Palworld’s server memory leak survived the 1.0 update. The symptoms, the two mitigations that genuinely work — scheduled restarts and the invader setting — and what doesn’t.
Pocketpair recommends 16GB for a Palworld dedicated server — but the right answer depends on player count, world age, and the memory leak. Real guidance for 1.0 servers.
Server clustering was the most anticipated dedicated-server feature of Palworld 1.0 — and it isn’t in the release. What clustering is, what’s actually in the server binary, and what to do while you wait.
Palworld left early access on July 10, 2026. Here is what the 1.0 update means for dedicated servers: new server-side settings, what carried over, what the update did NOT include, and what server owners should do now.