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Core Keeper server hosting
Wake in a vast cavern beneath the surface and dig your way out. Mine ore, farm, fish, cook and craft, fight giant bosses, and build a base in an underground world that keeps revealing new biomes.
- Up to 100 players
- Runs well on 4 GB
- Backed up every day
- Hosted in Europe (Falkenstein)
Pick a size
Every size from 2 GB runs Core Keeper. Bigger sizes suit more players, and the price per GB is the same for every game.
2 GB
Suits up to 8 players 2 GB comes with 1 vCPU and 16 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for a typical world, not a limit. The server accepts up to 100 players, set in its settings.
$5.98/mo$0.008/h
Choose 2 GB for a Core Keeper server3 GB
Suits 5–15 players 3 GB comes with 1.5 vCPU and 24 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for a typical world, not a limit. The server accepts up to 100 players, set in its settings.
$8.97/mo$0.012/h
Choose 3 GB for a Core Keeper server4 GB
Recommended
Suits 8–20 players 4 GB comes with 2 vCPU and 32 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for a typical world, not a limit. The server accepts up to 100 players, set in its settings.
$11.96/mo$0.016/h
Choose 4 GB for a Core Keeper server6 GB
Suits 15–30 players 6 GB comes with 3 vCPU and 48 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for a typical world, not a limit. The server accepts up to 100 players, set in its settings.
$17.94/mo$0.025/h
Choose 6 GB for a Core Keeper server8 GB
Suits 20–40 players 8 GB comes with 4 vCPU and 64 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for a typical world, not a limit. The server accepts up to 100 players, set in its settings.
$23.92/mo$0.033/h
Choose 8 GB for a Core Keeper server10 GB
Suits 25–45 players 10 GB comes with 4 vCPU and 80 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for a typical world, not a limit. The server accepts up to 100 players, set in its settings.
$29.90/mo$0.041/h
Choose 10 GB for a Core Keeper server12 GB
Suits 25–50 players 12 GB comes with 4 vCPU and 96 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for a typical world, not a limit. The server accepts up to 100 players, set in its settings.
$35.88/mo$0.049/h
Choose 12 GB for a Core Keeper server16 GB
Suits 35–70 players 16 GB comes with 4 vCPU and 100 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for a typical world, not a limit. The server accepts up to 100 players, set in its settings.
$47.84/mo$0.066/h
Choose 16 GB for a Core Keeper server
Need more room? Extra storage is $0.10 per GB a month. Prices excl. VAT/sales tax. EU customers also pay their country's VAT (e.g. $3.74/GB at 25% in Sweden).
You pay by the hour from your credit while the server exists, even when it's stopped. Delete it any time to stop paying.
What you get
Friends join with the address and a password, no Game ID needed. Pick a normal, hard, creative or casual world, and a seed if you want a specific one.
- Runs well on 4 GB, starts at 2 GB
- Room for 8 players, up to 100 in the settings
- Always the latest Core Keeper
- World modes: Normal, hard, creative or casual
- Daily off-site backups, and one-click backups whenever you want Restore any backup from the server page. Backups don't use your server's disk.
- Give friends their own access to start, stop or manage the server, without sharing your password
- Schedule restarts and other tasks, like in-game announcements and backups
- If the game crashes, it starts again on its own
- Get a Discord or email alert when your server crashes, starts or stops
More ways to run it
- Your world is yours: download a backup file any time
Getting started
Bring your world
Already playing somewhere else? Upload your saves and files as a .zip and we add them to Core Keeper's files, with a backup first.
More details
Stop the server first, then use World in the Settings tab. Files with the same name are replaced and nothing else is deleted. You can download your world as a backup file any time.
How your friends join
Copy your server's address, port and join password from the server page.
In Core Keeper, choose Join Game, then connect with an IP address.
Enter the address, port and join password.
More details
Default port 27016/udp. The address on the server page already has the right one.
Questions about Core Keeper servers
Do players need a Game ID?
No. Players join with the address, the port and the join password.
What is the join password?
A password every player needs to join. Set your own, or leave it empty and we make one.
Can I change the world mode later?
Not for an existing world. To play another mode, start a new world.
More details
The world mode applies when the world is first created.
Is the world backed up?
Yes, every day, and you can make one yourself whenever you want.
More details
Restore any backup from the server page. Backups don't use your server's disk.
Can I bring my single-player world?
Yes. Bring your world: upload your saves and files as a .zip and we add them to the game's files, with a backup first.
More details
Stop the server first, then use World in the Settings tab. Files with the same name are replaced, and nothing else is deleted. You can also use the Files tab, or Advanced: connect with FileZilla or WinSCP for big saves. You only see the game's own folders, which is where its saves live. You can download your world as a backup file from the server page any time.
Ready to play Core Keeper together?
Pick a size, see the price, and send your friends the address as soon as it's running.