Pufferfish
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Pufferfish, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Pufferfish's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated Server | $32 a month | 2 dedicated logical cores (9950x) · burst up to 4 cores · 8GB DDR5 memory · 100GB SSD storage · 2 extra server splits · $32.00/m |
The facts
Each one read from Pufferfish's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Asynchronous processing
- Pufferfish partially moves heavy work to other threads where possible while aiming to preserve stability.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Async processing
- It partially moves heavy work to other threads while aiming to preserve stability.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The project says it is designed for large servers seeking performance, stability, and enterprise features.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Downloads
- The downloads page lists server JAR builds for Minecraft versions 1.21.8, 1.20.4, 1.19.4, 1.18.2, and 1.17.1.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Entity performance
- The project says it improves entity performance by skipping unnecessary work and making changes it describes as barely noticeable.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Hosting support
- The project says Pufferfish Host provides tailored performance support to its customers.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Pufferfish integrates with Sentry to track server errors in detail.checked 7 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository says patches are licensed under GPL-3.0 and all other files under MIT.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Maintainer
- The GitHub organization identifies itself as Pufferfish Studios LLC and lists the United States of America as its location.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Map rendering
- The project describes map rendering as 8x faster and says it reduces or eliminates lag spikes from plugins such as ImageOnMap or ImageMaps.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Open source
- The downloads page describes Pufferfish as open source software and links to its GitHub repository.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Other optimizations
- The project lists faster hoppers, raytracing, crafting, entity and block ticking, and reduced chunk loading and garbage collection as optimizations.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Plugin compatibility
- The project says Pufferfish is completely compatible with plugins compatible with Paper.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Product
- Pufferfish is a high-performance fork of Paper designed for large Minecraft servers.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Profiler
- Pufferfish includes a profiler that the project describes as having no performance hit and providing readable metrics for server owners and developers.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- GitHub reports that the repository has no security policy detected and no published security advisories.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project says Pufferfish Host offers customers tailored performance support, and its site provides a Discord support channel.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Use case
- The maker recommends considering Pufferfish for servers seeking an optimal player experience and says it aims to keep gameplay as close to vanilla as possible.checked 7 Oct 2026
- What it is
- Pufferfish is an open source, high-performance fork of Paper designed for large Minecraft servers.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2021checked 28 Sep 2026
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