Paper

[fantahund]

Can you implement the paper API?

[IzzelAliz]

I don't know exactly how much plugin requires a paper api.
This is actually planned with very low priority.

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[fantahund]

We have a lot of plugins on our vanilla server that need the Paper API. :>

[IzzelAliz]

This is now considered in roadmap.

I'm busy schooling now, and if I have enough time I will work on it.

[Mike5357]

Paper support is definitely something I'd love to see supported by Arclight

[IzzelAliz]

I wonder if users prefer Paper API support or just performance and optimize.

Please react with ❤️ if API support and 🚀 if performance.

[Hi-Im-Ina]

Hello,
At the moment the Pixelmon mod community is preparing itself for a version bump to 1.16.5 and as such we've all been looking for ways to host our servers.
The consensus seems to be SpongeForge is less preferred due to the mostly dry ecosystem of plugins, Mohist is unstable but does come with Paper benefits unlike Arclight which despite being generally considered the best solution for those looking to jump to a Spigot hybrid has always been held back compared to the alternative due to the lack of Paper API and optimizations.
Arclight has a lot to gain in terms of community support by properly implementing Paper even if just bit by bit into itself.
Hopefully this incentivizes you to consider tackling both sides of the coin.

Thank you for all the work you do in the project!

[Rasgnarok]

PixelmonMod Community Manager here. A full, clean implementation of Paper is needed for Arclight to be production-ready. Servers with a large amount of players will require the support Paper provides in API and performance. We expect that with our move to 1.16.5, you'll be seeing a lot more pressure from the server community towards Arclight's performance in comparison to projects such as Mohist or even Sponge. Should you need to discuss this further, I'm on your discord, Rasgnarok#6969.

[Sm0keySa1m0n]

I think both are a good idea, performance is definitely a huge issue for large scale servers at the moment especially with chunk loading.

[IzzelAliz]

Per discussion in Discord.

I have the interest to have Paper in Arclight. However, Paper is rapidly changing and its API set is way larger than Spigot, and they make much more changes to this game.
Maintaining from both Spigot and Paper is too difficult for me, but if there is help from community it would be good.
Here are some stats: Spigot has roughly 40k line patches and Paper has 118k line patches. I can made an update between major versions in about 7 days for a 40k line project. The lines in Paper should be lesser as they sometimes include api codes in server patches.
Paper is a simple human resource problem to me, and if someone want to become a maintainer that is responsible for version upgrade, bugfix, optionally optimisations, doing paper stuff, etc please DM me.

[Maxsh001]

At least add the adventure API plz

[qyl27]

After Paper changes more of Spigot's behaviors, we might need to re-evaluate the priority of this issue and make a decision.
cc @IzzelAliz

[PukPukov]

Reducing paper api support is actually good thing because idiotic paper devs gives no shit to backwards compatibility. Less paper api support = less paper plugins = less pain.