PREREQUISITE CHECKLIST : (answer the following)
- Have you been a regular player on MunchyMC for at least one month?: Yes, I joined MunchyMC on September 7th, 2019. I have been playing for an hour or two daily since I joined.
- Are you able to record and upload good quality videos of hackers?: Yes, I currently use OBS which allows me to record both gameplay, and audio.
- Are you able to download and use TeamSpeak 3?: Yes, I currently have TeamSpeak 3 downloaded and I’m using it fairly often.
ONLY ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IF YOU’VE ANSWERED ‘YES’ TO ALL OF THE ABOVE
IGN: My current in game name is CKRuki. You can see my previous names here
Age: I am currently 16 years old.
Timezone: My timezone is EDT/EST also known as Eastern Daylight Time / Eastern Standard Time (UTC-4 / UTC-5).
Server(s) you would like to moderate: I would like to moderate Prison considering that it is the only game mode I play.
How active can you be per week?
Due to sports, the amount I can be active currently is shorter. I will supply two different schedules correlating with each season.
(During sport seasons: Football / Lacrosse. Times could vary on Friday/Saturday due to games)
Sunday: 12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Monday: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday: 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Friday (Game): None
Friday (No Game): 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Saturday (Game) 10:00 AM - 11 AM
Saturday (No Game): 12:00 PM - 11PM
(During off season)
Sunday: 12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Monday: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Thursday: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday: 4:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Saturday: 12:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Do you have any past moderating experience? If so, briefly describe it: Yes, I have had previous moderating experience. The servers that I managed are mostly prison and skyblock. However, none of these servers are what I would call “popular” or “big” servers. These servers would usually be brand new and would average maybe 10-20 players at any time. The reason why these servers have a non-existent player base is due to the fact that it’s fully new. You could call me a so called “staff hunter” but that’s not really what I’m trying to do. The reason why I enjoy joining new servers is because I love to help owners get their servers started up. Whether it’s helping them setup ranks and permissions with PEx, helping them manage the staff, or even just regulating the chat and taking care of the recalcitrant player spamming. Being able to help out the Minecraft community is what I relish. After helping these owners get their servers started, just seeing how happy they are through even chat always makes my day, knowing that I was able to help someone else. In a short summary, yes I have had previous staff experience ranging from moderating discord servers, and being owner all the way down to helper.
When did you join MunchyMC and what made you stay? I joined MunchyMC on September 7th, 2019 as previously mentioned on my application. When I joined the hub I looked at the gamemodes that were available and decided to join prison due to my previous experience and amusement. When I joined I was immediately greeted with an avalanche of "Welcome CKRuki"s. I was very surprised with the amount of people who went out of their way to greet a new player they had no knowledge of. From there, a player messaged me, TripleLTv, telling me how to start playing. I looked at his balance which was 21 million and I asked him how he acquired so much money. He then told me to do /warp farm and to follow him, proceeding to sell me his farm and giving me a million dollars to buy it. I was shocked when this happened because of just joining and already getting taught to make millions just like the highest of players. This is the first event that took place which made me want to play on this server forever. Around two weeks pass by and I log onto prison and see that a player, GeorgeNotFound, is asking if anyone wants mafia? Me not knowing who it was and not understanding the question said sure. I was expected a mafia sword or piece of mafia equipment but then in chat came the message that I had “purchased” lifetime mafia. From this moment, I had never loved the server more, seeing how kind this community really is in helping other people. From receiving 1 million to getting mafia, I had dedicated my time in prison to not only making money to rank up, but to make money to donate to new players. From simply saying “Welcome” to every new player who joins, teaching them how to play, and even donating 100,000 to a million for them to rent their own farm. I always saw this as a job to always give back to the community since you never know what kind of day that player is having. It’s always nice to be able to imagine the grin they have behind their computer screen.
What is your your knowledge of MunchyMC? Although I have not been a part of this community for long, I have done research on this matter. MunchyMC is a revamped version of McPvP. This is where BadBoyHalo was able to start MunchyMC on June 15, 2015. I will now be listing the gamemodes in popularity:
KitPvP: KitPvP is hands down the most popular gamemode on MunchyMC. This gamemode is a great way to improve on your pvp skills while having fun with your friends. There are two different sections in KitPvP: casual and 1v1 arena. Casual is a big map where you can select your own kit from a basic iron armor set to kits that can give you special powers. The best way to describe it is a mosh pit where every player is for themselves, having to fight off multiple players at the same time is frustrating but yet still fun. 1v1 arena speaks for itself, you play against one player in a small arena to find out who the best is. This is an ELO based system, a method of calculating skill levels created by Arpad Elo. You can send 1v1 invites to random players or even have miniature tournaments amongst your friends. There are also events that can be hosted by players on the Event team or even staff members. These events are fun little side games that you can play to try and lower your frustration by having a little bit of fun.
