PaperMC improves Minecraft’s ecosystem with fast, secure software and an expanding plugin API, providing quick releases and helpful support as the most widely used, performant, and stable software available.
Paper is a high performance fork of the Spigot Minecraft Server that aims to fix gameplay and mechanic inconsistencies as well as to improve performance. Paper contains numerous features, bug fixes, exploit preventions and major performance improvements not found in Spigot.