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Minecraft Term:

    Griefing is the act of irritating and angering people in video games through the use of destruction, construction, or social engineering. Popularized in Minecraft by teams, griefing has become a serious problem for server administrators who wish to foster building and protect builders. Most players tend to dislike and frown upon griefing, while others feel it adds a certain degree of drama to the game.

Basically, for example lets say I build a structure that took ages on a server and someone comes and blows it up with TNT and lava. I just lost a valuable home in the game which is why many players get mad.



Destruction:

    Self-explanatory. Most griefers' goals are to destroy as much land, buildings and creations as they can in order to make the server as destroyed and unusable as possible. This can include Creative "nuking", where users can instantly destroy all blocks in reach, or "torch nuking" when the griefer destroys only torches (many hacked clients have these as built in features). A more time-consuming and generally expensive method of griefing is creation of TNT cannons to bombard other players' creations from a safe distance. In very rare cases, they will cut out a fairly large chunk of your house, usually in a square, and fill it with water, to make it harder for you to re-build it.

Another approach is to pack every open space in a house with TNT and light it.

Creation:

    Nearly as frequently as simple destruction of servers, griefers also often attempt to create offensive structures such as swastikas, and nude or offensive pixel art. Also, cages around players that are AFK are built, often of materials unable to mined with tools obtained early on, like obsidian. Sometimes players even surround other players' structures with obsidian, sand or gravel, sometimes with bedrock(by creative users) (the latter two are annoying due to their falling properties).

Trolling:

    Trolls like to annoy people, rather than grief. There are several ways to troll, such as killing a person and them watching while you throw their diamond pickaxe into lava, spamming, and promising to give them stuff, giving them the stuff, then killing them the moment they go out of a safe zone.	

There also many others possible ways but there are too much to list.



Players do simply for the pleasure of destroying others work and considers himself and "trolling genius". Some people grief after getting bored and looks for servers without protected work. Some players can successfully social engineer an owner to obtain admin and destroy the entire server.


Thank you for reading guys!

Oklahoma

Nice posts. Defiantly learned some stuff.

Yea, thought people would like to know

great to know before i buy it. thanks for sharing.

What griefing is: Gay
lol...griefing is annoying when 10-years old kids think they are funny when doing it on non-PVP server. But griefing in Survival PVP...it's just pure hardcore and part of survival pvp.

This is also the reason most servers come with anti-griefing mods now to help reduce the destruction of structures.