Is there anyway to make a big Minecraft server?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/Minecraft

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  • Waterfall

    BungeeCord fork that aims to improve performance and stability.

  • Look into hosting it. If you have extremely good hardware, do self hosting. Or if you don't and rather want to pay, use third party hosting sites. nitrado or g-portal can handle the loads most likely. You will also want to spilt the servers into multiple servers, and hook them up using BungeeCord/Waterfall or Velocity

  • Purpur

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

  • 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

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  • Geyser

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

  • Use the Geyser plugin in order to allow for bedrock support

  • Airplane

    A stable, optimized, well supported 1.17.1 Paper fork.

  • 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

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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