FAWE

FAWE, short for Fast Async WorldEdit, is a high-performance fork of the WorldEdit plugin designed for Minecraft servers. Its core aim is to speed up large-scale world-editing tasks while reducing lag by performing many operations asynchronously on separate threads. This approach helps servers handle extensive edits—such as terraforming, mass replacement, or large structure placement—without blocking the main server thread.

FAWE provides the same set of editing tools as WorldEdit, including commands like //set, //copy, //paste, //replace, and //undo, as well as region selections, brushes, and the creation of complex shapes. It also supports loading and applying schematic files (.schematic/.schem) and includes advanced brush options and shape generators. A key feature is its block palette optimization and chunk-aware processing, which improves performance on large regions. FAWE is designed to work alongside protection plugins such as WorldGuard to respect region boundaries, and it remains compatible with other server-management tools in the Spigot/Paper ecosystem.

Development and community: FAWE is a community-maintained project that originated as a fork of WorldEdit, with contributions from volunteers across the Minecraft server community. It is distributed as an open-source plugin for Spigot-based servers and is regularly updated to support new game versions. Administrators typically install FAWE by adding its jar to the server’s plugins folder and configuring it through its documentation. FAWE is widely used on networks that require rapid, scalable editing capabilities for large worlds.