How to Host a Palworld 1.0 Server

Looking to start up a Palworld server to play with your friends, or just want to keep your world online 24/7 for others to be able to join and play?

We'll help break down everything you need to know, and how you can get started with a server that's customized just to your liking.

Getting Your Server

The first step is, of course, choosing how you'd like to host your server! The easiest solution for this is to use a hosting provider like Kinetic Hosting.

We're confident enough to say that Kinetic Hosting is the best Palworld server host to get started with, especially thanks to our affordable plans that don't sacrifice performance!

We offer latency-free servers built especially to handle intensive games like Palworld, and we never overcharge for hardware or RAM. Our team prides itself on our 100% human support, and our fully custom panel built specifically for the needs of players looking for services like Palworld server hosting.

You'll never need to worry about AI chat bots, long wait times, or being locked into unwanted plans. As part of that commitment, we also have a 7-day money back guarantee if for any reason you aren't satisfied with our services!

To keep things simple, we highlight two of the best packages for most server owners on our main Palworld page! But if you're looking for something more specific, you can select "View more packages" to see our full list of packages and server plans.

If you're still having trouble deciding, don't worry! You can upgrade or downgrade your server at any time risk-free, and only pay the difference between the plans in cost.

Next Steps

Once you've picked out a server plan, it's time to prepare your server. There are a few things that server owners usually like to tackle first.

Setting a Server Password

It's important to make sure that you set a password for your server if you want to avoid unknown players joining your world. Since servers are by default 24/7, this can help if you don't want random players building their own bases in the server while you're offline!

Our game panel actually makes this super easy, and you can get a password set up with just a few clicks. We even have a brief guide on the process here for those hosting with Kinetic Hosting.

Adding Mods / Workshop Collections

One of Palworld's biggest strengths is how much the game has supported its modding community ever since release. If you have mods in mind that you'd like to add before you join into the world so that they're present from the beginning, now is the best time!

There are a few types of mods for Palworld, mostly broken into three categories: .pak mods, ue4ss mods, and Steam Workshop mods. UE4SS mods tend to be regarded as the most unreliable of any of the 3 main options, but are always installable if you find one that you'd like to try out!

The steps for installing these mods will vary based on the type.

For general mod installation, we have an awesome guide that our knowledgebase team put together to make things as simple as possible!

If you find or create a collection of mods on a service like Nexus Mods, though, you can also directly import your collection to your server using the collection ID! This method only supports mods from Nexus Mods for your collection, but can be a super quick way to enter a couple characters and have your server handle the installation for you.

If you'd prefer using a Nexus Mods collection for your Palworld modpack, we have a separate guide that walks through those steps here!

Granting Yourself Permissions

Managing your server through our game panel isn't the only way to make changes! Palworld lets you set yourself as an administrator, allowing yourself to run commands in-game as well without needing to leave the game window.

While we do have a guide on the process for that here, there's also a great instructional video attached below if you'd prefer a visual walk-through!

The main setup is now done! You've got admin permissions set up if you want them, you've added any mods you want, and you have a host that will help you keep your server online as much as you want.

If you'd like to take things a step further, you still can! There are lots of settings that Palworld offers for server owners to fine-tune the actual experience in-game.

Customizing Your Settings

We have a custom, visual panel for adjusting all of your Palworld settings, which allows you to personalize your experience as much as you want without the hassle of confusing text file formatting when applicable.

Our knowledgebase team is always on top of adding guides whenever new systems come out for games to help make reduce the difficulty of managing your server. Our guide on customizing Palworld server settings also features its own video tutorial as well for those that prefer more visual instructions:

One of the most commonly edited settings for Palworld which you might want to consider is adjusting the egg hatching rate on your server! This can let you save time by making eggs hatch faster (or slower, if that's your speed) according to your preference.

Otherwise, Palworld's 1.0 update added a lot of new settings you might want to experiment with as well, such as in-game voice chat settings to choose whether or not you want players to be able to speak to eachother in-game. If you haven't already, we recommend checking out our blog post covering all of the key changes to the game in its full release update!

After you've customized the settings for your server to your liking, you're all set! You have a Palworld server up and running, and can get started playing with friends.

If you have any issues or questions about how to do anything on your server, our human support team is always going to be around to help. Please feel free to contact us any time, and we'd be more than happy to walk you through anything you need so you can get back to playing as soon as possible.

Try out Kinetic Hosting's Palworld server hosting services today, and don't overpay for RAM! We'll keep your server running lag-free and as easy to manage as possible.