Ideas for identifying a griefer on my Minecraft Realm by using save games?

A big lead that should help you is the fact that you can access each of the player's statistics in the world's stats folder.

Inside the folder you'll see a bunch of JSON files, one for each player, named with their UUID:

JSON files

Open up the JSON files with any text editor, and you can look through everything the game stores to show the player on their statistics screen. One of the things you'll probably want to look for is if the player's "stat.useItem.minecraft.tnt" (how many times they've placed TNT) increased between the saves.


Another thing to check in the NBT data is both player's enderchests under the EnderItems tag; this may be where they are hiding the diamonds.

Using NBTExplorer, or MCEdit, you should also be able to check both player's coordinates before and after the incident, although it may be that whichever one did it ran far away immediately afterwards.


The easiest way to know for certain is to ask them directly with their parents present, both at the same time ideally. Tell their parents that someone has been bullying other kids in the online game you host and that, based on the logs, you can determine that the only people online at the time were their kids. Then you can let the parents discuss this with their kids and take the necessary steps.

Alternatively, you say they blew something up and destroyed blocks, right? You could in theory check if one of them has lost materials that can make a button, a redstone torch or a lever, and how much durability their pickaxe and/or axe has lost. However, this would be much more intensive to check, because you also need to verify that they didn't lose that in another way.