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Colony Survival Server Hosting

Colony Survival is a first-person strategy game from a two-person studio: plant a banner in a voxel world, put colonists to work as farmers, miners and guards, and hold the walls when monsters come at night. Colony Survival server hosting keeps your world running for the whole group, with colonies that keep working and growing between your sessions.

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Size your colony

Colony Survival Server Hosting Plans and Prices

Steam asks for only 2GB of RAM to play Colony Survival, so the two smaller plans use the free 5GB tier. The 40 and 60 slot plans add memory for the bigger colonies, longer rails and more colonists that larger groups build. Monthly billing, no minimum term.

  1. 10player slots
    5GB RAM

    Friends sharing one colonyBest start

    • The cheapest Colony Survival server
    • Co-op for a small group
    • Free 5GB memory tier
    €6.77/moMonthly, no contract
    Order 10
  2. 20player slots
    5GB RAM

    Several colonies trading

    • Everyone builds their own colony
    • Trade items and science
    • Free 5GB memory tier
    €13.53/moMonthly, no contract
    Order 20
  3. 40player slots
    8GB RAM

    A community world

    • Many colonies, one map
    • Room for rails and outposts
    • 8GB memory
    €19.82/moMonthly, no contract
    Order 40
  4. 60player slots
    12GB RAM

    Large public servers

    • Busy worlds with modded content
    • Headroom for huge colonies
    • 12GB memory
    €26.83/moMonthly, no contract
    Order 60

Every plan: NVMe 7500MB/s · 5.0GHz · Up to 100GB. No setup fee. Upgrades and details

In short

Gaming Deluxe hosts Colony Survival dedicated servers from €6.77/mo, with 10 to 60 player slots on the plans below and 5GB to 12GB of RAM. Choose from 9 locations in the UK, France, Germany, the US and Australia; setup is automatic after payment, with full file access for worlds, settings and mods.

Key facts checked against our order form, updated .

  • 10 to 60 player slotsSizes from 10 to 100 on the order form
  • 5GB to 12GB RAMMore memory for bigger colonies
  • 9 locationsOne price wherever you host
  • Mods and Workshop worldsThe game is built to be modded
  • Windows, macOS and LinuxCross-platform play on Steam
  • Offsite backupsSeven days of world copies
  • DDoS protectionAt every location
  • 24/7 support in 9 languagesHosting since 2004

Run the world

Your Colony Survival Server Hosting Control Panel

A colony server is a world folder, a settings file and the mods you load. The panel gives you all three without a remote desktop.

Gaming Deluxe game server control panel with the server menu, connection details and Stop and Restart buttons

The Gaming Deluxe control panel, pictured with a Windrose server. Colony Survival servers use the same panel and menu.

Settings in the browser

Change the server name, password, player limit and game rules, save, and restart.

Worlds over SFTP

Upload a world you started on your PC, or download the server's world to keep a copy.

Mod folders

Drop server mods into place with the File Manager or SFTP.

Backup Manager

Snapshot the world before a big update or a new mod, and restore it if things go sideways.

Scheduled restarts

Restart when nobody is online so the server starts each day fresh.

Console

Read the log live to see who joins and catch mod errors early.

Updated in 2026

Colony Survival Server Hosting and the 2026 Updates

Colony Survival has been in Early Access on Steam since 16 June 2017 and is still updated regularly by Pipliz. The 2026 updates changed hosting in particular: since update 0.17 on 25 June 2026, servers connect to the in-game server browser automatically, without port forwarding.

Early Access16 June 20170.1725 June 20260.1821 August 2026

01

0.17: Quests and Counters

Released on 25 June 2026. It improved multiplayer, connected servers to the browser automatically and added a quests tab to help new colonies.

02

0.18: Split Screen

Live on 21 August 2026. Two players can share one PC, and with Remote Play Together a friend can join a split-screen game without owning it. The patches since have brought the build to 0.18.0.9.

03

0.16: Oddity Press

Live on 17 April 2026, adding an automatic crafter for decorative items and new beds.

04

0.15: Top-down view

Released in November 2025, adding the Overseer's Desk for a top-down perspective and blueprints.

Mods & worlds

Mods, Worlds and Crossplay on Colony Survival Server Hosting

Pipliz says it built Colony Survival to be as moddable as possible, and the community has made the most of it. A dedicated server is where a group's mod list and world live.

Mods and content

Mod support

Mods can add items, jobs and even their own buttons and menus. Load the same mods on the server and on every player's game.

