Minestom VS Starlight

- 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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Im experimenting with Minestom and I want to make some crazy stress tests (1k users).

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

Link to Starlight

From the docs

i can confirm what mrspinn has posted but I would use rubidium and not magnesium(both ports of sodium, just a different authors on the ports.), this works with magnesium/rubidium extras as well for things like a better zoom function(runs off the sodium base so both ports are fine). Then if you'd like shaders with this you can use oculus(port of iris), this works with optifine shader packs. Road runner is good for cleaning up a lot of the overhead in things like game physics, AI, block ticking, etc (port of lithium, don't know why this one didn't keep the chemical name). Starlight again is good at what it does, even to the point of being integrated into papermc(which is why it's on their github and not the spottedleaf's personal anymore), don't know if you've sent much time around plugin servers. I also then use Ferritecore this greatly helps bring down memory requirements of the pack(I can run on 4gb, given I have fairly fast memory).

There is a comparison between Starlight, Phosphor and Vanilla on Starlight's Github page

The Mods I would especially recommend for 1.16+ are FerriteCore, Magnesium OR Rubidium (these are incompatible with optifine, for shaders you can use rubidium with Oculus. I would recommend using Magnesium when possible) and Magnesium Extras, as well as Starlight (Starlight X Create if you are on 1.16.5 and are using create) and LazyDFU

And yes, it's safe to use Starlight. I haven't had any data loss, world corruption, etc. and it's a lot faster than Phosphor (At least according to these graphs)

It's just that. It's a free and open source optimization mod that aims to improve fps, and fixes other issues. Along with that, Sodium is free and open source (available on GitHub). By default, Sodium does not provide shader support, and shader support can be done with Iris (Iris is also open source and free as well). But if you want to optimize your fps even more, you can bring in Lithium and Starlight (Lithium targets overall optimization, like the AI and other stuff without breaking the game, and Starlight is a complete rewrite of the vanilla lighting engine to be even more faster and fixes so much stuff with the lighting engine). And you can tack on more mods, like FerriteCore, Enchaned Block Entities (EBE) in order to optimize other parts of the game

Starlight v1.0.0

Source? I can't find it for paper. the Github says it's only for fabric https://github.com/PaperMC/Starlight