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**Leaf** is a drop-in replacement for [Paper](https://papermc.io/) servers designed to remove some checks, customized and high-performance, built on top of [Gale](https://github.com/GaleMC/Gale) with optimizations and fixes from other forks.
## 🍃 Features
- **Fork of [Gale](https://github.com/GaleMC/Gale)** for better performance
- **Async** pathfinding, mob spawning and entity tracker
- **Various optimizations** blending from [other forks](https://github.com/Winds-Studio/Leaf#-credits)
- **Fully compatible** with Bukkit, Spigot and Paper plugins
- **Latest dependencies**, keeping all dependencies in the newest version
- **Allows all characters in usernames**, including Chinese and other characters
- **Ability to disable** useless console messages
- **Fixes** some Minecraft bugs
- **Allows** to connect the backend via a proxy server without enabling the bungeecord mode
- **Configurable UseItem distance** for anarchy servers
- **Mod Protocols** support
- **More customized** relying on features of [Purpur](https://github.com/PurpurMC/Purpur)
- Support for **Linear region file format**
- **Maintenance friendly**, integrating with [Sentry](https://sentry.io/welcome/) of [Pufferfish](https://github.com/pufferfish-gg/Pufferfish) to easy track all errors coming from your server in excruciating detail
- And more...
## 📈 bStats
[](https://bstats.org/plugin/server-implementation/Leaf)
## 📫 Contact
- Discord: [`https://discord.com/invite/gfgAwdSEuM`](https://discord.com/invite/gfgAwdSEuM)
- QQ Group: `715128273`
## 📫 Donation
If you love my work, feel free to donate :)
- afdian: https://afdian.com/a/Dreeam (For Chinese only)
## 📥 Download
You can find latest successful build in [GitHub Action](https://github.com/Winds-Studio/Leaf/actions) or [Releases](https://github.com/Winds-Studio/Leaf/releases)
**Please note Java >= 21 is required.**
## 📦 Building
Building a Paperclip JAR for distribution:
```bash
./gradlew applyPatches && ./gradlew createMojmapPaperclipJar
```
## 🧪 API
### Maven
```xml
leafmc
https://maven.nostal.ink/repository/maven-snapshots/
```
```xml
cn.dreeam.leaf
leaf-api
1.21.1-R0.1-SNAPSHOT
provided
```
### Gradle
```kotlin
repositories {
maven {
url = uri("https://maven.nostal.ink/repository/maven-snapshots/")
}
}
dependencies {
compileOnly("cn.dreeam.leaf:leaf-api:1.21.1-R0.1-SNAPSHOT")
}
java {
toolchain.languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(21))
}
```
## ⚖️ License
Paperweight files are licensed under MIT.
Patches are licensed under MIT, unless indicated differently in their header.
Binaries are licensed under GPL-3.0.
Also see [PaperMC/Paper](https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper) and [PaperMC/Paperweight](https://github.com/PaperMC/paperweight) for the license of some material used by this project.
## 📜 Credits
Thanks to these projects below. Leaf just mix some of their patches together.
If these excellent projects hadn't appeared, Leaf wouldn't have become great.
- [Gale](https://github.com/GaleMC/Gale)
- [Pufferfish](https://github.com/pufferfish-gg/Pufferfish)
- [Purpur](https://github.com/PurpurMC/Purpur)
-
🍴 Expand to see forks that Leaf takes patches from.
• KeYi (R.I.P.)
(Backup)
• KTP
• Mirai
• Petal
• Carpet Fixes
• Akarin
• Slice
• Parchment
• Leaves
• Kaiiju
• PandaSpigot
• Plazma
• SparklyPaper
• Polpot
• Matter
• Luminol
## 🔥 Special Thanks
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