Purpur VS Airplane

Compare Purpur vs Airplane and see what are their differences.

Purpur

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

Airplane

A stable, optimized, well supported 1.17.1 Paper fork. (by TECHNOVE)
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Purpur Airplane
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1,821 337
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9.3 0.0
7 days ago almost 2 years ago
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MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Purpur

Posts with mentions or reviews of Purpur. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.

Airplane

Posts with mentions or reviews of Airplane. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-02.
  • TPS on my server is low
    6 projects | /r/admincraft | 2 Nov 2021
    Try using this guide and also use a paper fork like purpur or airplane. You can also use these premade performance configs.
  • Ways to optimize a server without affecting the gameplay
    2 projects | /r/admincraft | 25 Oct 2021
  • Tips for starting an MC server?
    3 projects | /r/admincraft | 10 Oct 2021
    Use software like paper or airplane or purpur. All derivatives of each other. Paper is a fork of spigot with preformance improvements and bug patches. Airplane is a fork of paper with minor preformance improvements. Purpur is a upstream of Paper and airplane adding various customizations. Use aikar's flags. DO NOT use optimization plugins, they tend to only make things worse. Pre generate your map, but this has the downside of terrain being stuck through generation changes like 1.18.
  • Where can I get a server
    2 projects | /r/Minecraft | 9 Sep 2021
    What i would recommend doing is finding an old laptop or pc that isnt going to be used, and hook it up to ethernet. Then grab a server jar like Paper, and fire it up. Paper is going to be recommended in this case, since you are using not the best hardware. i run my servers off of old pcs (Intel Core i5-4950T @ 2GHz, 16GB DDR3 SDRAM, and 256GB SSD) use Airplane and haven't seen any lag so far. If that's not possible, then find a paid third party hoster like Pebblehost and use that instead
  • Is there anyway to make a big Minecraft server?
    4 projects | /r/Minecraft | 4 Sep 2021
    Look into different server software. Vanilla will start lagging when there are more than 10 players at a time. Use Airplane or Purpur in this case. Figure out what plugins you want and learn how to install and configure plugins
  • Should I switch to Paper?
    2 projects | /r/admincraft | 19 Aug 2021
    Just be sure to get airplane-purpur as it's way more performant than purpur. You can get it at https://airplane.gg -> Downloads -> Purpur. I use it for my small 2 GB server with 2 cores and its runs buttery smoother with 6 players and a render distance of 16
  • I have 4GB of RAM on my 2 player server yet it lags unbearably.
    3 projects | /r/Minecraft | 17 Aug 2021
    Actually try Paper instead of spigot. Paper is a fork of Spigot which focuses on high performance and bug fixes. And usually runs faster than Spigot. If you rlly need something to run faster than Paper, Tuinity or Airplane will work
  • Trying to setup server on a vm. Keep getting sever overloaded?
    3 projects | /r/Minecraft | 9 Aug 2021
    2.0ghz isn't a lot for minecraft servers. did you allocate more cores to your server? or used something like airplane? it's still in beta but it does it job, you could also use purpur and allocate more cores yourself doing this
  • Hello, we're Purpur
    3 projects | /r/admincraft | 27 Jul 2021
    TLDR: If you have a small Server use Purpur, If you have a larger one or plan to have many Players rather use Airplane: https://airplane.gg/
  • How to create Java server? Is it free? Does it have to be renewed or something?
    4 projects | /r/Minecraft | 15 Jul 2021
    It's completely free. The server software like Paper, Tuinity, Airplane, and Purpur are completely free and open source. There are tons of them out there, and most remain as open source projects. Excluding the hardware and electricity required to run it, the servers are completely free to host.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Purpur and Airplane you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

Tuinity - Minecraft server software fork of Paper to improve performance without behavioural changes.

quilt-serverside-mods - A list of server-side mods for the Quilt mod loader; including many Fabric mods (which are compatible with Quilt) and some Quilt-only mods.

Magma - Minecraft Forge Hybrid server implementing the Spigot/Bukkit API (Cauldron for 1.12)

Geyser - A bridge/proxy allowing you to connect to Minecraft: Java Edition servers with Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.

minecraft-optimization - Minecraft server optimization guide

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

Pl3xMap - Pl3xMap is a minimalistic and lightweight world map viewer for Paper servers using the vanilla Minecraft rendering style

Purplane - Purpur + Airplane = Purplane

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