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Re:Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server... by ungzd on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:49AM (#15071812)
Extensibility. Official server still doesn't have plugin API and it is closed-source so it can't be modified. Almost everyone uses spigot/bukkit/sponge because vanilla server lacks many features, but these are dirty hacks based on disassembly.
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Re:Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server... by Angostura on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:14AM (#15072019)
Does your new server have the ability to support these old plugins at all? Doesn't look like it does.
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Re:Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server... by bearbin on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:57AM (#15072421)
The server doesn't support java plugins for bukkit/spigot. Because none of the internals are shared any interface layer would be needlessly complex and a drag on maintenance.

The lua plugin system is well-developed and documented [1] so most plugins could be changed over easily.

[1]: https://api.cuberite.org

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Re:Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server... by NiLSPACE on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:15AM (#15072594)
Some popular plugins are already ported over like

- WorldEdit: https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-870.html

- Essentials: https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-1840.html

But also minigames like

- SkyBlock: https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-1508.html

- HungerGames: https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-1456.html

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Re:Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server... by zeveb on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:07PM (#15074350)
Yeah, but that doesn't help with _client_ side mods, which are still stuck with the old client internals.

At that point, why not just switch over to Minetest? Given enough work, it could eventually be an attractive and feature-complete clone — and be nicely extensible too.

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Re:Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server... by sphinxc0re on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:27AM (#15096814)
Currently there is a PR on GitHub to implement the Forge handshake protocol and the server side mod API of Forge. That means sooner or later you might be able to write Forge backends for your client-side mods
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Re:Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server... by imtringued on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:23PM (#15076518)
I'd say it could easily be better even if the only reason is that it's not going to break mods on every release.
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