fabric-carpet VS Starlight

Carpet Mod - Carpet Mod is a mod for vanilla Minecraft that allows you to take full control of what matters from a technical perspective of the game.

I would say out of those, Paper, mainly due to lack of toolchain complexity or unusual concepts like mixins. I'd say it's a great introduction to Java.

But other things you should also be looking into:

Skript provides an interesting easy-to-use DSL language for Paper/Spigot servers - https://github.com/SkriptLang/Skript

Scarpet provides an interesting easy-to-use DSL language for Fabric servers - https://github.com/gnembon/fabric-carpet/blob/master/docs/sc...

Opencomputers and Computercraft are mods that adds computers to Minecraft, running Lua. OpenGlasses2 lets you code your own augmented reality glasses in Minecraft, because why not? https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/opencomputers https://www.computercraft.info/

Minecraft Pi Edition was an ARM-only release of Minecraft Pocket Edition that is scriptable using TCP sockets, with APIs for various programming languages. Unfortunately, it was dead by the time it was finished, as it never got any updates after the initial release and doesn't have ARM64 support, and is a very limited version of the game https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/edition/pi

Minecraft Education edition has a Scratch-like programming system, but it's only available to teachers and is another thing they sorta dropped the ball on https://education.minecraft.net/en-us

Carpet: Moderation tools, such as tick manipulation. Also displays TPS on the tab list. (not updated)

I don't own an Apple M1, so I have no idea. You can try setting up a fabric server with carpet mod on your M1, and use the /log command to see the server mspt.

In my current world, I'm using some light mods to add things I think should be in vanilla - movable block entities, dispensers placing blocks, vanilla autocrafting, and renewable sand via anvils. This is all done with Carpet Mod, Carpet Extras, and the Vanilla Autocrafting extension. Because of this, I am doing a no duping challenge, so I need renewable sand somehow. So, using the mechanic of anvils crushing cobblestone into sand that was added in Carpet Extras, I made this contraption that produces about 25 stacks per hour (rough guess). Not terribly fast, but hey, it's renewable and it isn't duping, so I'm happy.

This GitHub page should have every info you'd need

You can spawn bots with Carpet Mod . You can also do a lot of other things with but you can read that on github. Just type /player Name(your name, or what ever) spawn. It will spawn a bot with the right skin for that player.

Carpet Mod (logging, fake players and more)

If you want to make a multi-hour test, you can try using CarpetMods tick warp feature. By using the command /tick warp 72000 for example, your game will run as fast as your PC can handle for 72000 ticks. If you are in a void world, this can let your game run at over 100x speed, letting you test your farms for "hours" in just a few minutes.

There was a bug in carpet mod, now it resolved in recent release: https://github.com/gnembon/fabric-carpet/releases/tag/1.4.92

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