How stable is Sponge at the moment?

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How stable is sponge right now? (More specifically, VanillaSponge.) Is it stable enough to use for a small server with not many problems? Or is it still a nervous wreck that will always crash? I tested it and it seems to be fairly stable.

Also, which branch is more stable? SpongeVanilla or SpongeForge? Documentation says SpongeForge is in beta while SpongeVanilla is in alpha. I’d prefer SpongeVanilla.

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SpongeForge is undoubtedly more stable, and kept more updated. Both Sponge versions can function on a small server, and would only really crash if mods or plugins try to access something that doesn’t exist in the implementation. (A large part of the InventoryAPI for example). If stability and plugins are important to you, I would go with SpongeForge at the moment. If you don’t plan on using more than one or two plugins and definitely want SpongeVanilla, go ahead with SpongeVanilla.

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Just to point out, there’s a huge amount of the implementation that is shared (about 90% give or take) that is shared between the Forge and Vanilla implementation (this is known as SpongeCommon). The only real aspects where SpongeVanilla isn’t really well tested is because it just isn’t. SpongeVanilla has roughly the same implementation bugs and missing implementations as the SpongeForge version currently as they’re both made in sync, and a majority of the implementations exist in SpongeCommon for this exact reason. Currently, there’s very few things missing from the SpongeVanilla implementation that the SpongeForge implementation has an advantage over (aside from custom mod support).

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I can definitely vouch for this. We’ve been running a SpongeVanilla server and a SpongeForge server on the SCS (Sponge Community Server), and they both work very well - in fact, it can be hard to tell them apart. Since SpongeVanilla has been put on the SCS, it’s had a great deal more bug-testing (and consequent fixes too), and has caught up a long way. I’d recommend trying it out and see if it works well for you.

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Good to know. I migrated a vanilla server to SpongeVanilla and I’m using two plugins and it looks good. Sponge seems to be pretty rock-solid from my strenuous Ender Dragon and TNT testing. It’s a lot better than the Minecraft Forge server I tested…
I tested Minecraft Forge server and it seems to be a pile of junk… The console floods with lots of unknown random gibberish, and the server crashed frequently. Then I tried adding a mod (Forge Essentials I think it was called) and it would always crash. :confused:

You mentioned Sponge Community Server… there’s a community Minecraft server for Sponge?? :astonished: Where??

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You can find it at demo.spongepowered.org :slight_smile:

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Wow cool! :grinning:
I searched everywhere for a demo server but couldn’t find it!
Where’s the information of the demo server? :confused:

BTW, with all those plugins, why is there no GreifPrevention? The spawn is unprotected! :frowning:

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Ummm, it’s supposed to be protected with FoxGuard. @gravityfox is there a problem here?

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Yes that was a problem on my end.

Configuration was being loaded incorrectly.

It has since been fixed.

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I have a spongevanilla server at the moment, and find it quite reliable. The only problem is: I run the server on a Raspberry Pi network (yes, it’s quite the small server so far), and some plugins have certain errors that cause crashes like multi-threading or anything else of the like. If there are features that you cannot get in-game, I program them myselft (after searching for plugins like the features I need). BTW, to any sponge admin, THANK YOU for the spongedocs, they were very useful.

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