cucumber is a featureful moderation plugin. Its main components are (1) logging and (2) punishment (ban/mute) management. The latter uses a MySQL database to store data, so a MySQL server is a requirement when using cucumber.

Individual, IP, and "ultimate" bans are supported. Individual bans are much like a regular /ban, but with extra features such as the ability to be temporary. IP bans ban an IP and have many of the same features as individual bans. Ultimate bans (uban) ban any player who joins using a certain IP. This is different from an IP ban, as players who join with a banned IP and are as a result banned will remain so even if they change their IP. Ultimate bans are however irreversible and therefore cannot be pardoned or expire. cucumber also supports the muting of players, as well as several other miscellaneous features.

Logging

cucumber logs various events¹ to a path specified in config.yml. Several loggers (including custom ones) can also be defined in config.yml. (By default, a BaseLogger exists that logs to log_out.txt.) Messages are logger every 10 seconds asynchronously. (Timestamps are preserved, they are calculated upon scheduling the logging of the message, not when the message is written to the file.)

¹ cucumber logs the following: join, join attempt (if a player attempts to join while banned), quit, chat, chat attempt (if a player attempts to chat while muted), command

Punishment Management

cucumber enables advanced banning of players and IPs, as well as muting.

Command	Description	Usage	Tags
/ban	Ban a player by name	/ban <player> [reason] [-duration|-d <duration>]	-duration specifies the amount of time until the ban expires
/banlist	See the list of bans	/banlist
/pardon	Pardon a player	/pardon <player>
/ipban	Ban an IP	/ipban <target> [reason] [-duration|-d <duration>] [-player|-p] [-ip]	-duration specifies the amount of time until the ban expires -player specifies that a player is to be banned -ip specifies that an IP is to be banned If neither or both of the -player and -ip are be set, the command will infer whether a player or an IP is to be banned
/ipbanlist	See the list of IP bans	/ipbanlist
/ippardon	Pardon an IP	/ippardon <ip>
/uban	Ban any player that joins using an IP. Irreversible	/uban <target> [reason] [-player|-p] [-ip]	-player specifies that a player is to be banned -ip specifies that an IP is to be banned If neither or both of the -player and -ip are be set, the command will infer whether a player or an IP is to be banned
/mute	Mute a player	/mute <player> [reason] [-duration|-d <duration>]	-duration specifies the amount of time until the ban expires
/mutelist	See the list of mutes	/mutelist
/unmute	Unmute a player	/unmute <player>

Duration

In a duration tag:

• y: year
• M: month
• w: week
• d: day
• h: hour
• m: minute

For instance, 1y3M means one year and three months (a year and a quarter). 1w2d12h means one week, two days, and twelve hours (nine days and a half).

Miscellaneous

cucumber also has miscellaneous moderation commands that are not related to punishment management.

Command	Description	Usage	Tags
/rawtell	Send a raw message to a player	/rawtell <player> <message> [-nomessage|-nom] [-popup|-p] [-title|-t]	-nomessage does not send a chat message -popup sends a popup -titlesends a title
/log	Log a message	/log <message> [-severity|-s <severity>]	-severity specifies the severity at which to log the message
/alert	Broadcast a message to the server	/alert <message> [-nomessage|-nom] [-popup|-p] [-title|-t]	-nomessage does not send a chat message -popup sends a popup -title sends a title
/ip	Get a player's IP	/ip <player>
/vanish	Vanish from other player's sight	/vanish

Severity

In a severity tag:

• log: Normal, ordinary events
• notice: Normal but noticeable events
• important: Significant events
• alert: Exceptional events that likely require monitoring