looking into how all these big minecraft servers are setup
hypixel blockgame
they all seem to be running a network of servers you are able to access and traverse between
sounds like waterfall was the goto proxy, but was just deprecated
Velocity is its replacement so giving that a go
spun up proxy server
spun up lobby server
tweaked borkzone server configs
connected everything up and turned it on
player hits proxy on connect
Proxy sends player to lobby server
player can use npc/command to latterly transfer between servers in network
lobby t0 creative
lobby to PVP
survival to lobby
mods are handled server side
all client has to do is connect and server takes care of the rest