Homestead Server Hosting

Check their shader preset first. Homestead bundles several, from lightweight to very demanding, and the heavier ones will bring a mid-range computer to its knees regardless of how the server is performing. Shaders run entirely on the player's graphics card and cost the server nothing. Switching to a lighter preset usually resolves it in seconds, before you start investigating anything else.

8 GB for a group of around six. At around 366 entries it is a large pack, and the terrain mods make new chunks expensive to generate. Cozy does not mean small: players explore to find good building sites, and then the builds themselves accumulate as detailed, block-heavy areas that stay in loaded chunks. Both of those consume more than a plain survival server would.

Yes, it is worth the time. Tectonic, Geophilic and the biome mods make each new chunk considerably more expensive than vanilla, and finding a good place to build means players will keep generating them. Add a pregeneration mod to the server, cover a sensible radius around spawn while nobody is online, and let it finish before the group starts settling.

No, and that is deliberate. The chapters are themed around homesteading, exploring, mining and magic, and they reward what you do rather than gating what you can do. One player can spend weeks on a farmhouse while another goes caving, and neither is behind. That suits a mixed group better than a linear quest pack, where somebody always ends up waiting.

Yes, using Fabric builds for Minecraft 1.20.1, uploaded into `mods/` and given to every player as identical files. Be careful with anything that changes world generation, since the pack's terrain is one of its main features and adding another biome mod on top can produce chunk borders that do not line up with what has already generated.

More careful than on a pack where people can rebuild quickly. Homestead worlds accumulate substantial building work, so take the backup the panel offers before any version change and read the notes for removed mods, since a dropped mod takes its blocks out of people's builds. Have everyone update their client on the same day so nobody is locked out.