When am I meant to reach for this over Fabric or Paper? Does redstone operate like vanilla?
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Minestom isn't a plug-and-play server, but rather a framework for building custom servers. It's geared towards cases where performance is important (think big servers) and implementing your features is faster than pruning an existing implementation. There are several libraries that implement vanilla behaviour and that you can just plug onto your server, but the main idea is that you tailor the server to your specific needs.