Prison: Prison is the second most popular but my favorite gamemode on MunchyMc. Prison is a very famous gamemode amongst many different servers. Since this is the gamemode that I am most knowledgeable of, I will be giving the most information about it. There are a vast amount of things you can do in Prison:
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Ranking Up: This is the most important aspect of playing prison. As you rank up, the prices of each rank will increase, making it harder for players as they continue. You start off with the tag of (New), from there you rank up to D4. The way ranking up is that you start at D1 and you rank up to D4. After D4, you rank up to C1 and repeat the same process up to A4. After you rank up from there you get the tag of (FREE). You then have the option to stay as free for as long as you want, or prestige and start over again at (New). This may seem like a disadvantage, but for each prestige you get certain buffs like permanent speed, regeneration, strength, etc. You can check who is the highest prestige by doing /ranktop.
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Mining: The number one thing every player does depending on what they’re playing, mining. To teleport to D1mine every time you can do /warp mine. To reach your best accessible mine do /mine. As you rankup, each block (D1-4, C1-4, B1-4, A1-4) each mine progressively gets better and better. For example, the D1 mine is mostly filled with stone, coal, and iron. While if you would go to A4mine, it would be filled with diamond, emerald, iron, gold blocks and ore. Depending on what kind of gear set you have, mining can either be your best enemy, or best friend.
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Farming: Farming is definitely one of the highest and fastest ways of receiving a large income. Although finding a farm is a challenge of itself, scraping up the needed 1 million to rent a farm for 7 days is the difficult aspect of farming. However, once you are able to rent a farm, you can easily make 5x as much money as the farm cost if you spend an hour or two working on making your farm the best. There are multiple different items that can be sold as so called “drugs”: Cocoa Beans aka Cocoa, Wheat aka Weed, Sugar Cane aka Opium, Melons aka Juicy Fruit, and last but not least Nether warts aka Acid. Cocoa has been the biggest drug that players have become fond of growing simply because one cocoa bean is worth 1001. While it may not seem like a lot, a full inventory is around 2 million. Farming cocoa can be way easier as long as you have the Demeter Thumb and Boots. The Demeter Boots harvest the cocoa while the Demeter Thumb re-plants all the cocoa, speeding up the process by an insane amount. Players in the community have said that the developers should remove farming but I believe it is a way for players who can’t pvp or players who’s device isn’t capable of handling pvp, to be able to have a steady income.
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Cells: Cells are a nice way to store your important valuables. As you rank up, (D, C, B, A) the cells get more expensive, but they increase in size. This can be very nice when needing to store valuables that you don’t have space for in your inventory. Similar to farms, you have to re-rent your cell every 7 days or else it is up for grabs and any player can come and steal your items so be careful to always check how much time is left. Cells have a very cool addition though, being able to “trust” and “cellmate” your friends. Having the “trust” tag means that the player can teleport to your cells by using /cell (cell/farm)(number) and can see what’s inside your chests. Being “cellmated” means the same thing, however you can access the insides of chests so be careful who you cellmate. Try and roam the map and find secret cells! They are hidden throughout mines, warps, and even out of the map. Try and rent all the secret cells you find so you can boast to your friends.
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Blackmarket: The blackmarket is accessible by doing the command /warp blackmarket. It is an easy way of being able to put up no longer needed items while having to get offline. Players can use the command /bms sell (price) and right click on a sign to put an item up for sale. This makes it so you can be offline and receive money, making it an easy way to get income by doing simply nothing. It can also be an effective way of making sure you don’t get scammed. Instead of having the player drop the item or pay first, you can simply just put the item up on the blackmarket and this makes it so you can’t be conned out of your money. This also prevents other players from outbidding you, guaranteeing your item.
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Auction: The auction house is a nice way to get a lot of money for items you don’t need anymore. The auction house works in a way that you put up an item by doing /auction (starting amount) (increment). The starting amount is straight forward, it’s the lowest a player can bid to get that item. The increment is the least the amount has to go up by, for example, if the increment is 10 then it would go 10, 20, 30, etc.
