Beast

A Paper 1.12.2 fork aims to provide extreme performance, bug fixes, and improvements.

This project is based on Reaper 1.12.2

Features

• Beast is a fork of Paper-1.12.2 designed for performance, new fun and exciting gameplay features.
• Contains Lithium patches that optimizing many areas in game.
• Bug fixes for several Minecraft issues.
• Backports bug fixes of Mojang.
• Plugin compatibility with Spigot & Paper plugins.
• Completely removed Timings to save your server performance.
• Various optimizations for vanilla methods.
• Brings back some vanilla features.
• More events make your server more fun.
• Support Virtual Threads which is introduced in Java 21
• Pause server when no players online(configurable)
• Configurable 1.8 old combat method

Java >= 8 is required, Java >= 21 is recommended.

How To (Server Admins)

Beast uses the same paperclip jar system that Paper uses.

You can download the latest release of Beast by going here but I highly recommend to use the latest dev build.

How To (Plugin Developers)

Maven repository:

<repository>
    <id>github-homomc-beast</id>
    <name>GitHub Apache Maven Packages</name>
    <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/HomoMC/Beast</url>
</repository>

Beast-API maven dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.homomc.beast</groupId>
    <artifactId>beast-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.12.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Beast-Server maven dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.homomc.beast</groupId>
    <artifactId>beast</artifactId>
    <version>1.12.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Great thanks to these projects:

• Reaper (which is the base of Beast)
• Leaf
• Polpot
• Randar Explanation