Minecraft Optimization Guide

This is a comprehensive Paper Minecraft server optimization guide covering configuration tuning for performance.

Key recommendations:

• Pre-generate the world map with Chunky/ChunkyBorder before launching your server.

• Don't go below simulation-distance 5, view-distance should be ≥ simulation-distance

• Villagers are uniquely resource-heavy and uncapped by spawn-limits. Use plugins like VillagerLobotomizer or population controls (Available in Purpur by default)

• Change redstone-implementation to ALTERNATE_CURRENT, this will optimize redstone implemenation.

Hardware/JVM guidance

CPU single-core performance matters more than RAM (10GB usually sufficient); MSPT (not TPS) is the real performance metric; modern JVM (21+) handles GC well by default, Aikar's flags or Generational ZGC are optional.

Things to avoid

Mob-stacker plugins, "lag-fix" plugins like ClearLagg/ETF, allowing spawner relocation, datapacks with repeating functions, plugins from untrusted sources, auto-updating Paper builds, anti-Fabric plugins, disabling chat reporting, and over-reliance on anti-cheat plugins.

Helpful Links

• https://paper-chan.moe/paper-optimization/

• https://github.com/MeowIce/meowice-flags