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Rare Items: In prison, you can find many different items, ranging from regular vanilla crafted items, to Semi-Rare, Ultra, Ultra-Legendary, Legendary, Fabled, and Mythical. Semi-rares are not very uncommon, as most of the community has them, these include: Guard gear, Lucky/Miner’s Pick, Street Corn, Bag of Wind, and many more! When most players become very rich, the main use for these items are either gifting them to new players, or slotting them in the casino. Each ultra has a specific ability, making them both confusing, but fun to use. For example, the Demeter set automatically harvests and plants cocoa beans. Most ultras don’t go for that much as they’re starting to get more and more common due to how long it has been from a reset. There are many different kinds of ultra sets, sets for PvP, looting, farming, mining, etc.
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Exit: The exit is a very fun way to make risky money. You can reach this by doing /warp exit and walking through the portal. The outside world is in an apocalyptic setting, as there are many mobs walking around trying to kill everyone they see. Throughout the map, there are many chests with loot in them, having from a couple hundred dollars to even ultras or legendaries. Be careful though, since the outside world has PvP enabled, which means that you should always be watching over your shoulder for a player sneaking up on you. To return to the prison follow the compass but if you need to log off as soon as possible you can do /logout to safely leave. When you re-join the server you will be put in the same spot you originally left at.
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Casino: The casino is where you can satisfy your risky needs. Just by doing /warp casino you will be put in a beautifully built casino where you can put semi-rares+ into slots, bid on snails, roulette, and more. This can be a great way to make fast cash, but don’t get too addicted because you could also lose all of your hard earned cash. This is also a very common place where drop parties take place.
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Ranks: There are a multitude of ranks on prison: Thug, Savage, Brute, and Mafia. You can get every rank except mafia for one month at a discounted price, or you can spend your money to buy these ranks for a lifetime. From buying these ranks you can receive many different perks like a join message, specific sounds, ability to make your own gang, and crates. Crates are a fun way to try your luck since for example a mafia crate, you could get a single piece of dirt or you can get ultras. You receive a free crate daily and if you have a rank you will receive a daily crate leading up to that rank. Mafia will get a daily crate and each rank below its crate.
Survival: Survival is a fun way to go back to your vanilla roots, having fun with your friends to try and build huge houses or whatever your heart desires. Unlike vanilla though, it does have McMMO, auctioning, and claiming. McMMO is a plugin that allows you to level up certain Minecraft skills ranging from mining to brewing. Auction, like mentioned earlier in the prison section, you have the ability to put up items that you don’t need anymore for a little bit of extra gold. You can use this to claim more spots, making sure that your beautiful base won’t get griefed.
Wool Wars: Wool Wars is a free for all game where the map is built vertically, with chests randomly placed as you go up. You can select different kits that allow you to have certain advantages over other players. The goal of the gamemode is to build up, loot chests, and kill every player trying to take your spot. Be fast though, since the floor starts building up with sand which will kill you.
Purgatory: Purgatory is a very interesting idea which is never seen across many multiplayer servers. Players that have been caught cheating will be sent to purgatory where they must complete a certain amount of challenges to earn a free unban! Once the player makes up the challenges or has an appeal that was accepted, they will be sent out of purgatory back into the regular server. Players who are not banned also have the ability of joining purgatory. Spectators will have a chance to use certain trolling weapons that challenge the banned players from succeeding. If you aren’t banned you can use the command /adventure to try and challenge yourself in seeing if you can complete the achievements.
Hub: Although this is not a gamemode, it still should have it’s own sections. The hub is the very first thing you see whenever you log onto MunchyMC. From here, you can access every gamemode that is open to the public. You can have fun with gadgets and bows, flinging cows into the air. One of the more fun things is that there is a parkour in spawn. This isn’t only a regular parkour, but if you record yourself completing it without cheating (no double jump boosting), then you will receive a free month of Elite.
Do you have any Anticheat experience? I don’t have any anticheat due to the server that I played on, being too small and not needing an anticheat. However, I do understand how Hypixel’s anti-cheat, Watch Dog, works. Other than that I don’t know what goes into Ares but I would love to be educated upon this matter.
