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Winds-Studio/Leaf

Javaleafmc.one

A Paper fork focused on finding the balance between performance, vanilla mechanics, and stability

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Leaf

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Leaf is a Paper fork designed to be customizable and high-performance.

[!WARNING] Leaf is a performance-oriented fork. Make sure to take backups before switching to it. Everyone is welcome to contribute optimizations or report issues to help us improve.

English | 中文

🍃 Features

  • Based on Paper for generic performance and flexible API
  • Async pathfinding, mob spawning and entity tracker
  • Various optimizations blending from other forks and our own
  • Fully compatible with Spigot and Paper plugins
  • Latest dependencies, keeping all dependencies up-to-date
  • Allows all characters in usernames, including Chinese and other characters
  • Fixes some Minecraft bugs
  • Mod Protocols support
  • More customized relying on features of Purpur
  • Linear region file format, to save disk space
  • Maintenance friendly, integrating with Sentry of Pufferfish to easily track all errors coming from your server in extreme detail
  • And more...

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📫 Contact

📫 Donation

If you love our work, feel free to donate via our Open Collective or Dreeam's AFDIAN :)

📥 Download

Download Leaf from our Website or get latest build in GitHub Releases

📄 Documentation

Documentation about how to use/configure Leaf: Leaf Docs

📦 Building

Building a Paperclip JAR for distribution:

./gradlew applyAllPatches && ./gradlew createPaperclipJar

📦 API

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Gradle

repositories {
  maven {
    url = uri("https://maven.leafmc.one/snapshots/")
  }
}

dependencies {
    compileOnly("cn.dreeam.leaf:leaf-api:26.2.local-SNAPSHOT")
}

java {
  toolchain.languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(25))
}

Maven

<repository>
    <id>leafmc</id>
    <url>https://maven.leafmc.one/snapshots/</url>
</repository>
<dependency>
    <groupId>cn.dreeam.leaf</groupId>
    <artifactId>leaf-api</artifactId>
    <version>26.2.local-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

⚖️ License

Leaf is licensed under various open source licenses from its upstream projects. See LICENSE.md for full details.

📜 Credits

Thanks to these projects below. Leaf includes some patches taken from them.
If these excellent projects hadn't existed, Leaf wouldn't have become great.

🔥 Special Thanks

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