Minestom VS Paper

Compare Minestom vs Paper and see what are their differences.

Paper

The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies (by PaperMC)
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Minestom Paper
31 338
2,095 8,793
2.9% 4.8%
9.4 9.8
5 days ago 7 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Minestom

Posts with mentions or reviews of Minestom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.
  • A guide to setting up a cloud server network
    4 projects | /r/admincraft | 2 Mar 2023
    - What server software or framework to use. Ideally, if you dont need too much vanilla features (world generation, all mobs & items implemented, etc), I'd use something lightweight that is not based off of the vanilla server software. There are a few projects like this on github, including: https://github.com/Minestom/Minestom , https://github.com/feather-rs/feather , https://github.com/KryptonMC/Krypton , https://github.com/df-mc/dragonfly (bedrock). Which one you use will probably depend mostly on your preference. - You will need a way to store data separate from the servers. A database like postgres should work. There are a lot of different databases tho!
  • Software that should be FOSS
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 22 Feb 2023
    Even if performance is your worry, Minestom is an open-source barebones reimplementation of the minecraft server. With this, you can make extremelly custom things and let people connect using the default vanilla client. Of coruse, you can pair this with a mod if you want to.
  • What software would I need
    2 projects | /r/admincraft | 20 Dec 2022
    Depends on what you're doing on said server. If it doesn't require vanilla mechanics then Minestom might suit the job well. Other than that, I'd recommend Paper, Purpur or Pufferfish.
  • how hypixel works ?
    2 projects | /r/Minecraft | 11 Jul 2022
    It's unlikely to achieve have such performance and feature using Paper/Bukkit/Spigot or the one provided by Mojang. If you want to write your own server-side software, you could use Minestom.
  • Building a custom minecraft server
    5 projects | /r/admincraft | 14 May 2022
  • Help! Minecraft School club suddenly got big...
    1 project | /r/Minecraft | 10 May 2022
    This is quite a difficult questions because it depends on which type of Minecraft is currently being used (java, bedrock, education). The hardware available for the server as well as the ages of the students. Normal Minecraft servers are notoriously single threaded which makes it hard to host a server for 75 without good hardware. You could look into a project called minestom which is a nice library for making a multi threaded server, but it would require the students to program the server themselves. Which definitely could be fun and educational, but isn't doable with younger students
  • Multi-core work load distribution hard
    1 project | /r/ScrapMechanic | 9 May 2022
    It is called Minestom. Its not done, but here is the website and discord. If you check out the showcase channel in the discord you'll see some pretty cool stuff they've made with the current program.
  • Lemásoltam az r/place-et a Minecraftban
    3 projects | /r/hungary | 19 Apr 2022
  • I want to stress test a 1.18 server (simulating players behaviour).
    3 projects | /r/admincraft | 13 Mar 2022
    Im experimenting with Minestom and I want to make some crazy stress tests (1k users).
  • Setting up Minecraft hosting for 300+ players
    5 projects | /r/admincraft | 18 Jan 2022
    Also to add to this, if you don't need full vanilla functionality and are more focus on higher player count than something slightly more experimental but more performant might be your best bet like GlowstoneMC (glowstone supports paper plugins) or Minestrom

