Starter Minecraft Server suggestions?

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PaperMC Landing Page
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PaperMC

Paper is a fork of the Spigot server implementation (which is itself a fork of CraftBukkit). Paper strives to bring improved performance, more features, and more APIs for developers to build awesome plugins with.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Bukkit, Spigot, etc. Are all server software modifictions for JE (BE doesn't have any sadly) that allow the use of so called plugins. First, there was bukkit. Then a fork named spigot was created, and from that fork a fork called paper, which is the standard for JE today. They're installed just like normal binaries (I'm not sure if there are official docker containers available, but they run on java, so it isn't really needed).

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Geyser Landing Page
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Geyser

A bridge/proxy allowing you to connect to Minecraft: Java Edition servers with Minecraft: Bedrock edition.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Well, there are 2 editions of minecraft. "Minecraft: Java" for PC, and "Minecraft: Bedrock" for PC and consoles. Because your kids play on the switch, you will need the server software for the Bedrock Edition (BE for short), which isn't really advanced in terms of modding (But it does support every aspect of minecraft, which includes the built-in "command blocks" and "structure blocks", yet nothing beyond that). So, you could either use that or use the software for Java Edition (JE) with the packet translator GeyserMC, which is... buggier, but allows you to use the plugin feature of JE.

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