How to Install Paper on Your Minecraft Server | Iceline Hosting Knowledge Base

What is Paper?

Paper is a highly optimized fork of the Spigot server version. This server version aims to fix gameplay mechanics in Minecraft along with improving performance. One of the benefits of this version is that it fixes numerous features and bugs that are in Spigot. When trying to fully optimize your Minecraft server, Paper is the recommended version. The PaperMC project has worked countless hours to ensure that your Minecraft server can run as smoothly as possible. Plugins from both Spigot and Bukkit will work with Paper as well. If you are looking to start an MC server hosting server that has plugins, we recommend Paper above all other versions. In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install Paper onto your MC server hosting server.

How to Install Paper

Head to your Iceline Game Panel and stop your Minecraft server.
In your top navigation bar, locate “Settings”.
Locate the "Game Version" box and click on "Change Version".
Select the Paper version you want to use.
A box will appear informing you that this will require a reinstall, click "Change Version" when you're ready to proceed.
Wait for the installation to finish.
Go back to the console and start your server.

Installing Paper on your Minecraft Server through Iceline AI

The Iceline AI is a powerful tool included with our game servers that you can use to manage your server. Through a simple conversation, you can ask the AI to make any change for you!

To install Paper on your server, just ask the AI to do it for you! The AI will check the available versions and ask for confirmation, as simple as that!

And that's it! You will be able to use plugins on your server now without any problems! For this, you can use the plugin installer from the game panel or you can install the plugins manually to your server, feel free to read this guide to learn how to do it!

Facing Any Issues?

The things you should check for if the server is still not working is that you have renamed the file correctly to server.jar. If you are sure you have, you may need to re-upload the file to ensure it was uploaded fully. If you check these and are still having issues, feel free to contact our support team at Iceline Hosting!

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