DawnCraft Server Hosting

Because DawnCraft tracks quests, knowledge and attributes per player rather than per team. A Guild Master objective like killing a set number of mobs has to be completed by each person individually, and quest bosses often need to be fought again for each player who still needs the credit. Using the FTB Teams party menu helps where the pack supports it, but the per-player design is intentional.

We allocate 8 GB, which sits inside the author's own recommendation of 8 to 12 GB with a 6 GB minimum. For a group of about six that is comfortable. If you regularly run large fights with several players and a lot of summoned adds, the upper half of that range is the safer place to be, since combat is where this pack spends its tick budget.

No, that is the progression system. Knowledge gates what a player can use, and some workstations and points of interest only open up after specific main-quest steps, so a late joiner is genuinely locked out of things their friends can use until they catch up. The practical answer is to help them through the early quest chain quickly, or to start a fresh world when the group changes.

DawnCraft replaces vanilla combat with a much heavier system, so each entity in a fight costs noticeably more processing than a vanilla mob. Boss encounters with summoned adds and several players are the peak load on the whole pack. Lowering `simulation-distance` gives back more headroom than lowering `view-distance`, and resisting the temptation to raise spawn rates keeps the problem from compounding.

Back up first, every time. The author puts that instruction at the top of every changelog, and quest and knowledge data is exactly the kind of thing that does not survive a bad update gracefully. The panel can take the backup as part of the update flow. Tell your players to update their client at the same time, since a mismatched mod list will not connect.

It helps more than on most packs, because players are constantly traveling to find structures and quest locations rather than staying near a base. The pack includes no pregeneration tool, so add Chunky to the server and run it before the group starts, then remove it later if you prefer. Let it finish before people log in, since the job is heavy while it runs.