# Velocity [](https://ci.velocitypowered.com/job/velocity/) [](https://discord.gg/8cB9Bgf) A Minecraft server proxy with unparalleled server support, scalability, and flexibility. Velocity is licensed under the MIT license for ultimate permissiveness and expanding the pool of potential contributors and users. ## Goals * A codebase that is easy to dive into and consistently follows best practices for Java projects as much as reasonably possible. * High performance: handle thousands of players on one proxy. * A new, refreshing API built from the ground up to be flexible and powerful whilst avoiding design mistakes and suboptimal designs from other proxies. * First-class support for Paper, Sponge, and Forge. (Other implementations may work, but we make every endeavor to support these server implementations specifically.) ## Building Velocity is built with [Gradle](https://gradle.org). We recommend using the wrapper script (`./gradlew`) as our CI builds using it. It is sufficient to run `./gradlew build` to run the full build cycle. ## Running Once you've built Velocity, you can copy and run the `-all` JAR from `proxy/build/libs`. Velocity will generate a default configuration file and you can configure it from there. Alternatively, you can get the proxy JAR from the [downloads](https://www.velocitypowered.com/downloads) page.