Recommended stacks - Baconz Plugins

Halt is the incident-response layer. Pair it with packet hardening, vanilla patches, and a combat anticheat when those layers matter for your gamemode. Halt does not replace them. Baseline for every stack:

Paper (or Folia) with sensible book / item validation settings. Halt’s jar is Java 17 bytecode; Paper/Folia 1.20.5–1.21.x hosts need Java 21; 26.1+ hosts need Java 25. Folia 26.2 is experimental.
Halt with alert-first defaults
Discord webhook configured for HIGH/CRITICAL

SMP / economy survival

Layer	Recommendation
Packet / crash	LPX or ExploitFixer
Vanilla patches	IllegalStack (tune carefully)
Combat AC	GrimAC or Vulcan (pick one; do not stack both)
Incident response	Halt
Rollback	CoreProtect (or equivalent)

Skyblock / BoxPvP

Layer	Recommendation
Packet / crash	LPX or ExploitFixer
Vanilla patches	IllegalStack modules that match island/shop mechanics
Combat AC	GrimAC or Vulcan
Incident response	Halt — lean on DupeWatch + lockdown
Rollback	CoreProtect

Lifesteal / PvP-heavy

Layer	Recommendation
Packet / crash	LPX or ExploitFixer
Combat AC	GrimAC or Vulcan
Incident response	Halt — MineWatch/FreecamWatch for abuse review; lockdown for active economy incidents
Client policy (optional)	Sentry / similar for banned clients

Minimal budget stack

Layer	Recommendation
Packet / crash	Paper limits + free ExploitShield, or skip if risk is low
Vanilla patches	IllegalStack
Combat AC	GrimAC
Incident response	Halt

Coexistence rules

Do not stack Grim and Vulcan.
Prefer one packet firewall (LPX or ExploitFixer), not both.
ExploitFixer may conflict with other packet listeners (HamsterAPI path). Follow that product’s guidance.
Halt stays on Bukkit-level signals and does not require PacketEvents, ProtocolLib, or HamsterAPI.

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