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Spec sheet
- Product
- Pufferfish is a high-performance fork of Paper designed for large Minecraft servers.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Audience
- The project says it is designed for large servers seeking performance, stability, and enterprise features.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Security
- GitHub reports that the repository has no security policy detected and no published security advisories.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Support
- The project says Pufferfish Host offers customers tailored performance support, and its site provides a Discord support channel.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- License
- The repository says patches are licensed under GPL-3.0 and all other files under MIT.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Founded
- 2021Read 28 Sep 2026 · github.com
- Async processing
- It partially moves heavy work to other threads while aiming to preserve stability.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Asynchronous processing
- Pufferfish partially moves heavy work to other threads where possible while aiming to preserve stability.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Downloads
- The downloads page lists server JAR builds for Minecraft versions 1.21.8, 1.20.4, 1.19.4, 1.18.2, and 1.17.1.Read 7 Oct 2026 · pufferfish.host
- Entity performance
- The project says it improves entity performance by skipping unnecessary work and making changes it describes as barely noticeable.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Hosting support
- The project says Pufferfish Host provides tailored performance support to its customers.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Integration
- Pufferfish integrates with Sentry to track server errors in detail.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Maintainer
- The GitHub organization identifies itself as Pufferfish Studios LLC and lists the United States of America as its location.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Map rendering
- The project describes map rendering as 8x faster and says it reduces or eliminates lag spikes from plugins such as ImageOnMap or ImageMaps.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Open source
- The downloads page describes Pufferfish as open source software and links to its GitHub repository.Read 7 Oct 2026 · pufferfish.host
- Other optimizations
- The project lists faster hoppers, raytracing, crafting, entity and block ticking, and reduced chunk loading and garbage collection as optimizations.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Plugin compatibility
- The project says Pufferfish is completely compatible with plugins compatible with Paper.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Profiler
- Pufferfish includes a profiler that the project describes as having no performance hit and providing readable metrics for server owners and developers.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Use case
- The maker recommends considering Pufferfish for servers seeking an optimal player experience and says it aims to keep gameplay as close to vanilla as possible.Read 7 Oct 2026 · pufferfish.host
- What it is
- Pufferfish is an open source, high-performance fork of Paper designed for large Minecraft servers.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com
Plans and prices
Dedicated Server $32 a month $32.00/m 2 dedicated logical cores (9950x) · burst up to 4 cores · 8GB DDR5 memory · 100GB SSD storage · 2 extra server splits Read 7 Oct 2026 · pufferfish.host
Where Specifiction places it
- Minecraft Server Software#16 of 257.5
