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.

1. Download the latest .jar
2. Point to it in your start script – replace paper-<version>.jar with gale-<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.