SkyFactory 4 Server Hosting
Pick a plan and you are in the game in under a minute. We automatically install SkyFactory 4 and its Forge loader before first boot. New releases are one-click updates from the panel.
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Everything Your SkyFactory 4 Server Needs
Every plan ships with the hardware and tooling a modded server actually uses, so SkyFactory 4 runs the way it should.
SkyFactory 4 is preinstalled before first boot. Update to new releases from the panel in one click.
Every major loader, every version. Switch loaders without rebuilding your server.
Real humans who run modded servers themselves. No ticket roulette.
Always-on filtering keeps your server reachable, even during an attack.
Every server runs on the Ryzen 9 9950X, no exceptions. the only solution for heavy modpacks.
Chunks load fast even with 200+ mods. Every node runs on NVMe SSDs.
What Is a SkyFactory 4 Server?
SkyFactory 4 starts you on a tree above the void. Darkosto rebuilt resource gathering around Sky Orchards, so instead of sieving gravel you grow bonsai resource trees whose leaves drop ore acorns and whose logs drop ore resin, which the pack turns into ore amber and then into ingots. The 4.2.4 release ships more than 30 world types, from the classic tree on dirt to Skygrid, Compactsky, Lostcities and Cave Dimension, each with its own recipes and advancements.
Progression rides the vanilla advancement system rather than an achievement book, so the game tracks what you have done and suggests what is next without forcing a quest line on you. Prestige is the optional layer: mods, items and mechanics stay locked until you spend points, which you earn from advancements or from the Parabox, a time-traveling box that generates them. Prestige is per player, and the pack's own server guide warns that single player progress does not transfer onto a server.
Skyblock keeps worldgen cheap, since there is almost no terrain to generate. The bill arrives with automation instead. SkyFactory 4 bundles 202 mods including Applied Energistics 2, Mekanism, Industrial Foregoing, XNet and Mystical Agriculture, and a mature island moves hundreds of items and fluids every tick. All of it runs on single-threaded Forge 14.23.5 for 1.12.2 under Java 8, so heap size and tick time decide how it feels far more than core count does.
SkyFactory 4 suits groups who would rather build machines than fight things, and swapping the world type gives a stale server a genuinely different restart. Two server details catch people out. The world type comes from generator-settings plus level-type in server.properties and has to be chosen before first boot, and prestige lives in prestige.cfg, which every pack update overwrites. Together Forever handles teams, and closing the Parabox loop needs a server restart to finish.
How Much RAM Does a SkyFactory 4 Server Need?
4 GB before anyone joins, then roughly 0.2 GB per player online.
Exactly the pack's 4 GB base with no player allowance on top. Fine for one person poking at a tree farm, short on heap as soon as a second island starts running machines.
Sized for 10 players. Headroom for a full Sky Orchards setup and a few processing lines without the heap sitting at its ceiling all session.
Sized for 20 players. The step to take once several islands each run their own Applied Energistics network, Mekanism gear and mob farms, which is where 1.12.2 heap pressure shows up.
Sized from SkyFactory 4's 4 GB floor plus 0.2 GB per concurrent player. You can move between these tiers from the panel at any time, prorated to the day.
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From Checkout to Playing in Minutes
No FTP, no config files, no wiki tabs. The whole setup is handled for you, and every modpack we host works the same way.
Pick a location, billing cycle, and player count. The configurator recommends the right RAM so you never overpay.
The moment payment clears, the loader and modpack are installed and the server boots itself.
Your IP is waiting in the panel. Share it, play, and resize or swap modpacks later without losing your world.
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Every pack works the same way: preinstalled before first boot, one-click updates, and free swaps between packs.
Frequently Asked Questions
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