How much RAM does a Craft to Exile 2 server need?

Our 10GB test server idled at 7.2GB before anyone joined and took about a minute to start, so we recommend 12GB for a group and treat 8GB as the floor. Checkout will not sell a plan below 8GB. Endgame Maps add load on top of that, so a big group farming Maps in parallel should look at 16GB.

Is there an official Craft to Exile 2 server pack?

Yes. Every release publishes a server pack under Additional Files on the pack’s CurseForge page. You never handle it on our hosting: provisioning downloads the server pack for the version you choose and sets up Forge and Java 17 to match. We booted it on a test server before listing the pack here.

Can our characters move from singleplayer to the server?

Characters, levels and gear are saved in the world, so the simplest route is to upload your singleplayer world to the server and keep playing it there. Starting a fresh world on the server means fresh characters for everyone.

How many players can a Craft to Exile 2 server hold?

The pack sets no cap. What decides it is how many separate areas are loaded at once — players spread across different dimensions and Maps cost far more than a party moving together. Start on the recommended plan and step up if the group grows or splits up for endgame farming.

Can Bedrock or console players join?

No. Craft to Exile 2 is a Forge pack for Java Edition, so every player needs Java with the same pack version installed, most easily through the CurseForge app.

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Craft to Exile 2
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Diablo and Path of Exile, rebuilt inside Minecraft — and made for a party.

Craft to Exile 2 turns Minecraft into an action RPG. Mine and Slash gives every player a class, a talent tree, ascendancies and support gems, and the world is paced like a campaign: level bands for each dimension, then repeatable instanced Maps for the endgame. It is built to be played together, which is why it belongs on a server that stays up between sessions. Order here and the pack comes pre-selected, with Forge, Java 17 and the official server pack installed before your first join.

12 GB recommended, $23.99/mo

Pack pre-installed Unlimited player slots Off-server backups DDoS protection

Craft to Exile 2

FORGE · MC 1.20.1

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Mods

340+ mods

Minecraft

1.20.1

Loader

Forge

Downloads

2.8M+

Needs 8GB minimum · runs best on 12GB

Forge 1.20.1 Mine and Slash ARPG, 343 mods — idles at 7.2GB on 10GB (bench 2026-11-15); each open Map is another loaded dimension

Sized for the pack

How much RAM does Craft to Exile 2 need?

Craft to Exile 2 needs 8GB of server memory to start and runs best on 12GB — the same guidance our checkout enforces, so a plan that can't run the pack can't be bought with it. Every size below carries it; resize anytime and your world moves with you.

8 GB

300% CPU · 60 GB NVMe · 3 backups · 1 DB

Clears the pack's minimum — fine for two or three careful players, with little headroom to spare.

$15.99/mo

Recommended for Craft to Exile 2

12 GB

400% CPU · 90 GB NVMe · 3 backups · 1 DB

Where Craft to Exile 2 runs the way it should — our recommendation for a group of friends.

$23.99/mo

16 GB

500% CPU · 120 GB NVMe · 3 backups · 1 DB

Headroom for busy nights, ambitious bases and bigger communities — the upgrade path when the server fills up.

$31.99/mo

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Zero-setup hosting

Craft to Exile 2, installed before you join

01Order with the pack pre-selected

Come from this page and Craft to Exile 2 is already picked at checkout — no searching, no version guesswork. Choose a plan and region and pay.

02We install everything server-side

Provisioning sets up Forge for Minecraft 1.20.1, the matching Java runtime and the pack's own server files. Most servers are joinable within minutes.

03Update and roll back from the panel

Pack updates install with one click and a backup snapshots your world first — following a pack’s development never risks the map.

Self-hosting?

Craft to Exile 2 server pack & server files

Craft to Exile 2 publishes its server files as a separate Server Pack download on the pack’s CurseForge Files tab. It is not the same zip as the client pack: client-only mods are stripped out and start scripts are included. Craft to Exile 2 on CurseForge ↗

Running the Craft to Exile 2 server yourself

01Install Java 17 — the runtime Forge on Minecraft 1.20.1 is built for. The wrong Java is the most common reason a pack server refuses to start.
02Unzip the server pack into an empty folder and run its start script (or the Forge installer it bundles).
03Give the JVM 12GB with -Xmx — 8GB is the realistic floor for this pack.
04Accept the EULA in eula.txt, forward port 25565, and keep the machine on whenever anyone wants to play.

Or skip all four steps. We install the same server files, Forge and Java 17 before your first join, the server stays up when your PC is off, and pack updates take a backup first.

Straight from the pack

This is what you're hosting

A player in diamond armour holding a cake on the lantern-lit boardwalk of a desert village in Craft to Exile 2

The Craft to Exile 2 talent tree: hundreds of connected passive nodes in red, blue, purple and green, with one allocated path lit up

Screenshots from Craft to Exile 2's own catalogue listing — what your server runs, not mock-ups.

About the pack

What is Craft to Exile 2?

Craft to Exile 2 is a Forge 1.20.1 pack built around Mine and Slash, a mod that brings action-RPG progression to Minecraft. You choose a starting class, gain stats and skills with every level, spend points across a large passive talent tree, and eventually commit to an ascendancy: a blood mage, a summoner, a crit berserker, an elementalist. Gear drops with rarities, uniques and runewords, and support gems change how your skills behave, so two players with the same class can end up with completely different builds.

The world is a campaign. FTB Quests walks you through a prologue and a campaign told in acts, each dimension has a level range — the Overworld to level 15, the Nether to 30, then the Undergarden, Everbright and Everdawn, the End and the Otherside — and from level 50 in Act V the endgame opens: Maps, repeatable instanced dungeons full of bosses, shaped by an Atlas tree. Around that sit Minecraft Comes Alive villages you can run as mayor, the Delight family of cooking mods, Aquaculture and an optional Botania tech line.

From our game servers team

Running Craft to Exile 2 well

Run Maps as a party, not in parallel

Every Map is its own instanced dungeon, and each one a player opens is loaded alongside the overworld. A party clearing one Map together is light on the server; five players each soloing a different Map at once is where memory climbs. If your group splits up for endgame farming, size the server for it.

Characters live in the world save

Levels, talents and gear are stored with the world, not on anyone’s PC. That is what makes a shared server the natural home for this pack — and why the save is worth protecting. Automatic off-server backups run on every plan; take a manual one before you update the pack.

Update between acts

Mine and Slash balance changes between pack versions can shift builds that took weeks. Update through the Software tab when the group is between acts, after a backup, so nobody loses a build mid-boss.

Everyone needs the same version

Clients must run exactly the server’s pack version or they are refused at login. When you update the server, tell the group to update in the CurseForge app before they try to join.

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