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 Sakura
 ===========
-This is a fork of Paper to optimise cannoning intended for cannon and factions servers on modern versions.
+This is a fork of Paper to optimise cannoning and provide essential features for testing and faction servers.
 
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+There are branches from the latest version to 1.19.4. If you need a 1.8.8 server jar check out the project Sakura was based on [Blossom](https://github.com/Samsuik/Blossom).
 
-Initially this repository will be publicised with just some cannon optimisations. 
-Later updates will bring feature parity with [Blossom](https://github.com/Samsuik/Blossom) and the private Sakura builds is planned.
+## There are compiled binaries on the releases page
 
+> https://github.com/Samsuik/Sakura/releases
+
+## Requirements (Source, Compiling)
+
+### Windows (you need [Git Bash](https://git-scm.com/download/win) and a JDK)
+> You can use command prompt on if Git is installed, make sure you to not include the `./` at the start of the gradlew commands.
+>
+> You may also have trouble with the file path length limit, there is a registry tweak you can make to remove this limitation.
+> - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation
+
+### Linux (git and a JDK)
+> ...
+
+## Obtaining the source code
+> ```
+> git clone https://github.com/Samsuik/Sakura
+> ```
+> Navigate to the locally cloned sakura repository
+> ```
+> cd Sakura
+> ```
+> You can use `git checkout ...` to choose between branches.
+> ```
+> git checkout 1.20.6
+> ```
+> To get the source code you can view, make changes etc.
+> ```
+> ./gradlew applyPatches
+> ```
+
+## Building the project
+> ### 1.20.4 and earlier
+> ```
+> ./gradlew createReobfPaperclipJar
+> ```
+> ### 1.20.6 and later
+> ```
+> ./gradlew createMojmapPaperclipJar
+> ```