Magma VS Purpur

Will it work if I host a magma server and try to connect with normal forge? And if so how do I know the correct forge version for the client?

Edit: Server is running Magma for plugin flexibility.

If you want to run Bukkit plugins with Forge, there's a few options. Mhoist, Magma and Arclight all achieve the same goal of running Bukkit plugins with Forge. Mhoist and Magma have both existed longer than Arclight, however Arclight uses mixins, which can improve compatibility.

use magma if you want to play mods and have plugins

use magma https://github.com/magmafoundation/Magma

Note2: Magma also works (again it's very unstable) https://magmafoundation.org/

Looking in to MagmaFoundation but it out of date. May be a viable option if I instead run client and server 1.18.

Instead of fully switching to MOD server, you could try using Magma, Sponge, or Mohist, if you have any further questions, feel free to reply to this message or DM me.

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.

I Mostly Like Linux as a OS For a Server and PurpurMC (https://purpurmc.org) As a Server Software and i Mostly Use EssentialsX and WorldEdit and More Server Management Stuff.

If you prefer to go the old-school Bukkit/Spigot/Paper/Purpur route (which provides the greatest level of compatibility with pre-existing server plugins), I recommend the latter of the four. Each of these projects is a fork, built on each other in that same order. Each fork offers additional customisation, API, and performance enhancements over its predecessor.

I’d recommend Paper (which is a fork of spigot) or Purpur which is a fork of paper and pufferfish

If you're looking to re-add gravity duping I would recommend not using a plugin but switching your server software to PurpurMC. It is a fork/version of PaperMC that re-adds gravity duping as a config option as well as the ability to toggle back on things like tnt duping and several other features that the PaperMC devs arbitrarily decided were bugs (even though Mojang has explicitly not removed them).

Small addendum:\ If you want to keep using a paper derivative (as a drop-in replacement), you can use purpurMC instead. It provides a config option to enable gravity block duping by disabling sand.fix-duping. (At least for sand)

You can host a small purpur server

Have you tried re-downloading the latest purpur jar file from the purpur website?

tweak some configuration, try lower your entities spawn, I at last you might want to try PurPurMC for the server, it's paper fork with some modification, I feel a lot of improvement since using this fork...