MeowMC

Developer

For plugin authors who already know Bukkit or Paper: almost nothing changes, and the parts that change change in your favor.

MeowMC is a Paper 26.3 fork whose API is a strict superset of Paper's. The compatible surface — every org.bukkit, org.spigotmc, io.papermc.paper and com.destroystokyo.paper namespace — is byte-identical to Paper 26.3. What the fork adds is one interface (ClientVersion) and one method on Player. That is the entire additive linkable surface.

  • Project setup — JDK 25, and which artifact to compile against.
  • Compatibility — will my plugin run? Four tiered answers.
  • The MeowMC API — what you get that Paper does not give you, and an explicit list of what does not exist.
  • Plugin descriptors — api-version and the one rewriting difference.
  • Scheduling — the serial truth of this build, in code samples that compile against the API.

The reference docs for every symbol are the javadoc pages at /api/, which ship with the build.