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