Rend Server Hosting

Rend in 2026: What You Are Getting

Rend is a survival game from Frostkeep Studios, set in a harsh world drawn from Norse myth. Players build strongholds, tame brutal creatures, gather rare resources and artifacts, and grow their characters through deep talent trees and skill systems. It entered Steam Early Access on 31 July 2018 and launched in full on 29 March 2019.

Over those eight months Frostkeep shipped more than 50 patches and nine major content updates: new game modes, artifact weapons, biomes, creatures, player abilities and siege weapons. At launch the studio, then 18 developers, said Patch 9 was the last planned content update and that it would only add more if enough new players kept buying the game.

That did not happen. Today the Steam store says Rend is no longer available, and the official rendgame.com and frostkeep.com sites no longer load. What remains is a complete, stable game that people who bought it can still play, and a dedicated server is the way to play it together.

Who a Rend Server Is For

Be clear about this before ordering: a Rend server only helps players who already own the game. Steam no longer sells it, so you cannot point new friends at the store page. As a rule Steam keeps delisted games in the libraries of the people who bought them, so check that each player can still install it.

• Old groups who played Rend in 2018 and 2019 and want their world back.
• Small private communities who enjoy a game nobody else is playing and want it to themselves.
• Players who prefer PvE and want Exploration mode without strangers.
• Collectors of survival games who want to keep a finished one playable.

Classic, Exploration and Faction War

Rend began as a team game. In what Frostkeep later named Faction War, players join one of three factions, Revenant, Order or Conclave, build a shared stronghold and race to ascend by collecting spirits. Reckoning events make faction bases vulnerable to waves of creatures and to enemy attack for a short, set time, so factions have to plan ahead.

In late 2018 Frostkeep added two modes without factions or shielded strongholds. Everyone starts alone as a survivor of Ragnarok and decides whether to team up. There is no ascension win condition and no Reckoning, which suits a persistent world.

The World, the Map and Control Points

Rend's world is built around the great tree Yggdrasil, which players used as a shared north, with biomes such as Hearthhome, Stagswood, Myrkfen, the Highlands and Dreadveil around it. Creatures from the Frabbit and the Stag to the Roc and the Glutt fill those lands, and many can be tamed.

Patch 9 added an interactive world map: it opens from the menu, zooms and pans, shows strongholds and Control Points on revealed areas, and lets group members place and share custom markers. Respawn and teleport choices also moved onto that map.

Control Points are the contested sites that reward whoever holds them, and Patch 9 redesigned their rewards. On a Classic server they give groups a reason to leave their walls; on an Exploration server they are simply part of the landscape.

Slots and Memory for a Rend World

Frostkeep designed Classic and Exploration around persistent 60-player servers, and our order form sells any count from 20 to 60. Most private groups need far fewer slots than that. A circle of friends is comfortable on 20; a small community that wants rivals for Classic play might want 40.

There is no official memory figure for the Rend server, so our plans use our own sizing: 8GB on 20 slots, one tier more on each bigger plan, up to 20GB on 60. Strongholds, tamed creatures and loot all add to what the server keeps loaded, and the memory graph in the panel shows when a world is getting close to its tier.

You can change slots and memory from the client area at any time without touching the world, so it is sensible to start small and grow if your group does.

Setting Up Your First Night

A Rend server for a private group is simple to start, but a little planning saves arguments later. Agree the mode first: switching from Exploration to Classic after people have built is a quick way to lose friends. Then decide whether the server is password protected, and who besides you can restart it.

Rend rewards working together. Strongholds take time and materials, tamed creatures need looking after and the best artifacts sit in dangerous places, so a group that splits the jobs gets further. On a Classic server, agree whether offline raids are fair and how bounties should be used before anyone has something to lose.

• Confirm every player can still install Rend from their Steam library.
• Agree the mode with your group, and check with support that the server offers it, before the first login.
• Pick the location with the best ping for the group.
• Give one trusted player a sub-user login for restarts.
• Take a first snapshot once the opening base is up.

Protecting a World No Developer Will Rescue

With an active game, a bad bug gets a patch. With Rend, nobody is coming. That makes backups more important than usual: they are the only way to undo a mistake, a griefing spree or a corrupted save.

1. Take a snapshot in the Backup Manager before any change to settings or files.
2. Schedule a daily restart at a quiet hour.
3. Download a copy of the world over SFTP every few weeks and keep it somewhere safe.
4. Write down your settings, so you can rebuild the server exactly if you ever need to.

The upside of a finished game is stability. Rend has had no updates since 2019, so the version your players run will not change under them, and a setup that works today will still work next year.

What to Compare Before You Rent a Rend Server

For a game without a developer, the host matters more.

1. Backups you controlOn-demand snapshots and file downloads are your only safety net. Check you can make and restore them yourself.
2. File accessA file manager and SFTP let you keep your own copy of the world.
3. Memory that fitsCheck what each plan includes rather than paying for more than your group needs.
4. Locations with a ping testMelee and archery depend on latency. Test before you choose.
5. DDoS protectionFiltering should come as standard, even for a small private server.
6. Billing termsCompare monthly against 3, 6 and 12 month prices, and look for setup fees.

Rend Server Glossary

Classic

Rend's factionless PvP mode on a persistent server.

Exploration

The PvE mode: no attacks on other players or their bases.

Faction War

The original mode, with three factions racing to ascend.

Revenant, Order, Conclave

The three factions of Faction War.

Reckoning

A timed event that leaves faction bases open to creature waves and enemy attack.

Control Point

A contested site on the map that rewards whoever holds it.

Yggdrasil

The great tree at the centre of the world, used as a landmark.

Patch 9

The launch update of 29 March 2019 and Rend's last content update.

Rend Server Help and Next Steps

What is left of the official sources, and our own help.

• Rend on SteamThe store page (no longer for sale) and the developer's news.
• Rend news on SteamEvery patch up to the launch letter.
• Gaming Deluxe control panelWhat the panel does and how to log in.
• Contact support24/7 help with setup and backups.