🔥 ENSHROUDED 1.0 IS HERE: servers rebuilt for 1.0, every setting in the panel, and a year of any game on the new Flex plan.
HostEnshrouded Server Hosting
Order an Enshrouded dedicated server and it's usually running about five minutes later, on the 1.0 build, with every setting the game has in the panel instead of a JSON file. Or take the year. Any of 17 games on one server, three of them parked at once, swap between them with no waiting, for $9.99 a month paid yearly.
Not sure yet? Talk to us before you buy, or read the Enshrouded guides.
Two ways to pay for the same server
Same server either way. The only question is whether you want a month or a year.
$119.88 billed today for twelve months. Month to month would come to $191.88.
- Three freeze slots: park up to three different games and swap between them
- No waiting between swaps, one hour between restores
- Any of the 17 games in our library. Start with Enshrouded, swap whenever
- Renews at the same price, no second-year jump
- New services only
See the 17 games you can swap to
*$2 surcharge for Los Angeles
Yearly is preselected on the order form. We add your two extra freeze slots after checkout, so skip the slot add-on there.
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6GB RAM
- 6GB to 16GB DDR4 RAM, configurable
- 2 dedicated Ryzen vCPU, add more as the group grows
- 25GB NVMe disk, expandable
- No player-slot pricing. Keen's 16-player cap is the only cap
- Four locations, US & EU
- 12 backup slots, one taken every 2 hours
- GameSwap included, with one free freeze slot
You'll find cheaper entry tiers for this game, and they're worth reading closely. Most of this category sells Enshrouded by the player slot, four or ten at a time, or in RAM tiers that step up as your group grows. Neither number is the one that matters.
We measured what the game actually uses on our own 1.0 server. The numbers are below, and they are why this plan is sold on cores rather than gigabytes or seats.
How to size an Enshrouded server
Keen's own dedicated server documentation puts the server at about 4.4GB idle, up to 100MB more per player, and under 6GB in total for a full sixteen. That is the developer's number, and it fits inside this plan. Our own 1.0 server on the new image ran lighter still, between 1.0 and 1.3 GiB with players on a fresh world. Either way, memory is not what you run out of.
6GB covers the cap
Keen's figure for a full server is under 6GB. Ours used a fraction of that on a young world. Bases and explored terrain grow it over time, which is what the headroom is for, and you can add RAM later without rebuilding the world.
Cores are what you size
Enshrouded does two kinds of work. The world simulation wants one fast core, and our Ryzen fleet has that covered. Everything each player brings with them, movement, combat, terrain streaming in, spreads across the other cores, and that is the part that grows with your group. On our fleet, two dedicated cores run three players comfortably. Past three, add a core for every couple of extra players. That is a rule of thumb from our own servers, not a measurement.
Start at two cores
Buy the base plan. If the group grows or it ever feels tight, open a ticket and we will trial the upgrade with you before you pay for it. Adding cores or RAM doesn't rebuild the world. The 16-player cap is Keen's, not ours, and we won't quote a core count for a full server until we have run one.
What we measured, for the record: our 1.0 server on a 6GB, 2 vCPU allocation idled at 1.2 GiB, sat between 1.0 and 1.3 GiB with players connected, and ran at roughly 110 to 140% of two cores in normal play with spikes to the ceiling in combat. Fresh world, small group, so treat it as a floor, not a forecast.
Every setting is in the panel now. This time they apply.
The old Enshrouded setup showed you a server name and a password field and quietly wrote neither to the config. The 1.0 rebuild maps 45 settings into the panel and every one of them lands in the server's config file. Change a value, restart, done.
Five presets, 38 dials
Default, Relaxed, Hard, Survival or Custom, using Keen's own profiles. Pick Custom and 38 sliders open up: XP split three ways, enemy and boss health tuned separately, day and night length, weapon durability, loot stacks, plant growth, weather. One thing to know, said once: the sliders only count when the preset is Custom.
Three passwords, not one
Admin, Friend and Guest, each with its own password and permissions, plus reserved slots so an admin can always get into a full server. Leave Guest empty and the server is public. Changing a role password applies through a reinstall that keeps your world and saves. We say that here so it doesn't surprise you there.
Boots clean
Enshrouded's server is a Windows binary, and under Proton it used to come up about one cold start in ten. We rebuilt the image for 1.0 and it has come up every time since. Updates apply on restart. Leave that on, because a 1.0 client can't join an outdated server.
Ports and bad values handled
The query port is written from your allocation, max players stops at the game's cap of 16, and every multiplier is bounded, so a bad value is an error in the panel rather than a server that silently won't start. Voice and text chat are toggles too.
Finish Embervale. Park it. Come back to it.
Enshrouded is a game groups finish. You push the Shroud back, clear the last dungeon on the map, hit the cap, and the Discord goes quiet for a while. Everywhere else, that's a cancellation, and the world goes with it.
Here it's a freeze. GameSwap archives the whole thing off your server, world, settings, passwords, all of it, and something else runs on the box in the meantime. When someone posts “second run?”, you restore it and the Flame Altar is exactly where you left it.
Every server gets one free freeze slot. Flex gives you three, and no wait between swaps.
What you can swap to today
Seventeen games in the library right now. Not seeing yours? Ask, we take requests.
