Minecraft players reverse-engineer hunger bar jitter to detect video cheats
paul_cal · x · 2026-10-15
Xor tweeted that the Minecraft community figured out how to reverse-engineer the random jolts of the hunger bar to calculate exact in-game time — and use it to catch cheats faking runs via video editing. qonundrai marveled at the ingenuity ("imagine how much cancer we could cure with that brainpower"), and paulcal quipped that's not how anything actually works.
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