PaperMC/Velocity

The modern, next-generation Minecraft server proxy.

Java

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2,383 commits

updated Oct 7, 2026

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Velocity

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A Minecraft server proxy with unparalleled server support, scalability, and flexibility.

Velocity is licensed under the GPLv3 license.

Goals

  • A codebase that is easy to dive into and consistently follows best practices for Java projects as much as reasonably possible.
  • High performance: handle thousands of players on one proxy.
  • A new, refreshing API built from the ground up to be flexible and powerful whilst avoiding design mistakes and suboptimal designs from other proxies.
  • First-class support for Paper, Sponge, Fabric and Forge. (Other implementations may work, but we make every endeavor to support these server implementations specifically.)

Building

Velocity is built with Gradle. We recommend using the wrapper script (./gradlew) as our CI builds using it.

It is sufficient to run ./gradlew build to run the full build cycle.

Running

Once you've built Velocity, you can copy and run the -all JAR from proxy/build/libs. Velocity will generate a default configuration file and you can configure it from there.

Alternatively, you can get the proxy JAR from the downloads page.

Localisation

Translations are handled using Crowdin. If you want to translate a language not available on Crowdin, you might want to ask in the Discord about it.

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PaperMC/Velocity

The modern, next-generation Minecraft server proxy.

Java

2,271

2,383 commits

updated Oct 7, 2026

See the code

README

Velocity

Build Status Join our Discord

A Minecraft server proxy with unparalleled server support, scalability, and flexibility.

Velocity is licensed under the GPLv3 license.

Goals

  • A codebase that is easy to dive into and consistently follows best practices for Java projects as much as reasonably possible.
  • High performance: handle thousands of players on one proxy.
  • A new, refreshing API built from the ground up to be flexible and powerful whilst avoiding design mistakes and suboptimal designs from other proxies.
  • First-class support for Paper, Sponge, Fabric and Forge. (Other implementations may work, but we make every endeavor to support these server implementations specifically.)

Building

Velocity is built with Gradle. We recommend using the wrapper script (./gradlew) as our CI builds using it.

It is sufficient to run ./gradlew build to run the full build cycle.

Running

Once you've built Velocity, you can copy and run the -all JAR from proxy/build/libs. Velocity will generate a default configuration file and you can configure it from there.

Alternatively, you can get the proxy JAR from the downloads page.

Localisation

Translations are handled using Crowdin. If you want to translate a language not available on Crowdin, you might want to ask in the Discord about it.

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java
minecraft
minecraft-forge
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server-proxy
velocity

Significant stargazers

Dan Buch

407 followers · starred Jul 2020

He-Pin(kerr)

959 followers · starred Mar 2026

Ashcon Partovi

315 followers · starred May 2019

flakey5

56 followers · starred Jun 2023