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Plan for 8 GB. That figure comes from 242 Forge mods loading at startup plus the AI of horror creatures that hunt players at night. A smaller allocation usually boots but stutters once several entities are active around different players. If you add more mods or grow past six players, raise memory before the lag shows up in the middle of a night raid.

Around six is the sweet spot. Horrorland is meant to be scary together, and a handful of players keeps the night-time creature load manageable while still giving the group enough people to split roles. Bigger groups can play, but every extra player loads more chunks and draws more creatures, so watch TPS and add RAM as the group grows.

Stop the server, take a full backup, then install the new build from the Modpacks tab. Read the changelog first: if a creature or structure mod was dropped, an existing world can show missing entities or blocks. Every player has to move their client to the same build, currently 5.0.0, or Forge refuses them at login with a mod mismatch.

Yes, through the Files tab or SFTP in the mods folder, but mirror every change on each player's client because Forge checks that both sides match. Removing a horror mod mid-world can wipe its creatures and blocks from the save, so back up first. Server-side tools such as spark for profiling are the safest additions to make.

Many horror packs add one or two signature creatures to an otherwise vanilla game. Horrorland stacks a large roster of them on top of 242 mods with extra adventure and challenge content, so threats overlap and nights rarely play out the same way. The trade-off is weight: it needs clearly more RAM and CPU than a light horror pack.

Many of Horrorland's creatures come out or spawn more often in darkness, and each one runs pathfinding and tracking logic toward nearby players. When the group splits up, several separate areas stay loaded with that AI running at once. Keeping together after dark and pregenerating the world beforehand both shrink the night-time spike noticeably.