Pumpkin
SHA-256A Minecraft server built entirely in Rust, focused on speed, efficiency, and vanilla-faithful gameplay with Java and Bedrock support.
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A blazing-fast Minecraft server written in Rust, supporting Java and Bedrock players with vanilla-faithful mechanics.
Core Features
- Multi-threaded architecture delivers faster chunk loading than the official server
- Supports the latest Java Edition, with Bedrock crossplay in progress
- Simple TOML configuration with toggleable features
- Works with BungeeCord, BungeeGuard, and Velocity proxies
- Hardened against known security exploits
What It Can't Do
- •Pumpkin is under heavy development and has not reached 1.0: combat, redstone, chunk generation, and commands are still incomplete, so it is not recommended for long-running production servers. Existing Bukkit, Spigot, and Paper plugins do not work with it, and its own plugin ecosystem is only beginning to form. Bedrock support is also a work in progress. If you need a stable, fully playable server today, Paper remains the safer choice.
Use Cases
- Hosting a vanilla survival server with lower RAM and CPU usage
- Performance-critical large multiplayer worlds on multi-core hardware
- Developers building custom server-side game logic in Rust
- Mixed servers for both Java and Bedrock players
Pumpkin is an open-source Minecraft server written entirely in Rust, engineered for speed and efficiency. By leveraging multi-threading, it handles chunk loading, entity ticking, and world saving significantly faster than Mojang's official single-threaded Java server, while using less memory. It stays faithful to vanilla game mechanics and supports the latest Java Edition, with Bedrock Edition crossplay in progress. Compared to Paper, the most popular performance-focused server, Pumpkin trades plugin ecosystem maturity for raw performance and a memory-safe codebase, making it attractive for performance-focused hosts and tinkerers. Configuration uses simple TOML files, unnecessary features can be disabled, and it integrates with BungeeCord, BungeeGuard, and Velocity proxies. The plugin API is dual-licensed MIT/Apache-2.0 to encourage third-party development. Note that Pumpkin is under heavy development: combat, redstone, and chunk generation remain works in progress.
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Install the appropriate package for your distro (dpkg / rpm / AppImage)
Download the latest executable for your operating system from the GitHub Releases page
Place it in an empty folder and run it once to generate the configuration and world files
Edit configuration.toml to adjust the port, game mode, and other options
- Download the latest executable for your operating system from the GitHub Releases page
- Place it in an empty folder and run it once to generate the configuration and world files
- Edit configuration.toml to adjust the port, game mode, and other options
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Pumpkin is fully portable. Simply delete its entire folder to uninstall, and no files will remain elsewhere on your system. Back up the world save folder first if you want to keep your progress.
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