Palworld Server Hosting

Plan for 8–16 GB. A small group with a base or two runs well on 8 GB; a full server with many bases and working Pals needs 16 GB. Memory use grows as the world does, so a server that is fine in week one can need more in week six. On GameTeam you change RAM in one click.

Up to 32. That limit comes from Palworld itself (ServerPlayerMaxNum), not from us — GameTeam never charges per slot.

Not on a dedicated server. The world runs on its own around the clock, so friends can join without you and the bases keep working while everyone is offline. That is the big difference from co-op, where the world closes when the host quits and only 4 people can play together.

In Palworld choose Join Multiplayer Game, paste your server's address (shown in the GameTeam panel) into the box at the bottom of the list and connect. Enter the server password if you set one.

Set AdminPassword in PalWorldSettings.ini (or ask the copilot to set it), then in game press Enter and type /AdminPassword followed by your password. You can then kick, ban, teleport and save with the admin commands.

Yes. Upload your world from Pal/Saved/SaveGames and the server picks it up — the save transfer guide shows where everything goes. One catch with co-op worlds: players are matched to their characters by an ID that changes between server types. The co-op host's character sits under a fixed placeholder ID, and a Windows co-op world moved to a Linux server (GameTeam's standard build) gives every player a new ID, so characters have to be converted with a host save fix tool or players start new ones.

You pay per GB of RAM: $0.49/GB a week on Budget, or $1.99/GB billed monthly. An 8 GB server is $3.92 a week; 16 GB is $7.84 a week. Slots are unlimited and the AI copilot is included.

Cheap should mean you pay for what your world actually uses, not for empty slots. On GameTeam the price is set per GB of RAM — $0.49/GB a week on Budget — so 8 GB is $3.92 a week and 12 GB is $5.88 a week, with every player slot included. Billing can be weekly, so you never buy a month the group might not play, and the first 72 hours are money-back.

Yes. A Palworld server rental on GameTeam can be billed by the week, so a weekend run with friends costs one week, not a month. Keep it as long as the group plays, add RAM in one click when the world grows, or switch the same server to another game when the tribe moves on.

Hosting it yourself costs nothing extra if you have a spare PC that can stay on, but you also forward UDP 8211 on your router, keep the server updated and fix the .ini when it breaks. A hosting service runs it on hardware built for the job — Ryzen 9 7950X and NVMe on GameTeam — with nothing to forward, DDoS protection included and the copilot doing the fiddly parts. The dedicated server guide covers the do-it-yourself route step by step.

Yes. The server runs the current Palworld Dedicated Server build — the 1.0 line as of October 2026 — and updates itself to the latest version when you stop and start it from the panel, so it stays on the same version as your friends' game.

PalWorldSettings.ini keeps every option on one long line under a single section header. If that header line is altered — an escaped character, a line break, a stray quote — the game does not report an error, it skips the whole block and runs on defaults. It looks like the settings were ignored rather than like a broken file. Editing through the panel or the AI copilot avoids it, because the file is rewritten as a whole rather than patched.

Palworld mods need the Windows build running under Wine with UE4SS; the Linux dedicated build cannot load them at all. Switch to the "Palworld UE4SS" option from Change Game — your save is kept — and then .pak mods go into Pal/Content/Paks while UE4SS Lua mods go under Pal/Binaries/Win64/ue4ss/Mods. The Tools page installs both formats from a link for you.

That is a segmentation fault, and on Palworld it is almost always the container image rather than the world or the settings. Older SteamCMD images crash on current Palworld builds; the current image runs fine. It is a one-line image change, not a reinstall, and nothing in the save is lost.