1.8.8SpigotTemplate

A ready to use template for developing spigot plugins on 1.8.8/1.8.9 with shade plugin integrated including the latest version of PaperMC's server.jar. Tested flawlessly on IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2022.2.1.

Setup

1. Clone this repository.
2. Open the project and let maven configure it.

Check out #build, #run and #debug for more information.

Build

1. Run the package task in Maven: Lifecycle > package

Output .jar will be located in server/plugins/

Run

The server.jar is paper 1.8.8 build 445. You can see a list of builds here. It probably won't be updated for a long time as the last build was in December 2021.

1. Open a terminal and cd into the server folder.
2. Run the following command which contains some good performance improving arguments.

# Make sure you're using cmd instead of ps as default terminal.
java -Xms4G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:G1NewSizePercent=30 -XX:G1MaxNewSizePercent=40 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=8M -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:G1HeapWastePercent=5 -XX:G1MixedGCCountTarget=4 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=15 -XX:G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent=90 -XX:G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent=5 -XX:SurvivorRatio=32 -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 -Dusing.aikars.flags=https://mcflags.emc.gs -Daikars.new.flags=true -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005 -jar server.jar nogui

Debug

Once you've run your server, you can use HotSwap instead of using /reload if it crashes your load events.

1. Create a new run configuration using the Remote JVM Configuration type.
2. Make sure the cmdline arguments match the ones you used to run the server.