Steam Workshop

Worlds and mods are shared on the Workshop through the game's Mod Manager. Upload a Workshop world to the server to play it together.

Blueprints

Update 0.15 added blueprints, and the community shares them on the developers' Discord.

Players and rules

Windows, macOS and Linux

Steam lists all three platforms and cross-platform multiplayer, so a mixed group can share one server.

Shared or separate colonies

Share ownership of one colony with friends, or each build your own and trade items and science.

Cheats and settings

Turn monsters off for a peaceful build server, or let them spawn in daylight for a harder one.

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Memory per colony

RAM for Colony Survival Server Hosting

Colony Survival is light to run, but a world's load grows with every colonist, every pathfinding monster and every rail line. Small servers sit comfortably on the free 5GB tier, and the bigger plans add memory because more players means more colonies working at once.

  • One shared colony

    Plan: 10 Slots
    Memory: 5GB

    Notes: Plenty for a group of friends.

  • A few trading colonies

    Plan: 20 Slots
    Memory: 5GB

    Notes: Comfortable for typical worlds.

  • Community map with outposts

    Plan: 40 Slots
    Memory: 8GB

    Notes: Room for many colonies at once.

  • Large modded public

    Plan: 60 Slots
    Memory: 12GB

    Notes: Headroom for huge colonies and mods.

Memory tiers on the order form: 5GB, 8GB, 12GB, 16GB, 20GB, 24GB and 32GB. You can change tier later from the client area and the world stays as it is.

Low ping building

Colony Survival Server Hosting Locations and Ping Test

Choose from 9 locations in the UK, France, Germany, the United States and Australia. Run the test from your own PC and pick the lowest result for most of your players.

LondonUnited Kingdom · Europe -
ParisFrance · Europe -
FrankfurtGermany · Europe -
New York (Buffalo)United States · North America -
DallasUnited States · North America -
Los AngelesUnited States · North America -
ChicagoUnited States · North America -
MiamiUnited States · North America No test
SydneyAustralia · Oceania -

Always-On Protection

Colony Survival Server Hosting with DDoS Protection

Watch how our multi-layered defence system filters malicious traffic while legitimate connections pass through uninterrupted.

Internet DDoS Protection Game Server

Malicious traffic is filtered at the edge, while legitimate traffic passes through uninterrupted.

Malicious Traffic (Blocked)Legitimate Traffic (Allowed)

At Every Location
Included
Full Protection
Layer 3/4/7
24/7 Active Filtering
Always-On
Added Latency
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In every plan

What Colony Survival Server Hosting Includes

No setup fee and nothing you have to add. Every Colony Survival plan includes the following.

  • ServerA Colony Survival dedicated server
  • Player slots10 to 60 on these plans, 10 to 100 on the order form
  • Memory5GB to 12GB by plan, up to 32GB optional
  • Storage100GB NVMe at 7,500MB/s, with 200GB and 14,000MB/s options
  • CPU5.0GHz, with 5.2GHz+ and 5.6GHz+ upgrades
  • Locations9, one price
  • FilesFile Manager and SFTP for worlds and mods
  • BackupsOffsite copies of the last 7 days
  • ProtectionDDoS filtering
  • Support24/7 tickets

Optional upgrades

Added at checkout, billed with your plan.

  • Memory AllocationTiers up to 32GBtiered
  • Hard DiskNVMe 14,000Mb/sfrom €5.82
  • CPU Clock Speed5.2GHz+ - 5.6GHz+from €5.82
  • CPU PriorityHigh CPU Priority - Realtime CPU Priorityfrom €5.82
  • VIP Ticket Priority SupportPrioritise My Ticket Pleasefrom €2.32
  • Disk SpaceUp to 120GB - Up to 200GBfrom €8.16

Plans include 5GB, 8GB or 12GB of RAM as listed. Tiers up to 32GB, faster CPUs and more disk are optional on the order form. The order form also sells 30, 50 and 70 to 100 slots. Every location costs the same. Prices read from our order form on 23 October 2026. Taxes, if any, are shown at checkout.

Built for colonies

Colony Survival Server Hosting Features

What a hosted colony server gives your group.

The colony keeps going

Anyone can log in and carry on, without waiting for the person who hosts from their PC.

Room to grow

Buy the slot count you need, from a handful of friends to a full community.

Your mod list

Run the same mods for everyone on one server.

Safe worlds

Snapshots before risky changes and seven days of offsite backups.

DDoS protection

Attack traffic is filtered before it reaches the world.

