Paper

The most widely used, high-performance Minecraft server that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies.

Support and Project Discussion:

• Our forums or Discord

How To (Server Admins)

Paperclip is a jar file that you can download and run just like a normal jar file.

Download Paper from our downloads page.

Run the Paperclip jar directly from your server. Just like old times

• Documentation on using Paper: docs.papermc.io
• For a sneak peek at upcoming features, see here

How To (Plugin Developers)

• See our API here
• See upcoming, pending, and recently added API here
• Paper API javadocs here: papermc.io/javadocs

Repository (for paper-api)

Maven

<repository>
    <id>papermc</id>
    <url>https://repo.papermc.io/repository/maven-public/</url>
</repository>

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.papermc.paper</groupId>
    <artifactId>paper-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.21.10-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Gradle

repositories {
    maven {
        url = uri("https://repo.papermc.io/repository/maven-public/")
    }
}

dependencies {
    compileOnly("io.papermc.paper:paper-api:1.21.10-R0.1-SNAPSHOT")
}

java {
    toolchain.languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(21))
}

How To (Compiling Jar From Source)

To compile Paper, you need JDK 21 and an internet connection.

Clone this repo, run ./gradlew applyPatches, then ./gradlew createMojmapBundlerJar from your terminal. You can find the compiled jar in the paper-server/build/libs directory.

To get a full list of tasks, run ./gradlew tasks.

How To (Pull Request)

See Contributing

Old Versions (1.21.3 and below)

For branches of versions 1.8-1.21.3, please see our archive repository.