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Sponge

Modding API and plugin platform for Minecraft servers

Game Servers ★ 437 stars Medium setup MIT

Sponge is a Minecraft modding platform that provides a powerful, community-driven plugin API for server-side mods. It runs as SpongeForge or SpongeVanilla, enabling rich server customization without client-side mods.

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Key features

  • Powerful plugin API
  • Server-side modding
  • SpongeForge and SpongeVanilla
  • Active developer community

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Written in Java

Is Sponge secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Sponge's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Sponge replaces

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