minekube / gate

High-performance, resource-efficient Minecraft reverse proxy with robust multi-protocol version support. Designed as a scalable Velocity/BungeeCord alternative, suitable for both development and large-scale deployments. Proven in production environments, powering our global Connect edge proxy network.

The extensible Minecraft Proxy

Gate is an extensible, high performant & paralleled Minecraft proxy server with scalability, flexibility & excellent server version support - written in Go and ready for the cloud!

Website & Documentation

There is a lot to discover on Gate's website. Please refer to the website for the documentation, guides and any more information needed!

Quick Start

Follow our quick start guide on creating a simple Minecraft network!

Platform	Installation Command
Go	go run go.minekube.com/gate@latest
Linux/macOS	curl -fsSL https://gate.minekube.com/install | bash
Windows	powershell -c "irm https://gate.minekube.com/install.ps1 | iex"

Gate Lite Mode

Gate has a Lite Mode which is a lightweight version of Gate that can expose multiple Minecraft servers through a single port and IP address and reverse proxy players to backend servers based on the hostname/subdomain they join with.

See the Lite Mode guide for more information.

graph LR
    A[Player Alice] -->|Join example.com| C(Gate Lite)
    B[Player Bob] -->|Join my.example.com| C(Gate Lite)
    C -->|10.0.0.1| D[Backend A]
    C -->|10.0.0.2| E[Backend B]
    C -->|10.0.0.3| F[Another Proxy]

    linkStyle 0 stroke:orange
    linkStyle 1 stroke:purple
    linkStyle 2 stroke:purple
    linkStyle 3 stroke:orange

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Developers Starter Template

The starter template is designed to help you get started with your own Gate powered project. Fork it! 🚀 - minekube/gate-plugin-template