Guides, tutorials, and tips for game server hosting. Everything you need to get the most out of your server.
Self-hosting a Palworld server is fine for 2–3 friends on a spare PC. Past that, electricity, an exposed home IP and the hours of admin usually beat managed hosting. The honest maths.
Most Palworld mods are client-only and do nothing server-side. Here’s the honest 1.0 picture: client-side vs server-side mods, why every server-side mod path is Windows-only, the "mods are not allowed on this server" fix, crossplay, and why mods break on updates.
If your Palworld server settings keep resetting, it’s one of six things — editing while the server runs, the wrong file, a broken line, an overriding difficulty, a leftover WorldOption.sav, or permissions. Here’s each with the fix.
Get Xbox, PS5, Game Pass and Steam players onto one Palworld dedicated server — including the -publiclobby flag most guides skip, the two UDP ports, and why your server isn’t showing up.
Move a co-op or single-player Palworld world onto a dedicated server the right way — including the host-GUID remap that stops you loading in as a level-1 stranger, and the save file that quietly overrides your settings.
Copy-paste PalWorldSettings.ini presets for casual, balanced, hardcore and PvP servers — real key names and defaults, plus the reasons your edits sometimes don’t stick.
The complete, current guide to running a Palworld 1.0 dedicated server — requirements, ports, PalWorldSettings.ini, crossplay, save migration and the memory leak, with real numbers and copy-paste config.
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.
Six community-voted mods are now one-click installable on every Connect BeamMP server: Skeleton Coast (the biggest map in BeamNG), Downhill Mayhem, the LeGran Expansion Pack, SP Winch, the GD808 JAS Hypercar, and the FPS Trapez.