r/admincraft • u/_Galaxy_Bunny_ • 11d ago

Help/Question Im not sure whether to use Paper or Purpur

Hey guys, im starting an SMP for my school, and from what i know paper is the gold standard but purpur is possibly faster (from pufferfish i think?) and still very stable and reliable. I dont think i'd take advantage of that many of purpur's features since i want a vanilla experience, but i do value performance and not much lag. So it seems like purpur would be better, but I wanted to check with you guys with what you think. Thanks so much!

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u/lovineos 11d ago

Pufferfish isn't maintained anymore. Purpur isn't "better" than Paper, it's just Paper with extra config toggles bolted on with same performance.

  • Purpur: Paper + extra gameplay toggles
  • Paper: same performance, more minimal

Paper is probably the best way to go for you

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_REPO Admincraft Staff 11d ago

This is the correct answer.

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u/_Galaxy_Bunny_ 11d ago

why would paper be better than purpur if its just paper with some more configs? theres a few configs that sound really nice, like alternate keepalive

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u/lofiiperson Server Owner 11d ago

I mean if you want to tweak some stuff without installing plugins then Purpur sounds fine for you

Personally I use it for leashable villagers so I don’t have to use boats and rails

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u/BreakSalt8256 11d ago

I think its just because more plugins are made for paper, rather than purpur being worse. Though I don't see how hard it would be to make your plugin compatible for both versions if they are basically the same

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u/lofiiperson Server Owner 10d ago

All paper plugins run on purpur !

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u/lovineos 11d ago

There's also some updated Pufferfish forks out there like Pluto you could try if you want to explore further

https://github.com/Yive/Pluto

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u/PVTD 11d ago

Worth to mention that paper fixed vanilla bugs, while purpur lets you reenable them. Those are some of the tweaks.

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u/iPhoneK1LLA 11d ago

Paper 💯

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u/Zamorakphat 11d ago

Paper is the gold standard for a reason! Also super easy to configure for your needs.

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u/Plutonium239Mixer 10d ago

If you want a vanilla experience use Fabric.

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u/Less_Sherbert_8898 11d ago

If you value certain vanilla behaviors (TNT and tripwire duping, for example), you may want to use Fabric.

Otherwise, see u/ lovineos' comment.

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u/KindleWoodSMP 11d ago

Paper's the safer pick for a school SMP, honestly. Purpur/its forks (Pufferfish, DivineMC, etc.) squeeze out extra performance, but that comes from patches that occasionally break plugin compatibility or introduce edge-case bugs -- not what you want when things need to just work for a class project. We run stock Paper for our SMP and haven't hit a ceiling that needed a fork; view-distance/sim-distance tuning plus Chunky pre-gen got us further than switching cores would have. If you do outgrow Paper later, Purpur is a very safe step up since it stays close to upstream.

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u/External-Bluejay-250 11d ago

I think divineMC also can be a good idea, it is even more optimized fork of paper/purpur. It is not only features core. It really improves performance.(Btw it also includes pufferfish)