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Top 23 Java Paper Projects
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Paper
The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies
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Purpur
Purpur is a drop-in replacement for Paper servers designed for configurability, and new fun and exciting gameplay features.
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Paper
Paper is a fast NoSQL-like storage for Java/Kotlin objects on Android with automatic schema migration support. (by pilgr)
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Grim
Fully async, multithreaded, predictive, open source, 3.01 reach, 1.005 timer, 0.01% speed, 99.99% antikb, "bypassable" 1.8-1.21 minecraft anticheat.
Project mention: 1024000^2 Blocks, 2b2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-18People have also tried to create merge requests into my plugin to reintroduce the issue into 2B2T.
https://github.com/GrimAnticheat/Grim/pull/1131
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Slimefun4
Slimefun 4 - A unique Spigot/Paper plugin that looks and feels like a modpack. We've been giving you backpacks, jetpacks, reactors and much more since 2013.
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ServerListPlus
A flexible Minecraft plugin to customize the appearance of your server in the server list
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Insights
Insights - Super configurable (region) Limits + Asynchronous Scans [1.21] (by InsightsPlugin)
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TradeSystem
A highly customizable, free and open-source Minecraft plugin for trading between players.
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fastasyncvoxelsniper
Voxel Sniper fork for modern Minecraft versions utilizing the improvements of FastAsyncWorldEdit
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Paper projects in Java? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Paper | 12,354 |
| 2 | Purpur | 2,372 |
| 3 | Paper | 2,349 |
| 4 | Essentials | 2,256 |
| 5 | Grim | 1,632 |
| 6 | ViaVersion | 1,566 |
| 7 | cardboard | 1,167 |
| 8 | Slimefun4 | 1,113 |
| 9 | PlotSquared | 646 |
| 10 | Akarin | 535 |
| 11 | AnarchyExploitFixes | 422 |
| 12 | vane | 384 |
| 13 | ServerListPlus | 244 |
| 14 | grakkit | 230 |
| 15 | HuskHomes | 167 |
| 16 | Insights | 152 |
| 17 | Movecraft | 136 |
| 18 | WeaponMechanics | 109 |
| 19 | TradeSystem | 105 |
| 20 | minie | 98 |
| 21 | fastasyncvoxelsniper | 83 |
| 22 | MapEngine | 82 |
| 23 | Hyperverse | 63 |
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