Link us to any hacker reports you have made (recorded and/or reported) on MunchyMC: I have made one hacker report on prison but it was denied due to insufficient evidence. Players hacking on prison is very rare and I didn’t want to include hackers from other gamemodes due to me wanting to keep it only prison. However, I have made many chat reports throughout discord. Although I understand what most hacks look like, the scarcity of hackers on prison has made it hard for me to record them.
Languages spoken: I am fully fluent in English and I can maintain a solid conversation in Japanese. I am currently learning French in school so I am able to understand what other players are saying, but not be able to respond in fully fluent French.
Describe your contributions to MunchyMC thus far? My contributions have not been the best but I know I’m making a change. Prison is infamous for the amount of toxicity that goes on throughout the day. I believe I am improving this due to the fact that I’m always positive and trying to pick people up just so people would enjoy playing prison instead of some other gamemode. Whether it’s asking how everyone’s day was going or even helping some people with their homework, I always try to take care of other people in the community. I feel that I’m someone who welcomes a lot of the players into the community and offers them help or useful advise that they could use to improve their gameplay. Other than that, most of my contributions would be reporting minor or major chat infractions. I have submitted many different reports on discord so if you would like to you can scroll through the prison-reports section on the discord and see most of my reports there.
What is your greatest strength? My greatest strength is how versatile I am. Versatility is very important in a staff position. For example, knowing how to react and apply yourself in certain situations is something very few people have. I am a very flexible person, I don’t really stay mad at any particular person for a long time unless they truly did something atrocious. I feel that I can adapt to many different situations, whether it’s situations I feel uncomfortable in expressing my opinion in, or one that I don’t really have a point on. Due to my previous experience, I am also able to do many different things on the server ranging from helping new players, regulating the chat, making sure nobody is getting any unfair advantages, etc. I am also very open minded, I love to have civil conversations on specific matters going on in the world around us. Usually in these conversations I will stick with my opinion, however, if I hear something that I believe contradicts my opinion, I will start to try and understand how other people see it, as I’m not always right.
Comment on your ability to work within a team: From my time in playing football, I have learned many different leadership qualities. Bringing other people up instead of bringing them down, making sure they do their job, not always taking control and leading but seeing what others are capable of and then telling them if they’re not doing their best. Being a leader isn’t just about being the person leading the whole group through a presentation or game or anything. Being a leader is about being someone that people can look up to, have trust in, and know that they will try their absolute best in every situation they face.
What is your experience and knowledge of hacks? I will be splitting these hacks into four different categories:
Combat Hacks:
- Kill Aura: The most infamous combat hack that is commonly seen throughout pvp servers. Kill aura is a hack that includes an aimbot, triggerbot which means it automatically hits for you. It constantly tries to go for the closest player and can be tested by flying an entity around the player to see if it would aimbot towards it. Newer hack clients are able to go around this test but this is a very easy hack to spot as their head is commonly seen jerking around.
- Forcefield: This is a hack that doesn’t let anyone in a close radius from you. This can be tested by walking up behind a player and if their head immediately flicks backwards and starts swinging then this is forcefield.
- Reach: Reach is another hack that is very easy to identify. The minecraft model can only reach 3 blocks so if you are getting hit from more than that, it is most likely you they are reach hacking.
- Criticals: This is a more difficult hack to identify. Critical hits are usually dealt by jumping and attacking your opponent. This hack allows you to deal critical attacks while staying on the ground.
- Aimbot: This hack is mostly seen on bows or even swords. For bows, it will show pinpoint where it will land and newer hacks are beginning to put into play the actual minecraft physics with arrows. Aimbot with swords will basically make it so it fixes your crosshair onto them to hit when it should have been a miss.
- Triggerbot: A triggerbot is also what is in a kill aura hack. It automatically attacks for you whatever your crosshair is looking at.
- Fast Bow: Fast bow is a hack where you are allowed to spam arrows faster than the game is supposed to be letting you. It’s very easy to detect since it will be way too fast for them to shoot.
Movement Hacks:
- Fly: Fly is a very difficult hack to notice on prison due to the fact that there are different items that give you fly. For example, shifting with the St.Pat’s plate will allow you to float in the direction you are aiming and also the Nike Golden Wings allow you to fly. However, you can’t fly with them in pvp.
- AntiKnockback: This is a pretty obvious hack to see in regular pvp but on prison there is an item that makes you take no knockback. The Ultra-Legendary version of Ares Legs will prevent you from taking knockback, which gives an advantage since you can stay in close range of your opponent.
