Getting Started

Requirements

Paper requires Java 8 or newer to run. It should run fine on newer versions as well, such as Java 10, but certain plugins may have issues.

Migrating From Vanilla

Migrating from Vanilla is easy, but there are some differences, namely in world saves. Paper (and CraftBukkit and Spigot) seperate out each dimension of a world (nether, the end, etc) into separate world folders.

Paper will handle this conversion for you automatically.

Migrating From CraftBukkit/Spigot

Paper is a drop in replacement for both CraftBukkit and Spigot, you don’t need to make any changes.

Getting A Server Jar

Paper provides runnable server jars directly from our continuous integration server here.

Download one of the artifacts (either paperclip.jar or paperclip-####.jar, they are the same) and save it to a new directory somewhere on your file system.

Running The Server

To run the server, simply start it up like any other Java application.

Open your terminal, navigate to the saved location, and then run java -jar paperclip.jar

For more advanced Java tuning, see this page

To configure your server, see the Configuration page.

Updating The Server

To update the server, first stop it safely by executing the stop command and then replace the old paperclip jar with a new one. That’s it.