PaperMC/Folia
Folia
Folia is a regionised multithreaded Minecraft server fork and game engine designed to increase capacity and processing speed for large player counts. It functions as a multithreaded system that distributes entity and block logic across a thread pool to avoid single-core bottlenecks.
The server utilizes a regional task scheduler that splits the game world into independent regions processed in parallel across multiple CPU cores. This architecture employs coordinate-based thread mapping and spatial task scheduling to ensure that game logic is executed on specific threads based on the physical location of entities within the world.
The project covers high-concurrency server scaling and thread-safe entity management. It implements parallel regional processing and thread-local region ownership to prevent data corruption and ensure that independent world regions are processed simultaneously.
Features
- Region-Based Multithreading - Divides the game world into independent spatial sections processed by separate threads to utilize multiple CPU cores.
- Parallel Regional Processing - Distribute independent region logic across a thread pool to maintain high performance for large-scale environments.
- Task Schedulers - Executes game logic on specific threads based on the physical location of entities within the game world.
- High-Concurrency Minecraft Servers - Provides a high-performance Minecraft server implementation that splits the world into regions to support many players.
- Minecraft Server Forks - Provides a modified version of a dedicated Minecraft server designed for increased capacity and processing speed.
- Multithreaded Game Engines - Implements a server-side architecture that distributes entity and block logic across a thread pool.
- Regionised Multithreaded Minecraft Servers - Provides a high-performance server implementation that splits the game world into independent regions processed in parallel.
- Thread-Local Region Ownership - Restricts data access to the specific thread currently managing a region to prevent concurrent modification and data corruption.
- Thread-Safe Entity Management - Handles entity and block updates in a multithreaded environment to prevent data corruption and server crashes.
- Coordinate-Based Thread Mapping - Implements a system that links specific world positions to dedicated execution threads to maintain sequential operations within a region.
- Regionised Multithreading Workflows - Executes game logic in parallel across multiple threads to prevent a single area from lagging the entire server.
- Spatial Scheduling - Assigns logic updates to specific worker threads based on the world coordinates of the entities or blocks involved.
- Thread Ownership Verification - Checks if the executing thread owns a position or entity to prevent data corruption from cross-region access.
- Region-Aware Task Execution - Run specific tasks on the thread owning a location to ensure safe access to regional data.
- Minecraft Server Optimizations - Increases player capacity and performance by distributing workload across all available processor threads.
