Project Zomboid Help Center
Guides, tutorials, and troubleshooting for your Project Zomboid server
Getting Started
Getting Started with Your Project Zomboid Server
Just bought a B42 server? Find it in your dashboard, start it, grab your IP and ports, connect the group and make your first settings change — in about five minutes.
How to Connect to Your Game Server
Learn how to connect to your newly provisioned game server using your server's IP address and port.
Server Management
Project Zomboid Backups & Saves: Protecting Your World
How your world saves, what the Backups tab covers, when to take a manual snapshot, and the save-while-stopped rule that keeps a B42 world restorable.
Changing Your Project Zomboid Server Settings
Edit servertest.ini and SandboxVars from the dashboard — name, password, PvP, player cap, mods and world rules — plus the stopped-server rule and which changes need a restart.
Installing Workshop Mods on Your Project Zomboid Server
Add Steam Workshop mods with the WorkshopItems and Mods keys — where each ID comes from, the semicolon rule, load order basics, and how to recover when a mod breaks the boot.
How to Connect to Your Server with SFTP
Use FileZilla, WinSCP or any SFTP client to upload large mods and maps, edit configs and download backups. Find your details, set a password and connect.
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Connection Issues
Can't connect to your game server? Quick checks first, then the exact errors for Minecraft, BeamMP, Palworld and Project Zomboid — and what to send support if you're still stuck.
Players Can't Join My Project Zomboid Server
Server running but friends time out or freeze on loading? Work through the build-mismatch, mod-mismatch, password and direct-connect checks that solve most B42 join failures.
Billing & Account
Project Zomboid Server Plans Explained
B42 is RAM-hungry — every plan differs mainly by memory. How mods and group size drive what you need, what each tier fits, and how upgrading works without losing your world.
Understanding Your Invoice
Learn how to read your Connect Hosting invoice and understand billing cycles, charges, and payment methods.
How to Cancel Your Server Subscription
Step-by-step guide to cancelling your server subscription and what happens after cancellation.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Troubleshooting Connection Issues
Can't connect to your game server? Quick checks first, then the exact errors for Minecraft, BeamMP, Palworld and Project Zomboid — and what to send support if you're still stuck.
ONBOARDING
How to Connect to Your Game Server
Learn how to connect to your newly provisioned game server using your server's IP address and port.
BILLING
Understanding Your Invoice
Learn how to read your Connect Hosting invoice and understand billing cycles, charges, and payment methods.
GUIDE
How to Cancel Your Server Subscription
Step-by-step guide to cancelling your server subscription and what happens after cancellation.
GUIDE
How to Connect to Your Server with SFTP
Use FileZilla, WinSCP or any SFTP client to upload large mods and maps, edit configs and download backups. Find your details, set a password and connect.
TROUBLESHOOTING
Players Can't Join My Project Zomboid Server
Server running but friends time out or freeze on loading? Work through the build-mismatch, mod-mismatch, password and direct-connect checks that solve most B42 join failures.