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Palworld Dedicated server Quick Setup

This guide will help you get setup with hosting your Palworld Dedicated server on Docker! This Palworld server quick setup will only take a couple of minutes and you'll have a working server.

Xbox Dedicated Server

important

Looking to host a server for Xbox players? Follow this guide here!

Prerequisites

  • Virtualization enabled in the BIOS/UEFI
  • Must have Docker installed

Server Requirements

ResourceMinimumRecommended
CPU4 cores4+ cores
RAM16GBRecommend over 32GB for stable operation
Storage8GB20GB

Docker Compose

This repository includes an example docker-compose.yml file you can use to set up your server.

services:
palworld:
image: thijsvanloef/palworld-server-docker:latest
restart: unless-stopped
container_name: palworld-server
stop_grace_period: 30s # Set to however long you are willing to wait for the container to gracefully stop
ports:
- 8211:8211/udp
- 27015:27015/udp
# - 8212:8212/tcp # Port for REST API if REST_API_ENABLED: true
environment:
PUID: 1000
PGID: 1000
PORT: 8211 # Optional but recommended
PLAYERS: 16 # Optional but recommended
SERVER_PASSWORD: "worldofpals" # Optional but recommended
MULTITHREADING: true
RCON_ENABLED: true
RCON_PORT: 25575
TZ: "UTC"
ADMIN_PASSWORD: "adminPasswordHere"
COMMUNITY: false # Enable this if you want your server to show up in the community servers tab, USE WITH SERVER_PASSWORD!
SERVER_NAME: "palworld-server-docker by Thijs van Loef"
SERVER_DESCRIPTION: "palworld-server-docker by Thijs van Loef"
ALLOW_CONNECT_PLATFORM: "Steam" # Defaults to "Steam" if not set, set this to "Xbox" if you want to host a server for Xbox players. CROSSPLAY BETWEEN XBOX-STEAM IS NOT YET SUPPORTED
volumes:
- ./palworld:/palworld/

As an alternative, you can copy the .env.example file to a new file called .env file.

Modify it to your needs, check out the environment variables section to check the correct values.

Modify your docker-compose.yml to this:

services:
palworld:
image: thijsvanloef/palworld-server-docker:latest
restart: unless-stopped
container_name: palworld-server
stop_grace_period: 30s # Set to however long you are willing to wait for the container to gracefully stop
ports:
- 8211:8211/udp
- 27015:27015/udp
# - 8212:8212/tcp # Port for REST API if REST_API_ENABLED: true
env_file:
- .env
volumes:
- ./palworld:/palworld/

Starting the server

Use docker compose up -d in the same folder as the docker-compose.yml to start the server in the background

Stopping the server

Use docker compose stop in the same folder as the docker-compose.yml to stop the server

Use docker compose down --rmi all in the same folder as the docker-compose.yml to stop and remove the server and remove the docker image from your computer

Docker Run

docker run -d \
--name palworld-server \
-p 8211:8211/udp \
-p 27015:27015/udp \
-v ./palworld:/palworld/ \
-e PUID=1000 \
-e PGID=1000 \
-e PORT=8211 \
-e PLAYERS=16 \
-e MULTITHREADING=true \
-e RCON_ENABLED=true \
-e RCON_PORT=25575 \
-e TZ=UTC \
-e ADMIN_PASSWORD="adminPasswordHere" \
-e SERVER_PASSWORD="worldofpals" \
-e COMMUNITY=false \
-e SERVER_NAME="palworld-server-docker by Thijs van Loef" \
-e SERVER_DESCRIPTION="palworld-server-docker by Thijs van Loef" \
-e ALLOW_CONNECT_PLATFORM: "Steam" \
--restart unless-stopped \
--stop-timeout 30 \
thijsvanloef/palworld-server-docker:latest

As an alternative, you can copy the .env.example file to a new file called .env file.

Modify it to your needs, check out the environment variables section to check the correct values.

Change your docker run command to this:

docker run -d \
--name palworld-server \
-p 8211:8211/udp \
-p 27015:27015/udp \
-v ./palworld:/palworld/ \
--env-file .env \
--restart unless-stopped \
--stop-timeout 30 \
thijsvanloef/palworld-server-docker:latest