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Pumpkin is a high-performance Minecraft server built entirely in Rust, focusing on speed, security, and extensibility.

Empowering everyone to host fast and efficient Minecraft servers.
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Pumpkin-MC/Pumpkin

Source: https://github.com/Pumpkin-MC/Pumpkin

Pumpkin

CI Discord License: GPL

Pumpkin is a Minecraft server built entirely in Rust, offering a fast, efficient, and customizable experience. It prioritizes performance and player enjoyment while adhering to the core mechanics of the game.

Pumpkin Chunk Loading

Goals

  • Performance: Leveraging multi-threading for maximum speed and efficiency.
  • Compatibility: Supports the latest Java & Bedrock Minecraft server version while adhering to Vanilla game mechanics.
  • Security: Prioritizes security by preventing known security exploits.
  • Flexibility: Highly configurable, with the ability to disable unnecessary features.
  • Extensibility: Provides a foundation for plugin development.

Pumpkin is currently under heavy development.

See what needs to be done before the 1.0.0 Release

Features

  • Configuration (toml)
  • Tracking: Protocol
    • Server Status/Ping
    • Encryption
    • Packet Compression
    • Java Edition
    • Bedrock Edition (W.I.P)
    • …
  • Tracking: World
    • Player Tab-list
    • Scoreboard
    • World Loading
    • World Time
    • World Borders
    • World Saving
    • Lighting
    • Entity Spawning
    • Bossbar
    • Chunk Loading (Vanilla, Linear, Pump)
    • Chunk Generation
    • Chunk Saving (Vanilla, Linear, Pump)
    • Redstone
    • Liquid Physics
    • …
  • Tracking: Player
    • Skins
    • Teleport
    • Movement
    • Animation
    • Inventory
    • Combat
    • Experience
    • Hunger
    • Off Hand
    • Advancements (W.I.P)
    • Eating
    • …
  • Entities
    • Non-Living (Minecart, Eggs…) (W.I.P)
    • Entity Effects
    • Players
    • Mobs (W.I.P)
    • Animals (W.I.P)
    • Entity AI
    • Boss (W.I.P)
    • Villagers (W.I.P)
    • Entity Saving
  • Server
    • Plugins
    • Query
    • RCON
    • Inventories
    • Particles
    • Chat
    • Commands
    • Permissions
    • Translations
  • Proxy
    • Bungeecord
    • Velocity

How to run

See our Quick Start guide to get Pumpkin running.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md

Docs

Pumpkin’s documentation can be found at https://pumpkinmc.org/

Communication

Consider joining our Discord server to stay up-to-date on events, updates, and connect with other members.

Funding

If you want to fund me and help the project, check out my GitHub sponsors.

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