choosing a sewwar shoftware
There are two types of sewwer shoftware in QSM. Pwoxies and Game sewwers.
Game sewwers
Section titled “Game sewwers”Game sewwers are de core sewwer shoftware dat hosts de game world, manage pwayer data, and moar
Game sewwers can shupport datapacks, mods, and/or plugins.
Mods (Which comes fwom “Modifying”) are uwusually modifications that modify de core game and require both client and sewwer to have de mods inshtalled. But some mods does not follow this condition, as some mods are client-side/server-side only. Some examples include:
- De Create Mod - Add new bwocks and mechanics, Requires that both client and sewwer have dis mod inshtalled.
- Sodium - Dis mod is client-side only, because this mod modifies the game’s wendewing, and the sewwer does not have to do any wendewing in the first pwace.
- Xaero’s Minimap - Dis mod is client-side and can be used with sewwers dat do not have dis mod installed, but installing dis mod on de sewwer can help make mod on de client side work good, but dat will also mean the client is now required to have this mod.
Pwugins can shimply be called server-side only mods, Dey can modify de core game, but not to an extent dat mods can do. Dey usually add commands and utilities to de game, but not add new bwocks or dwastically modify the game’s mechanics. But sewwers with pwugins do not wequire that the client install anything, So it is easy for the user to just launch up deir vanilla client and join.
Paper is a popular Minecraft server software based on Spigot, designed to greatly improve performance and offer more advanced features and API.
Performance is a reason why Paper is the default choice. Even if you don’t use plugins, Paper is still a great choice.
You can read Paper’s documentation here
Purpur
Section titled “Purpur”Purpur is a fork of Paper, Meaning that Purpur is based on Paper. Purpur is a drop-in replacement for Paper servers that’s designed for configurability, and new fun and exciting gameplay features. (That’s what they said)
You can read Purpur’s documentation here
Vanilla
Section titled “Vanilla”Vanilla servers simply mean the official Minecraft server software.
You can read a Minecraft wiki page covering about setting up a Minecraft server here. But not all of the instructions within that page will apply to QSM.
Fabric
Section titled “Fabric”Fabric is a Minecraft mod loader that is modular and lightweight.
When creating a Fabric server in QSM, QSM will always choose the latest available installer version.
You can read Fabric’s documentation here
Forge is a widely-used modding API. You can read Forge’s documentation here
NeoForge
Section titled “NeoForge”NeoForge is a free, open-source, community-oriented modding API.
You can read NeoForge’s documentation about how to create a mod here
Proxies
Section titled “Proxies”Proxies are software that reroute the Minecraft game to a different server. These are for server setups with multiple sub-servers.
Velocity
Section titled “Velocity”Velocity is a modern, high-performance proxy software from the PaperMC team. Designed with performance and stability in mind, it’s a full alternative to Waterfall/BungeeCord with its own plugin ecosystem.
You can read Velocity’s documentation here