Vintage Story Help Center
Guides, tutorials, and troubleshooting for your Vintage Story server
Getting Started
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.
Getting Started with Your Vintage Story Server
Just bought a Vintage Story server? Wait for "Dedicated Server now running", copy your address and port, make yourself an admin with /op, decide who can join now that servers are invite-only by default, and add the server in Multiplayer.
Server Management
View all (6)How to Add Mods to Your Vintage Story Server
Where the server mod folder is (data/Mods), installing a mod release for your game version, dependencies, which mods players need too and where their Mods folder is, removing mods safely, and why the built-in /moddb install errors on 1.22.7.
Vintage Story Server Settings: serverconfig.json Explained
What the lines in serverconfig.json do, from ServerName and WelcomeMessage to WhitelistMode and MaxChunkRadius, how to edit the file safely, why new servers are invite-only since 1.20, and which world settings only apply to new worlds.
Vintage Story Server Commands (and the Creative Mode Command)
The server commands owners use most, checked against the game wiki: /op, /gamemode creative and /gm, kick and ban, teleport, time and weather, /serverconfig, saving and /stats. Plus .chb, the in-game command handbook.
How to Update Your Vintage Story Server (and Keep Mods Working)
Updating is easy; mods are the work. How fast the top 200 mods caught up with 1.22, how to check each mod before you update, a backup-first update order, and what players need to do.
Upload Your Vintage Story World (.vcdbs) to Your Server
Bring a world from the official server or single player: where the .vcdbs file is, uploading it to data/Saves, pointing SaveFileLocation at it, and checking the seed.
Troubleshooting
Players Can't Join My Vintage Story Server
Server online but players unable to connect? Work through the still-starting, version-mismatch, port, whitelist, password, mod, ban and full-server checks, then the player's own connection.
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.
Billing & Account
Vintage Story Plans & Resources: How Much RAM Do You Need?
What the memory is for: our measured 1.2 GB idle vanilla and 2.1 GB with 16 mods, the game wiki's 1 GB + 300 MB per player estimate, and the wiki's own settings for a smoother busy server.
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 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.
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.
How to Cancel Your Server Subscription
Step-by-step guide to cancelling your server subscription and what happens after cancellation.
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.
Understanding Your Invoice
Learn how to read your Connect Hosting invoice and understand billing cycles, charges, and payment methods.
Players Can't Join My Vintage Story Server
Server online but players unable to connect? Work through the still-starting, version-mismatch, port, whitelist, password, mod, ban and full-server checks, then the player's own connection.