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+Purpur
+==
+
+Purpur is a fork of Paper used by the Pl3xCraft server.
+
+It contains many gameplay changes to suit our server that are deemed too wild to be included directly upstream into Paper.
+
+## Contact
+[Discord](https://discord.gg/zAs8W5u)
+
+## License
+Everything is licensed under the MIT license, and is free to be used in your own fork.
+
+See [EMC](https://github.com/starlis/empirecraft) and [byof](https://github.com/electronicboy/byof) 
+for the license of material used/modified by this project.
+
+## Building and setting up
+Run the following commands in the root directory:
+
+```
+git submodule init
+git submodule update
+./purpur up
+./purpur patch
+```
+#### Creating a patch
+Patches are effectively just commits in either `Purpur-API` or `Purpur-Server`. 
+To create one, just add a commit to either repo and run `./purpur rb`, and a 
+patch will be placed in the patches folder. Modifying commits will also modify its 
+corresponding patch file.
+
+See [Paper's contributing guideline](https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more detailed information.
+
+
+#### Building
+
+Use the command `./purpur build` to build the api and server. Compiled jars
+will be placed under `Purpur-API/target` and `Purpur-Server/target`.