What it does
Baritone is a bot that plays for a human: it finds its own path, digs tunnels, mines ore, builds from a schematic and places blocks around itself. It's installed as a mod or built into a cheat client; the player types a command and the character works for hours, hands-free.
On survival and anarchy that means endless mining and builds an honest player would spend weeks on: diamonds, netherite and farms appear for whoever was asleep. Some servers forbid such bots in their rules, others tolerate them — so the anticheat has to catch them while the decision to punish stays with the owner.
How to spot it
- Digs perfectly straight tunnels and shafts for hours without a break
- Turns the camera to every block with the same motion, no overshoot or correction
- Ignores chat, hits and nearby players while it works
- Places and breaks blocks at an even pace, as if to a metronome
How it gets caught
A human aims at a block wherever the crosshair lands: an edge, a corner. A bot computes where to look and hits the exact centre of the block with its ray — again and again, hundreds of blocks in a row. A real hand can't hold that precision for even a minute, and that's where a bot shows best.
Turns add to it: the mouse moves the camera in sensitivity steps, while a bot turns by exactly the angle it needs. The conclusion comes from a long series of actions, not one block. In DGuard the server owner picks the punishment for mining and building bots — from none to a ban.