Paper

Posts with mentions or reviews of Paper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.
  • PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2024
  • How to Setup a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu: A Step-by-Step Guide
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2024
    We will be downloading the Minecraft server files into this directory. To preface, there are numerous variations of server JARs that can be used (e.g. Spigot, Paper, Purpur each touting their own benefits). For this tutorial, we will be working with Paper, a fork of Spigot that is optimized for performance.
  • Create a personal server for a deleted game
    3 projects | /r/servers | 8 Dec 2023
    PaperMC, a minecraft server has over a quarter million lines of code Github link
  • "Private crash exploit" (container interaction packet abuse) lagging/crashing server
    1 project | /r/admincraft | 7 Dec 2023
    Paper fixed it here: https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/commit/8493340be4fa69fa9369719272e5dff1b7a2f455
  • Can't connect to server after new motherboard
    2 projects | /r/MinecraftServer | 17 Nov 2023
    G:\DedicatedServers\test>java -Xms10G -Xmx10G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:G1NewSizePercent=30 -XX:G1MaxNewSizePercent=40 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=8M -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:G1HeapWastePercent=5 -XX:G1MixedGCCountTarget=4 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=15 -XX:G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent=90 -XX:G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent=5 -XX:SurvivorRatio=32 -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 -Dusing.aikars.flags=https://mcflags.emc.gs -Daikars.new.flags=true -jar paper-1.20.2-291.jar --nogui Starting org.bukkit.craftbukkit.Main System Info: Java 17 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 17.0.2+8-86) Host: Windows 10 10.0 (amd64) Loading libraries, please wait... [13:37:15 INFO]: Environment: Environment[accountsHost=https://api.mojang.com, sessionHost=https://sessionserver.mojang.com, servicesHost=https://api.minecraftservices.com, name=PROD] [13:37:15 INFO]: Found new data pack file/bukkit, loading it automatically [13:37:16 INFO]: Loaded 7 recipes [13:37:16 INFO]: Starting minecraft server version 1.20.2 [13:37:16 INFO]: Loading properties [13:37:16 INFO]: This server is running Paper version git-Paper-291 (MC: 1.20.2) (Implementing API version 1.20.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT) (Git: ce7f068) [13:37:17 INFO]: Using 4 threads for Netty based IO [13:37:17 INFO]: Server Ping Player Sample Count: 12 [13:37:17 INFO]: [ChunkTaskScheduler] Chunk system is using 1 I/O threads, 6 worker threads, and gen parallelism of 6 threads [13:37:17 WARN]: [!] The timings profiler has been enabled but has been scheduled for removal from Paper in the future. We recommend installing the spark profiler as a replacement: https://spark.lucko.me/ For more information please visit: https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/issues/8948 [13:37:18 INFO]: Default game type: SURVIVAL [13:37:18 INFO]: Generating keypair [13:37:18 INFO]: Starting Minecraft server on *:25555 [13:37:18 INFO]: Using default channel type [13:37:18 INFO]: Paper: Using Java compression from Velocity. [13:37:18 INFO]: Paper: Using Java cipher from Velocity. [13:37:18 INFO]: Preparing level "world" [13:37:22 INFO]: Preparing start region for dimension minecraft:overworld [13:37:22 INFO]: Time elapsed: 52 ms [13:37:22 INFO]: Preparing start region for dimension minecraft:the_nether [13:37:22 INFO]: Time elapsed: 29 ms [13:37:22 INFO]: Preparing start region for dimension minecraft:the_end [13:37:22 INFO]: Time elapsed: 28 ms [13:37:22 INFO]: Running delayed init tasks [13:37:22 INFO]: Done (6.045s)! For help, type "help" [13:37:22 INFO]: Timings Reset
  • Server crash
    3 projects | /r/Minecraft | 25 Oct 2023
    For more information please visit: https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/issues/8948
  • Tnt duper not working [java] [1.20]
    1 project | /r/MinecraftHelp | 9 Jul 2023
  • [java] How do you host multiple Minecraft servers on the same IP?
    1 project | /r/MinecraftServer | 6 Jul 2023
    Go to papermc.io and download Waterfall or Velocity
  • Has this been happening to you guys ?
    1 project | /r/Minecraft | 1 Jul 2023
    This is actually a known issue which was mostly ignored: https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/issues/3110
  • Breaking the Limits: How Folia Made 1k Player Minecraft Server a Reality
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Minestom and Paper you can also consider the following projects:

DecompilerMC - This repository allows you to decompile any minecraft version that was published after 19w36a without any 3rd party mappings, you just need to execute the script or the executable (see releases)! Thanks mojang to have published proguard mappings

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

C2ME-fabric - A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.

Arclight - A Bukkit(1.19/1.20) server implementation on Forge using Mixin. ⚡ ⚡⚡⚡⚡

Mockneat - MockNeat - the modern faker lib.

fabric - Essential hooks for modding with Fabric.

Waterfall - BungeeCord fork that aims to improve performance and stability.

Starlight - Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Airplane - A stable, optimized, well supported 1.17.1 Paper fork.

Limbo - Standalone Limbo Minecraft Server (Currently 1.20.4)

Pufferfish - A high-performance fork of Paper designed for large servers.