Geyser VS Waterfall

Compare Geyser vs Waterfall and see what are their differences.

Geyser

A bridge/proxy allowing you to connect to Minecraft: Java Edition servers with Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. (by GeyserMC)

Waterfall

BungeeCord fork that aims to improve performance and stability. (by PaperMC)
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Geyser Waterfall
464 10
4,388 731
2.0% 0.5%
9.4 7.5
4 days ago 2 days ago
Java Shell
MIT License MIT License
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Geyser

Posts with mentions or reviews of Geyser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.

Waterfall

Posts with mentions or reviews of Waterfall. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-31.
  • Announcing Lodestone, a FOSS self-hosted Minecraft server management tool
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 31 Jan 2023
    Looks cool. Any plans on supporting proxies such as BungeeCord or Waterfall?
  • Running Minecraft servers from Docker
    4 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2022
    So in this post we've created a Vanilla server, maintained and managed through docker. I highly recommend reading through the docs for this image as there's tons of configuration available, including support for modded servers. You can add more servers to this config and use something like BungieCord or PaperMC Waterfall switch servers ingame.
  • Reverse Proxying
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 6 Apr 2022
    To explain the differences between the proxies, BungeeCord is the original proxy, Waterfall is "BungeeCord fork that aims to improve performance and stability" and Velocity is "The modern, next-generation Minecraft server proxy".
  • Is there anyway to make a big Minecraft server?
    4 projects | /r/Minecraft | 4 Sep 2021
    Look into hosting it. If you have extremely good hardware, do self hosting. Or if you don't and rather want to pay, use third party hosting sites. nitrado or g-portal can handle the loads most likely. You will also want to spilt the servers into multiple servers, and hook them up using BungeeCord/Waterfall or Velocity
  • Help/Guidance on Building Server - NOT Advertising
    6 projects | /r/Minecraft | 19 Jun 2021
    I would always say that if you want to stick to plugins, always go for Paper. It's much faster than spigot (and here's the reason why), open source, and fixes bugs and exploits that spigot or upstream vanilla won't fix. It's a fork of Spigot, so you get all the features of spigot, and the lag reduction is really good on paper. I would recommend using Bungeecord or Waterfall as the proxy (which is a speical server software that allows players to hop between servers without having to join and quit. if you have played on network servers like hypixel, they use proxies, but it's on a more massive and complex scale), and use Paper or Tuinity as the backend servers (the actual servers you'll play on). Have the lobby server set as the default server, and either use 8 different servers or use 2-4 different servers with Multiverse and create 2-4 different worlds on within the servers.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Geyser and Waterfall you can also consider the following projects:

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

velocity - Accelerated JavaScript animation.

Floodgate - Hybrid mode plugin to allow for connections from Geyser to join online mode servers.

TunnelMC - Connect to Minecraft Bedrock Edition servers from Minecraft Java Edition.

ViaVersion - Allows the connection of newer clients to older server versions for Minecraft servers.

Purpur - Purpur is a drop-in replacement for Paper servers designed for configurability, and new fun and exciting gameplay features.

docker-minecraft-server - Docker image that provides a Minecraft Server that will automatically download selected version at startup

BedrockConnect - Join any Minecraft Bedrock Edition server IP on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PS4/PS5

Nukkit - Cloudburst Nukkit - Nuclear-Powered Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Server Software

Mohist - Minecraft Forge Hybrid server implementing the Spigot/Bukkit API, formerly known as Thermos/Cauldron/MCPC+