Bukkit and Spigot Minecraft 1.8 and 1.7.10 Mirror Download Links

Bukkit and forked projects from Bukkit are now dead. With the acquisition of Mojang by Microsoft (Bukkit was owned by Mojang) and other recent events, all of the senior staff for Bukkit have left the project and numerous other Bukkit developers have left too. Additionally, Bukkit has been completely taken down due to a copyright notice. The same goes for other projects, such as Spigot, which are forked from Bukkit. Fortunately, Bukkit Dev will remain operational.

Fortunately, I was able to get the Bukkit and Spigot JAR files for 1.7.10 and 1.8, and upload them to MEGA.

Here are the download links:

Download SpigotMC for Minecraft 1.7.10
Download SpigotMC for Minecraft 1.8

Download Bukkit for Minecraft 1.7.10
Download Bukkit for Minecraft 1.8

Also, there is another project called Sponge which is being created by numerous prominent members of the Minecraft modding community. Sponge will include numerous improvements over Bukkit, Forge integration, and numerous other features. You can read more about it here.

Bukkit is dead but there is Sponge

As you may have already heard, in the wake of Microsoft's acquisition of Mojang, numerous developers for the Bukkit Minecraft server software and all of the senior staff of Bukkit have left the project. Additionally, Bukkit has been completely taken down because of a DMCA request which can be read here.

Finally Bukkit is now updated for Minecraft 1.7.9

Good news - Bukkit has finally been updated for Minecraft 1.7.9. Be cautious, though. This is a development build so there may be unforeseen issues and there will very likely be comparability issues with some plugins.

Here is the post from their forum on the new release:

A new CraftBukkit for Minecraft 1.7.9 DEVELOPMENT build is now available!

As of this post, we've shifted development over to Minecraft 1.7.9 compatibility and now have development builds available. We strongly suggest that you only use this build if you would like to help us get a Beta build out sooner and are experienced with using unsupported development builds.

Minecraft 1.7.6+ contains important changes to enable support for the upcoming switch to UUIDs and name changing. We strongly recommend you read our previous article on the switch to UUIDs to help you understand what it means for servers and how to prepare for Mojang allowing name changes by Minecraft 1.8.

WARNING: Minecraft 1.7.9 is an update that requires clients to update before being able to connect. This means that players will not be able to connect to your server if they have not updated to at least Minecraft 1.7.6.

Will plugins break with this build? Minecraft 1.7 is one of the most involved updates to date, with Mojang having touched a reported ~220k+ lines of code. As a result, a significant amount of the code base has shifted making it difficult to ensure any stability with regards to our API. That being said, it is difficult to determine if plugins will be breaking with our 1.7.x update and the state of the API in our earlier development builds should NOT be relied upon in any way.

What is a Development Build? A Development build is provided AS IS and COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED. You should only be running these builds if you are completely aware of how to properly make use of them. Support requests of ANY KIND will be removed without warning. If you have to ask where or how to get the development build, you should NOT be running it and posts of that nature will be deleted.

Known Issues: None

Get the latest development build here

Creating a modded Minecraft server with both Bukkit and Forge mods

There are a lot of good Minecraft plugins for Bukkit and a bunch of good Minecraft mods for Forge but most of the time, you don't see Forge mods and Bukkit plugins on the same server. Fortunately, there is MCPC-Plus which is a modified version of the Minecraft server that runs both Bukkit plugins and Forge mods.