Introduction
Warden AC is a management and moderation dashboard for the Grim anticheat. Grim does the hard part — detecting cheats — and Warden AC turns that into something your staff actually want to open.
What Warden AC is
Grim is a free, open-source, prediction-based anticheat for Minecraft. It's excellent at detecting movement and combat cheats, but on its own it lives in your server console and config files. Warden AC adds the layer on top: a live dashboard where your moderators see flags as they happen, look up any player's history, watch a 2D map of who is where, and warn, kick or ban across your whole network from one place.
You keep using Grim exactly as you do today. Warden AC never replaces it — it reads from it and gives you a place to act on what it finds.
The three pieces
Warden AC has three parts that work together:
- The plugin — a small Paper plugin you install alongside Grim on each server. It reads Grim's flags and samples lightweight telemetry (player positions for the map), then streams it to the backend. The plugin is open and free.
- The backend — the service that receives data from your servers and powers the dashboard in real time. You don't run this; we host it.
- The dashboard — the web app at your account on wardenac.com where you and your team review flags, moderate, and manage your network.
What you need
- A Minecraft server running Paper (or a compatible fork) with Grim installed and working.
- Java 21, which modern Paper already requires.
- A Warden AC account and an active plan to connect your servers.
Where to go next
If you just want to get running, jump to the Quickstart. If you'd like to understand what's happening under the hood first, read How it works. Grim itself lives on GitHub.