Velocity/README.md

# Velocity

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

Velocity is licensed under the MIT license for ultimate permissiveness
and expanding the pool of potential contributors and users.

## 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, and Forge. (Other implementations
  may work, but we make every endeavor to support these server implementations
  specifically.)
  
## Building

Velocity is built with [Gradle](https://gradle.org). 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](https://www.velocitypowered.com/downloads)
page.

## Status

Velocity is currently in an alpha state: it is prone to change at any time and
is currently only suitable for small servers and development/testing.

Velocity supports Minecraft 1.8-1.13.2. Velocity is best supported with Paper
and SpongeVanilla. Minecraft Forge is fully supported but mod compatibility
may vary. Generally, Velocity will support many mods better than BungeeCord
or Waterfall do but compatibility can not always be ensured.