Fast cores

5.0GHz CPUs for pathfinding colonists and monsters across a busy map.

Before the first banner

Colony Survival Server Hosting Essentials Before You Order

Things to settle before your first banner goes down.

  1. Shared or separate colonies

    Decide whether friends co-own one colony or each runs their own and trades.

  2. Agree the mod list

    Players need the same mods as the server. Pick them before the world starts.

  3. Same game version

    Colony Survival is updated often. Keep the server and players on the same build, including beta branches.

  4. Set a password if private

    Since 0.17, servers appear in the browser automatically, so lock a friends-only world with a password.

Answers

Colony Survival Server Hosting Questions

Answers to what colony builders ask us most.

Getting started

How quickly is my Colony Survival server ready?

It is created automatically when payment clears, and your login details arrive by email. Most groups are in their world within minutes.

How do players find my server?

Since update 0.17 on 25 June 2026, servers connect to the in-game server browser automatically, without port forwarding. Players can also use the address from your panel.

Which location should I pick?

Run the ping test on this page from your own PC and choose the lowest result for most of your group. Every location costs the same.

Playing together

Can friends share one colony?

Yes. Steam describes sharing ownership of a single colony with friends, or building separate colonies and trading items and science.

Can Mac and Linux players join?

Yes. Steam lists Windows, macOS and Linux versions and cross-platform multiplayer.

Can I run mods on the server?

Yes. Upload server mods with SFTP or the File Manager and restart. Every player needs the same mods.

Can I play a Workshop world?

Yes. Download the world, upload it to the server's world folder and restart.

The game

Is Colony Survival still in Early Access?

Yes. It entered Early Access on 16 June 2017 and is still updated, most recently with 0.18, the Split Screen update, in August 2026.

Does split screen work on a dedicated server?

Split Screen is a local feature for two players on one PC. The pair can join a server together like any other player.

Plans and billing

How much does Colony Survival server hosting cost?

The 10 slot plan is €6.77 a month with the free 5GB memory tier. The price is the same at every location.

Why do bigger plans have more RAM?

More players usually means more colonies, colonists and monsters at once, so 40 and 60 slots add memory.

Can I cancel at any time?

Yes. Monthly billing has no minimum term, and longer terms cost less per month.

The complete guide · 4 min read

Colony Survival Server Hosting: The Complete Guide

A guide for whoever runs the group's Colony Survival world: how multiplayer works in the game, what changed for servers in 2026, choosing a plan, setting up rules and mods, moving a world in and looking after it over a long campaign.

By , Owner, Gaming DeluxePublished · Updated

In this guide
  1. How Colony Survival Plays
  2. Multiplayer and Why a Dedicated Server Helps
  3. What Changed for Servers in 2026
  4. Choosing Slots and Memory
  5. Rules, Settings and Difficulty
  6. Mods, Workshop Worlds and Blueprints
  7. Looking After a Long Campaign
  8. What to Compare Before You Rent a Colony Survival Server
  9. Colony Survival Server Glossary
  10. Colony Survival Server Help and Next Steps

How Colony Survival Plays

Colony Survival is a first-person strategy game made by a two-person team. You plant a banner in a voxel world, recruit colonists and give them jobs: farmers, miners, guards and many more as your science advances. Every night monsters attack, and the more colonists you have, the more come for you. Walls, moats, forts and guards keep them out.

Progress runs through an extensive science system that starts in the Stone Age with slingers and ends with gunpowder weapons, gliders, printing presses and rails. Resources for the later stages sit in special locations, so colonies grow outposts on mountaintops and in swamps, connected by gliders and rail lines.

Multiplayer and Why a Dedicated Server Helps

Colony Survival lets you launch a co-op game from the main menu, and its developers built the game so that even single-player runs on a server and client split. That makes it well suited to a dedicated server, which Steam describes as the advanced option for more complex setups.

  • The world never sleeps: colonists keep the same world whenever any of you log in.
  • One colony or many: share ownership of a single colony, or build separate ones and trade.
  • No single host: nobody has to keep their PC on for the others.
  • Backups off your PC: the world lives on our servers with offsite copies.

What Changed for Servers in 2026

Hosting used to be the tricky part of Colony Survival. Pipliz said as much in May 2026, before update 0.17 changed it: the developers now run a cloud service that talks to every server people host, feeds the server browser and lets players connect without being Steam friends or setting up port forwarding. 0.17 shipped on 25 June 2026 with that change and a new quests tab.

