This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn't take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully...... even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope....
Can't you cheat in MC by just removing a pixel in a block to make it transparent?
But I only ever played it coop, so it doesn't really matter.
Basically, yes. There are many ways. But:
An anti-xray plugin is nowadays as common for servers as lithium or essentials. It either removes all important blocks from view, inserts fake blocks (eg. ores) or just makes everything appear as only stone. The middle option can even serve as evidence of a player using xray. For preventing ESP, you can do effectively the same but with players: Hide them and their particles until they're in view, and randomize their sounds' position, so that a client mod does not provide any more advantage than having decent headphones.
Server-side culling essentially.
The ones that modify the world’s blocks often cause a lot of lag unfortunately.
The game doesn't render blocks that aren't exposed to air. So that trick let's you see caves and some ores, but not most ores.