Paper must either add wrappers around the new systems for existing plugins to keep working (resulting in worse performance), or make major changes to how the game is implemented (resulting in the aforementioned mechanical differences). Even just since 1.12, world generation, world storage, chunk loading, commands, block updates, and lighting have all been fully rewritten. Much of the game has been rewritten since the Bukkit API was developed. This is extremely convenient for plugin devs, as they don't have to actively update their plugins, but in my opinion ultimately bad for server owners. The main draw of Bukkit plugins (for devs, at least) is that the API almost never changes. It was still experimental at the time I originally wrote this, but is now stable enough to use. Phosphor, also by JellySquid, optimizes the lighting engine, which greatly speeds up chunk loading.ĮDIT: Starlight is a light engine replacement which is even faster than Phosphor and about 35 times faster than vanilla's. The two devs behind it, JellySquid and 2No2Name, are literally geniuses. Lithium can reduce tick times by 45% (about on par with Paper), but without making any changes to gameplay. Many of the Fabric contributors, and most developers of server-side Fabric mods, are expert redstoners for whom consistency with vanilla is a priority.Īlthough Fabric itself does not apply any optimizations to the game, there are several Fabric mods that apply optimizations to the game, including Lithium, Phosphor, and Carpetmod. Even if it did, unlike in Paper, that would most likely be considered a bug and fixed quickly. The Fabric API, a library most Fabric mods depend on, doesn't change vanilla mechanics, either. This can be extremely frustrating when you discover that something you designed and tested in creative mode doesn't work after you've spent hours building it in survival.įabric, on the other hand, is a "pure" modloader - with no mods installed, there's no way to tell whether a server uses Fabric or vanilla using in-game mechanics. The main issue with these mechanical differences is that the only way for you to know how a particular device will behave is to either build it on the actual server, or to run your own Paper server, with the same configuration as the real deal, to test things on. There are many other mechanical differences between vanilla and Paper, ranging from minor changes requiring redstone builds to be slightly tweaked to massive differences that make some builds like ender stasis chambers impossible. This made it basically impossible to make a TNT blast chamber, a necessary component of many advanced farms. For example, until commandblockguy submitted a PR fixing it, in Paper, blocks moved by a piston were completely indestructible by TNT unless you turned off the option which prevented bedrock breaking exploits. Many of these are useful, like dupe prevention, but others affect the behavior of vanilla mechanics for seemingly no reason. Paper applies a large number of "fixes" by default. In our (commandblockguy and _iPhoenix_, who helped write this post) opinion, Fabric is a better option for Cemetech’s Minecraft server than PaperMC, the modloader we’re currently using. Although it can’t load Bukkit plugins, it has its own collection of equivalent server-side mods. Fabric is a modloader for Minecraft, similar to CraftBukkit or Forge.
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