Update 0.18 on 21 August 2026 added split screen for two players on one PC, and Remote Play Together lets a friend take part without owning the game. Small patches followed, bringing the build to 0.18.0.9 by mid-September. Because the game updates often, keep your server on the same version as your players; if a beta branch is involved, agree it as a group first.

Choosing Slots and Memory

Most groups are a few friends, and the 10 slot plan covers them. Choose 20 if everyone wants their own colony, 40 for a community world and 60 for a large public server with mods.

Our plans at a glance
PlanMemoryBest for
10 Slots5GBOne shared colony
20 Slots5GBSeveral colonies trading
40 Slots8GBCommunity worlds with outposts
60 Slots12GBLarge modded publics

The load on a Colony Survival server grows with what is happening in the world: colonists working, monsters pathfinding around your walls, trains on the rails. If a server feels slow late in a campaign, move up a memory tier from the client area; the world keeps its progress.

Rules, Settings and Difficulty

Colony Survival comes with lots of settings. Turn monsters off if your group wants to build in peace, or let them spawn during the day for a hard challenge. Cheats exist for quick colonists, blocks or research, which some build servers enable and most survival servers leave off.

  1. Open the server settings in the panel's File Manager.
  2. Set the server name, a password if it is private, and the player limit.
  3. Choose the monster and difficulty settings your group agreed on.
  4. Save and restart, then have one player join to check everything looks right.

Mods, Workshop Worlds and Blueprints

Pipliz built Colony Survival to be as moddable as possible and works with mod authors directly. Mods can add items and jobs, and even render their own buttons and menus. The game's Mod Manager publishes worlds and mods to the Steam Workshop, and the developers run regular contests for worlds and blueprints.

To run mods on your server, upload them with SFTP and restart; every player needs the same mods installed. To play a Workshop world together, download it, upload it to the server's world folder and restart. Blueprints, added in update 0.15, are shared by the community on the developers' Discord.

Looking After a Long Campaign

Colony Survival worlds can run for months. Take a snapshot before every game update and every new mod, so a broken world is one restore away. We keep offsite backups of the last 7 days as a second safety net.

Restart the server at a quiet hour each day, give co-admins their own sub user login rather than your account, and keep a copy of your world on your own PC now and then. If you are moving from another host, download the world and settings there, upload them here, and the server carries on from where you left off.

What to Compare Before You Rent a Colony Survival Server

The details that decide how the server feels after a month.

  1. File access for modsMods and Workshop worlds need SFTP and a file manager.
  2. Memory that scalesBigger worlds and more players need more RAM.
  3. Version supportAsk how quickly the host handles new Colony Survival builds.
  4. Restorable backupsYou should be able to roll back without a ticket.
  5. Location and pingTest from your own PC before you buy.
  6. Billing termsCheck setup fees and minimum terms.

Colony Survival Server Glossary

Banner
The marker you plant to found a colony.
Colonist
A worker you recruit and give a job, from farmer to guard.
Science
The tech tree that unlocks jobs, blocks, upgrades and weapons.
Outpost
A smaller settlement near special resources, linked to your colony.
Overseer's Desk
The building that unlocks the top-down view, added in 0.15.
Mod Manager
The in-game menu for mods and for publishing worlds to the Workshop.
Split Screen
Two players on one PC, added in update 0.18.

Colony Survival Server Help and Next Steps

Links worth keeping.

How this guide was made: researched from Colony Survival's Steam store page and Pipliz's Friday blogs and update posts on Steam, drafted with AI assistance, checked against our live order form for every plan, price and location, and reviewed by Matthew Griffin before publishing. Pipliz publishes no official player limit for dedicated servers, so we do not claim one. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

Sources, checked 23 October 2026:

  1. Colony Survival on Steam (Pipliz; Early Access since 16 June 2017; Windows, macOS, Linux; cross-platform multiplayer; co-op, shared colonies, advanced server tool, mod support; 2GB RAM minimum)
  2. Pipliz, Friday Blog 268 (29 May 2026: cloud server, server browser, no port forwarding) and Update 0.17 Quests and Counters (25 June 2026)
  3. Pipliz, Friday Blog 270, Split Screen Update 0.18.0 (21 August 2026) and Friday Blog 271 (11 September 2026, 0.18.0.9)
  4. Pipliz, Friday Blog 267, Update 0.16 (17 April 2026), Friday Blog 262, Update 0.15 (28 November 2025) and Friday Blog 260 (25 September 2025, server-client split and mod menus)
  5. Gaming Deluxe order form, Colony Survival (slots 10 to 100)

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