diff --git a/paper-api/src/main/java/org/bukkit/configuration/file/YamlConfiguration.java b/paper-api/src/main/java/org/bukkit/configuration/file/YamlConfiguration.java
index b76cf252f4..ed81e850b2 100644
--- a/paper-api/src/main/java/org/bukkit/configuration/file/YamlConfiguration.java
+++ b/paper-api/src/main/java/org/bukkit/configuration/file/YamlConfiguration.java
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ public class YamlConfiguration extends FileConfiguration {
     public void loadFromString(@NotNull String contents) throws InvalidConfigurationException {
         Preconditions.checkArgument(contents != null, "Contents cannot be null");
         yamlLoaderOptions.setProcessComments(options().parseComments());
+        yamlLoaderOptions.setCodePointLimit(options().codePointLimit()); // Paper
 
         MappingNode node;
         try (Reader reader = new UnicodeReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(contents.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)))) {
diff --git a/paper-api/src/main/java/org/bukkit/configuration/file/YamlConfigurationOptions.java b/paper-api/src/main/java/org/bukkit/configuration/file/YamlConfigurationOptions.java
index 3f69667e6b..6e43fbbe7b 100644
--- a/paper-api/src/main/java/org/bukkit/configuration/file/YamlConfigurationOptions.java
+++ b/paper-api/src/main/java/org/bukkit/configuration/file/YamlConfigurationOptions.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 public class YamlConfigurationOptions extends FileConfigurationOptions {
     private int indent = 2;
     private int width = 80;
+    private int codePointLimit = Integer.MAX_VALUE; // Paper - use upstream's default from YamlConfiguration
 
     protected YamlConfigurationOptions(@NotNull YamlConfiguration configuration) {
         super(configuration);
@@ -122,4 +123,29 @@ public class YamlConfigurationOptions extends FileConfigurationOptions {
         this.width = value;
         return this;
     }
+
+    // Paper start
+    /**
+     * Gets the maximum code point limit, that being, the maximum length of the document
+     * in which the loader will read
+     *
+     * @return The current value
+     */
+    public int codePointLimit() {
+        return codePointLimit;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the maximum code point limit, that being, the maximum length of the document
+     * in which the loader will read
+     *
+     * @param codePointLimit new codepoint limit
+     * @return This object, for chaining
+     */
+    @NotNull
+    public YamlConfigurationOptions codePointLimit(int codePointLimit) {
+        this.codePointLimit = codePointLimit;
+        return this;
+    }
+    // Paper end
 }