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-'''Orebfuscation''' (from '''ore''' and ob'''fuscation''') is a common mechanic on civ servers which makes sought-after blocks (such as diamond ore) appear visually as undesirable blocks (such as stone) until the player comes within a certain distance. This replacement is purely visual, and is meant to lessen the effectiveness of x-raying (using disallowed mods to see blocks a vanilla client would not be able to).
+'''Orebfuscation''' (from ''ore'' and ''obfuscation'') is a common mechanic on civ servers which visually obscures valuable blocks until a player comes within a certain distance. This is done to decrease the effectiveness of x-ray as a means of finding [[infrastructure]] (such as [[Bunker|bunkers]] or [[Snitch|snitches]]), or anything else a player wishes to keep hidden.
-Orebfuscation is applied by the [https://github.com/Imprex-Development/orebfuscator Orebfuscator] plugin.
+Orebfuscation is applied by the [https://github.com/Imprex-Development/orebfuscator Orebfuscator] plugin. Orebfuscator is one of the few plugins commonly used on civ servers that was not written specifically for civ as a genre.
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