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Does your new server have the ability to support these old plugins at all? Doesn't look like it does.

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

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

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.

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

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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