to do that as it can make things worse. To get a high chance of a successful appeal, make proper appeals. There’s no need to have an evidence of you getting false banned.

Current Punishment Track: 7 days -> 30 days -> 60 days -> 90 days -> permanent
New Punishment Track: 14 days -> 30 days -> 90 days -> 180 days -> permanent

Permanent ban is only issued by staff. Please note that if you’re on the second punishment track of the ban, you will be unable to reverse your punishment track. It’ll leave the punishment track the way it was intended, even if your appeal has been approved.

Violating the rules on an appeal can lead to extreme penalties. Can make things significantly worse. Your ban will be extended if more violations occur. This includes profanity, slurs, death threats, suicide encouragement, spamming, and underage I believe.

What is underage in CubeCraft? Underage means that you aren’t eligible for CubeCraft. Even if you are over 13 years old, and you’re admitting to be underage, it’s a violation of Terms of Service. You can either get your account suspended or terminated. It can be temporary until age 13 or permanent for termination.

makes sense as to what you are saying, however i think the punishment system is good the way it is, Lets take this for example... a player gets punished by a false positive, for example chunk bug triggered sentinel and banned the player for 7 days, most players just wait their punishment as most players dont know how to appeal, or they have no way to appeal, It would not be fair for that player who is waiting 7 days for their punishement to be expired, for it to then be moved to 30 days before the punishement ended. It would be both bad for the player and server and would have no benifit on stopping real cheaters. Why i say this is because that player might then never play cubecraft again - this would result in massive player count drops. Then the cheater situation - most cheaters create a new account and delete that account anyways as its much easier and faster, there would be no benifit for cubecraft to make this. :-)

 

[One.]

makes sense as to what you are saying, however i think the punishment system is good the way it is, Lets take this for example... a player gets punished by a false positive, for example chunk bug triggered sentinel and banned the player for 7 days, most players just wait their punishment as most players dont know how to appeal, or they have no way to appeal, It would not be fair for that player who is waiting 7 days for their punishement to be expired, for it to then be moved to 30 days before the punishement ended. It would be both bad for the player and server and would have no benifit on stopping real cheaters. Why i say this is because that player might then never play cubecraft again - this would result in massive player count drops. Then the cheater situation - most cheaters create a new account and delete that account anyways as its much easier and faster, there would be no benifit for cubecraft to make this. :-)

I also forgot the blatant cheating ban issued by a staff member. The reason is staff witnessed use of prohibited modifications. What this means is that you were cheating with illegal modules on a cheat client such as flight and aura. Your appeal will most likely to be denied. This could potentially occur to blatant cheaters with Sentinel ping disablers.

Current Punishment Track: 30 days -> 60 days -> 90 days -> permanent
New Punishment Track: 60 days -> 180 days -> permanent

The new punishment track should be changed as well. Please note that we’re keeping the bans, we’re not resetting them. Should we reset the punishment track and keep bans issued by staff? Maybe or maybe not?

But still, CubeCraft must be at least 13 years old or you will be punished for violating Terms of Service. Not just the Discord and the Forums. This can happen everywhere.

The sole purpose of trolling can result in a severe penalty. What is trolling? Trolling means that you purposely violate the rules too quickly. Please slow down or otherwise you will troll. This can result in a significant punishment extension from temporary to permanent.

 

[imnerdhehe]

It wont do anything until it get better in detecting hackers.

 

[One.]

It wont do anything until it get better in detecting hackers.

That sounds true. Sentinel isn’t doing really good at detecting blatant cheaters. Although /report was too weak against staff at night. We all know that every staff member is offline at night. It only works during the day. Most staff are in a day shift meaning that their location is somewhere in Europe, making /report a bit useful. Reporting players with the /report command is useless if staff are at night in Europe. Helpers and VIP Level 30 members don’t have the permission to ban rule breakers. Only moderators and administrators can ban rule breakers.

Some CubeCraft players love playing this under 13 years old. The kids don’t mind if they’re at least 13 years old. They must adhere to these rules by Ziax or they will be punished.

This time, we’re going to be implementing an age verification before playing CubeCraft. Commands cannot be executed unless you verify your real age, not fake. That should help restrict underage players. Players in Bedrock Edition under the age of 13 have a total player base of around 10,000 to 20,000 without going to school or sleeping.

What happens if we restrict underaged players?
yurisatori0312 said that banning players for being under 13 would instantly destroy most of the player base on Bedrock. This can drop down the player base of around 2,000 to 4,000 with no school or sleep. People don’t go to school on the weekends. Will the server be unplayable if we restrict players?

The new Sentinel punishment track system is going to be 14 days for the first time, 60 days for the second time, 180 days for the third time, and permanent for the fourth time by staff if you got Sentinel banned 4 times with denied appeals or not submitting appeals. I made a mistake so I edited it to fix mistakes. The current punishment track system for Sentinel is 7 days for the first time. This time we raised it to 14 days for weakness reduction.

Swearing and spamming in an appeal can result in a warning for mute punishment, not the ban. Appealing is considered using the chat. Threats and slurs in an appeal can result in a mute for right now. Why they’re muting players from chat for swearing, threatening, hate speech, and spamming in appeals? We should extend bans for this, not mutes.