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What changes for your settlement, logistics and trade routes, plus honest answers on console and free servers.","Romestead's Steam page contains one sentence that quietly decides how your group's entire campaign will feel: \"Host your own server or connect peer to peer.\" It reads like a footnote. It is not. That choice changes what your settlement can grow into, who gets to play and when, and whether your trade routes ever actually get finished.\n\nHere is what genuinely separates the two, and how to tell which one your group needs.\n\n## The two ways to play Romestead together\n\nPeer to peer is the built-in option. One person loads their world, everyone else connects to them, and the world lives on that person's machine. Nothing to configure, nothing to pay for. When the host closes the game, the world closes with it.\n\nA dedicated server runs the world on a separate machine that nobody plays on. It stays online whether you are there or not. Players connect to an `IP:PORT` address instead of to a friend, and the save belongs to the server rather than to anyone's Steam account.\n\nRomestead supports up to 8 players either way, so the player cap is not the deciding factor. What changes is when those 8 people are able to play, and what the world is doing while they are gone.\n\n![A Romestead settlement with several players, market stalls and a shrine](https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.doomhosting.com\u002Fblog\u002Fromestead\u002Fsettlement-multiplayer.jpg)\n\n## Why an absent host hurts more in Romestead than in most survival games\n\nPlenty of co-op survival games are perfectly happy on peer to peer, because progress is basically the sum of what players are carrying. Romestead is not built that way.\n\nHeavy resources here are physical objects in the world. Rocks, ores and logs get carried one at a time, or hauled by cart train across the map. Getting a quarry's output back to your town is a real logistics project measured in trips, not in inventory slots. On top of that you recruit artisans, unlock automated production, and eventually set up trade routes between specialised settlements in different biomes.\n\nAll of that is infrastructure, and infrastructure only pays off if it keeps running. On peer to peer it does not. The world only advances while the host has the game open, so your logistics network, your farms and your citizens sit frozen every hour nobody is hosting. Two players who are free on a Tuesday afternoon simply cannot play if the host works days.\n\nThere is a subtler problem too. Romestead scales its difficulty to how many players are in the world. On a host's world that means the challenge shifts around depending on who happens to be online. On a persistent server your group settles into one consistent world instead of renegotiating it every session.\n\n![The Logistics Tent menu, which unlocks automatic transfers between buildings](https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.doomhosting.com\u002Fblog\u002Fromestead\u002Flogistics-tent-automation.jpg)\n\n## What a Romestead server actually is\n\nWorth knowing before you decide, because \"installing a server\" sounds heavier than it turns out to be.\n\nThe dedicated server is not the game build. It is a separate .NET application (`Server.dll`) that Beartwigs ships as its own Steam download, and it runs headless with no graphics at all. Its settings live in a `config.json` file: world name, world size on a 1 to 10 scale, an optional join password, max players up to 8, and whether cheats are enabled.\n\nSelf-hosting that on a spare Windows PC is free and entirely legitimate. You are trading money for the things a datacentre would otherwise absorb: the machine has to stay powered on, your home upload bandwidth becomes everybody else's ping, and you will be forwarding ports and restarting the process yourself after every patch. That is a good trade if you have a spare box and enjoy the tinkering. It is a poor one if the \"spare box\" is the PC you also play on.\n\nRenting skips all of it. On a [Romestead server](\u002Fromestead-server-hosting) from us those same values are fields on the panel's Startup tab rather than lines in a JSON file, and our [Romestead setup guide](\u002Fhelp\u002Farticles\u002Fgetting-started-romestead-server) walks through the first boot.\n\n![Eight players fighting a boss together inside a Romestead dungeon](https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.doomhosting.com\u002Fblog\u002Fromestead\u002Fmultiplayer-boss-fight.jpg)\n\n## Console servers and free servers, answered honestly\n\nTwo questions come up constantly, so here are straight answers.\n\n**Can you rent a Romestead server for PS4 or Xbox?** No, and not because hosting companies are holding out on you. Romestead is a Windows PC release with no console version, so there is no console server to rent. The Autumn Update does add controller support through Steam Input, which is probably where some of the confusion starts, but playing with a controller on PC is not the same thing as a console port.\n\n**Is there a free Romestead server?** Peer to peer is the free option, and for a lot of groups it is genuinely the right one. Self-hosting on hardware you already own is the other. What does not exist is a free always-on hosted server, because somebody pays for that machine and that bandwidth either way. Treat anything advertising otherwise with suspicion.\n\n## The Autumn Update is about to reset everyone anyway\n\nHere is the timing argument, and it is a strong one. The Autumn Update arrives on 31 August 2026, and Beartwigs has been explicit that you need to create a new world to see it. The 30 plus new dungeons, the reworked Challenge Dungeons and the world generation fixes only show up on a fresh map.\n\nSo the entire player base is starting over at the same moment, which makes this the cheapest possible time to change where your world lives. Migrating a beloved 40 hour settlement is a real cost, and if you do want to bring an existing map across, our guide on [uploading your own world](\u002Fhelp\u002Farticles\u002Fhow-to-upload-world-romestead-server) covers it. Starting a new world on a server you actually wanted costs nothing.\n\nIt is also worth noticing where Beartwigs has spent the summer. Version 0.25.2_1 rewrote parts of the network code specifically for connection stability, the Autumn Update adds a network quality indicator, and multiplayer connection fixes have appeared in patch note after patch note. Peer to peer in Romestead is getting steadily better, but it is still a home connection carrying seven other people.\n\n![A torchlit dungeon interior in Romestead](https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.doomhosting.com\u002Fblog\u002Fromestead\u002Fdungeon-interior.jpg)\n\n## So which one should you pick\n\nStay on peer to peer if you play as a group, at the same time, with one reliable person who is always first to log in. It costs nothing and it works.\n\nMove to a dedicated server the moment your group stops being able to play together. Different time zones, different shift patterns, someone who wants to spend a quiet hour on farm logistics while everyone else is asleep, or a settlement ambitious enough that trade routes need to run unattended. That is the point where the world needs to exist without any particular person in it.\n\nAnd if you are still on the fence while the Autumn Update is about to make you build a new world regardless, that is your answer.\n","romestead dedicated server, romestead peer to peer, romestead server hosting, romestead multiplayer, romestead config.json, romestead server ps4 xbox, doomhosting","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.doomhosting.com\u002Fblog\u002Fromestead-peer-to-peer-vs-dedicated-server-hero.jpg","guide","Magnus","Game Server Expert","2026-08-29T09:00:00+00:00","2026-08-29T11:09:51.447298+00:00",{"da":84,"de":85,"en":72,"fi":86,"fr":87,"pl":88,"sv":89},"romestead-peer-to-peer-eller-dedikeret-server","eigenen-romestead-server-erstellen","romestead-peer-to-peer-vai-dedikoitu-palvelin","romestead-peer-to-peer-ou-serveur-dedie","romestead-peer-to-peer-czy-serwer-dedykowany","romestead-peer-to-peer-eller-dedikerad-server",{"name":79,"role":80},"Aug 29, 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