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# If You Get Banned

<mark style="color:$info;">Even if you follow every lesson here, there's always a chance. No cheat makes an account unbannable, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. So here's what to do if it happens, and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.</mark>

#### Work Out What Kind of Ban It Was

<mark style="color:$info;">Before you spend a single dollar replacing anything, figure out why you got banned. It decides everything else.</mark>

* <mark style="color:$info;">**Was the cheat detected?**</mark> <mark style="color:$info;">Check the</mark> [<mark style="color:$info;">status page</mark>](https://arcticcheats.wtf/status)<mark style="color:$info;">. If your cheat isn't showing Undetected anymore, or a bunch of other people got hit at the same time, that's a detection wave. Wait for the cheat to be updated before you play again, otherwise you're just feeding it another account.</mark>
* <mark style="color:$info;">**Were you reported?**</mark> <mark style="color:$info;">If the status is still Undetected and nobody else got hit, it was how you played. A new account won't fix that unless you also change how you play.</mark>

<mark style="color:$info;">People skip this step all the time. They buy a new account, run the exact same config, and lose that one too.</mark>

#### Bans Can Be Delayed

<mark style="color:$info;">A lot of anti-cheats don't ban you on the spot. They save what they see and ban in waves days or even weeks later. So the ban you got today might be from something you did last week, and one clean session doesn't prove your settings are safe.</mark>

#### Did It Reach Your Hardware?

<mark style="color:$info;">Make a new account and try to play. If it gets blocked right away, the ban is on your PC and you'll need a spoofer. Everything you need to know is in the</mark> [<mark style="color:$info;">HWID Bans and Spoofers</mark>](/stay-undetected/introduction/hwid-bans-and-spoofers.md) <mark style="color:$info;">lesson.</mark>

#### Getting Back In

<mark style="color:$info;">Once you know what you're dealing with, it's pretty quick:</mark>

1. <mark style="color:$info;">Spoof if your hardware was banned.</mark>
2. <mark style="color:$info;">Get on a clean account, ideally one with hours on it (see</mark> [<mark style="color:$info;">High Houred Accounts</mark>](/stay-undetected/introduction/high-houred-accounts.md)<mark style="color:$info;">).</mark>
3. <mark style="color:$info;">Be honest with yourself about what got you banned before you queue again.</mark>

<mark style="color:$info;">Also keep in mind that repeat offenses on the same account usually get punished harder. If an account already got a temp ban, treat it as marked.</mark>

#### Don't Fall Into the Replacement Trap

<mark style="color:$info;">Getting back in only takes a few minutes, and that's exactly what makes it expensive. When recovery is easy it's tempting to treat accounts like they're disposable and play more blatant, which leads to more bans, which leads to more accounts. The people spending the most money on this are almost always the ones who found getting back in easy.</mark>

<mark style="color:$info;">**The cheapest way to cheat is to not get banned in the first place.**</mark> <mark style="color:$info;">An account with real history, settings that don't look like a cheat, and the habits from these lessons.</mark>