- NoSlowDown: In Minecraft, there are multiple things that will make you slow down. For example, getting hit by a fishing rod, drawing a bow, hitting a player, walking on soul sand, and more. This hack will allow them to move at the regular speed, and not be bothered by the slowing effects.
- Jesus: This is a fairly easy hack to see, however the Poseidon armor makes you able to quickly go through any water. However, Jesus is a hack that lets you walk on top of water so it will be easy to detect.
- Speed: Speed is a hack that lets you go very fast, which is similar to Hermes Boots, but not as fast. This will be another easy hack to detect.
- Bhop / Bunnyhopping: Bunnyhopping, similar to Counter Strike:Global Offensive, strafe-jumping will allow you to increase your velocity. Bunnyhopping will allow you to increase your velocity while jumping, which is a very weird look, and easy to detect.
- Blink: Blink is a hack that gives the characteristics of someone who is lagging, making them seem like they are “teleporting”. There are items that teleport you like Zeus’ Bolt and Warp Drive, but not the the extremity of blink.
- Scaffolding: In the world, scaffolds are temporary structures that workers build where they can work off of and easily reach the area they are assigned to work on. Like this, if a player is scaffolding, they will be able to instantly place a block below them if they’re in air. This is easily detectable due to the fact that it isn’t possible to directly place a block beneath you without looking at the previous block.
- Spider: Spider is a hack that gives you the characteristics of a spider. You will be able to climb walls freely.
- HighJump: This is a hack that will let you jump very high. The Nike Golden Wings when shifted on, will give you a huge boost throughout the air, and there are other items that let you jump higher. However, it is easy to detect due to the /invsee command and being able to see the items they have.
- MenuWalk: This is a fairly easy hack to detect since it allows players to access items in their inventory while walking which isn’t possible. This can be detected by using the /invsee command and seeing when they move if they’re moving items around.
Visual:
- X-Ray: X-Ray is a hack that allows players to make certain blocks invisible, allowing them to find specific ores. This is not a very useful hack on prison due to the amount of ores in mines, if the x-ray allowed them to see only chests that would make it a very useful hack. Easy to detect due to the player mining in straight lines directly to the block.
- ChestESP: This is the version of X-ray but only highlighting chests, ender-chests, and double chests. Useful for finding chests in the mines and easy to detect.
- HealthTags: This is a hack that allows you to view other player’s health, while some minecraft mods do this, it is not allowed on MunchyMC.
- NameTags: Name tags is a hack that makes all name tags look bigger, which can be used in the exit to easily find people.
- PlayerESP: This is a hack that highlights players with a rectangle, allowing you to see players from different distances.
- Tracers: This hack is commonly seen in hacked clients, it connects a line to the closest player to you, which can be used in the exit instead of using a tracker.
- Trajectories: When using a bow, egg, or any shootable item, it will show the arc that the entity will fall at, making it easy to predict bow shots.
Other:
- AutoMine: It will automatically mine the block that you are looking at.
- AutoBlock: Blocking with your sword and hitting someone deals more damage so it will automatically do this for you, allowing you to get more damage.
- AutoArmor: When receiving a piece of armor, it will automatically equip it, making it a very useful hack for survival games.
- AutoSoup: This will automatically drink soup for you when you are low on health, commonly seen on KitPvP due to soup healing you. This is easily detectable since the player will be fighting and automatically healing.
- AutoSteal: A common hack that is seen on Survival Games as it automatically loots the whole chest when you open it. It makes it so you can get the contents of the chest first other than the other player.
- Regen: Regenerates your health at a very high rate, which is usually glitchy and hard to tell due to God Apples.
- Derp: Derp is a hack that makes your head go inside your character, and move around in different places constantly.
- Macros: Although macros are not necessarily a hack, they should be included on this list. Macros are specific things that the game will do for you when pressing a key. For example, doing /sellall with a click of a button.
- AutoClicker: An auto-clicker has macro-like capabilities. It will click at an increased speed that is inhuman. Commonly seen in KitPvP due to the amount of clicks per second it can achieve.
This will conclude my Staff Application. If you read through this all I greatly appreciate taking time out of your day to truly go through everything I have written. Feel free to message me on Discord, CKRuki#5506, and give me any advice or feedback. Thank you again and I hope you all have a lovely day/evening.
Edits:
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