- Abiotic Factor
- Counter-Strike 2
- Enshrouded
- Factorio
- Foundry (the factory game, not the VTT)
- Hytale
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Minecraft, Java, modded and Bedrock
- Palworld
- Project Zomboid
- Satisfactory
- Sons of the Forest
- Star Rupture
- Tower Unite Condo
- Valheim, vanilla or BepInEx
- Windrose
- Vintage Story
- Request a game
The flame doesn't go out because you went to play something else.
The Nitro Panel
Based on Pterodactyl.io, our control panel is packed with features and style, helping you control your server with ease and precision.
Four Locations
We have three locations throughout the United states, and one based in Falkenstein, Germany. Check your ping against our locations to decide on which is best for your server.
Getting started is easy
Select a Plan
Choose the right plan for your gaming session. This may be based on the number of players joining your server or the amount of resources the game and you will need.
Choose a Location
Depending on where you and your friends are playing from, select a location that is best for you. You can easily check your ping before buying to see the ping time of the connection from your location.
Select a billing Cycle
Choose to pay monthly, or receive a discount on quarterly, semi-annual, or yearly payment plans
Review the Specs
Review the options for Port, Memory and CPU Cores and select different options to customize the server for your gaming experience. Lots of friends joining you? You may want to increase the RAM accordingly.
Pick a Name and Complete your transaction
Name your server so your friends can find and connect to your game easily. Complete your purchase and you will receive an email within minutes with links to your server and Nitro Panel
Customize on the fly
Need to add another Gig of RAM, or add an extra CPU core? You can add/remove resources to your server at any time through our Billing Portal. No server restart needed!
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Questions?
How much does an Enshrouded server cost?
$15.99/mo for a 6GB Enshrouded dedicated server with 2 dedicated cores and 25GB of NVMe, billed monthly. Or $9.99/mo paid for the year ($119.88 today) on the Flex plan, which also brings three GameSwap freeze slots and no waiting between swaps. No per-slot pricing, and no charge for backups, settings or file access. Los Angeles costs $2 more.
What is the Flex plan, and what do the three freeze slots do?
A year of any of the seventeen games in our library on one server, paid up front at $9.99 a month and renewing at the same price, and we take requests for games we don't carry yet. It comes with three GameSwap freeze slots instead of one. A freeze slot parks a game: its world, settings and files are archived off your server until you restore them. Three slots means three different games parked at once, and any paid slot removes the wait between swaps. New services only. The 7-day refund applies.
How much RAM does an Enshrouded server need?
Less than the category tells you. Keen's own figure is about 4.4GB idle plus up to 100MB per player, under 6GB for a full 16-player server, and our own 1.0 server ran between 1.0 and 1.3 GiB with players on a fresh world. The 6GB on this plan covers the cap with headroom for a built-up world. What actually decides performance is CPU: on our fleet, two dedicated cores run three players comfortably, and past that you add a core for every couple of extra players. If you're unsure, start at two cores and ask support to trial an upgrade with you. Adding cores or RAM doesn't rebuild the world.
How many players can an Enshrouded server support?
Sixteen. That is Keen's cap on the game, not ours, and the panel stops you setting more. We don't sell player slots, so there is no eight-person tier and no upsell when a tenth friend wants in. A bigger group needs cores, not gigabytes: two cores run three players comfortably, then roughly a core for every couple more. We haven't run a full 16-player server yet, so we won't quote a core count for one. If you want to test a bigger group first, ask support to trial the upgrade with you.
How do I set up an Enshrouded dedicated server?
Order the plan, pick a location, and the server deploys itself on the 1.0 build in about five minutes. In the Nitro Panel, name it, pick a difficulty preset (the 38 custom dials only count when the preset is Custom) and set the Admin, Friend and Guest passwords. Leave Guest empty and the server is public. Password changes apply through Settings, then Reinstall Server, which keeps your world and saves. Then find the server by name in the in-game browser.
Can I play my single-player character on a multiplayer Enshrouded server?
Yes. Enshrouded character saves transfer automatically between single-player and multiplayer. You can bring any character into a server and switch back and forth freely. Your character level, items, and skill tree progress carry over every time.
Does quest progression carry over in Enshrouded multiplayer?
Quest progression in Enshrouded multiplayer works per-character, not per-world. If you complete quests on a server, that progress stays with your character. You can continue the same quest lines when playing solo or on a different server. Boss kills and Flame Altar upgrades are tied to the world save, so those remain on the server they were completed on.
How do backups work, and how many do I get?
Every server comes with 12 backup slots and a backup job that runs every 2 hours, set up automatically when the server deploys. Twelve slots on a two-hour schedule is a rolling day of restore points, and you can change the schedule or restore any of them yourself from the Nitro Panel. Backups only run while the server is running, and they are stored off-site, so losing the machine doesn't mean losing the world.
Can I host my own Enshrouded dedicated server?
Yes. Keen publishes the dedicated server tool on Steam, and it is a fine option if you are happy with the world only being online while that machine is, and with handing your home IP to the people joining. What you pay us for is a box that stays up, backups that happen without you remembering, settings in a panel instead of a JSON file, and a person to talk to when it won't start.
What is your refund policy?
Our game servers have a 7 day refund policy, and it applies to the Flex plan too. If you're not happy with the service you can cancel within the first 7 days and get a full refund. Refunds aren't automatic, so open a ticket with us, either in our Discord or through the client portal, and a person will sort it out. You need to request it within the first month of service. Services that have been in use for a month or have already renewed aren't eligible.