Do normal Bukkit or Paper plugins work on Folia?

Mostly no. Plugins must be explicitly updated and marked Folia-supported to load — check each plugin before migrating.

When should I use Folia instead of Paper?

When one world needs hundreds of players and you have a many-core CPU. Otherwise Paper, Purpur, or Leaf are the better choice.

Is Folia an official PaperMC project?

Yes — developed by the PaperMC team alongside Paper and Velocity.

Download Folia Server JAR

PaperMC's regionized multithreading fork — one server, many CPU cores.

Folia

PerformanceOfficial Source

An experimental fork of Paper from the PaperMC team that uses regionized multithreading to split the world into independent regions, allowing servers to scale across many CPU cores.

MultithreadedRegionizedExperimental

Folia is PaperMC's official multithreading fork: the world is split into regions that tick in parallel across CPU cores, letting one server handle player counts that normally need a whole network. Note that plugins must be explicitly built for Folia — standard Bukkit plugins won't load.

Quick setup

Download the Folia JAR into an empty folder.
Install Java 21+.
Run the command below — give it as many cores as you can.
Set eula=true in eula.txt, then start again.
Only install plugins that declare Folia support.

java -Xms8G -Xmx8G -jar folia.jar nogui

Automate with the free API

Always get the newest build in scripts, Docker images, or panels — see the API docs:

https://mcjarfiles.com/api/get-latest-jar/servers/folia

Folia FAQ

Related downloads

Paper Leaf Velocity