A higher-performance Paper fork without behavioral changes
Gale is a drop-in alternative for Paper that provides higher performance without any behavioral changes. Just swap your server jar and you're done.
- Faster than Paper, on every server
- Zero behavioral changes – all your plugins work exactly as before
- Stable and carefully reviewed, no risky experiments
Gale contains dozens of performance improvements, including SIMD-accelerated operations, virtual thread usage, and extensive caching.
- Download the latest
.jar - Point to it in your start script – replace
paper-<version>.jarwithgale-<version>.jar
That's it. No configuration changes needed.
Building from source:
./gradlew applyAllPatches
./gradlew :gale-server:createPaperclipJar
Pull requests are welcome! See the contributing guidelines.
Built on Paper, Spigot and Bukkit.
If you want features or optimizations that change behavior, check out Leaf.
