RaftPack Server Hosting

We recommend 6 GB for RaftPack with a group of around six. The 114 Fabric mods set the baseline, and the rest depends on how far players sail, since every new stretch of ocean has to be generated. A big raft full of farms and storage also adds load, so raise the memory if the base grows huge.

About six is the sweet spot. The early game is about sharing scarce debris, so a small crew keeps it tense without anyone running dry on materials. Larger groups work too, but they usually split into several rafts heading in different directions, which means more chunk generation and a good reason to add RAM.

Stop the server, make a backup, then install the newer build from the Modpacks tab. Read the changelog first: if a mod was removed, its blocks disappear from the world, and on a raft that can mean missing deck pieces with the ocean underneath. Log in after the update and check the raft before the crew sets sail.

Yes, through the Files tab or SFTP, as long as each mod is built for Fabric on Minecraft 1.20.1. Server-side additions such as a pregenerator are harmless, but anything that adds blocks or items must also go on every player's client. Removing a mod the raft is built from deletes those blocks, so back up first.

Both start you with almost nothing, but a skyblock pack fixes you to one island in the void, while RaftPack gives you a whole ocean to cross. Resources arrive as floating debris instead of from a cobblestone generator, and exploring is part of progression. It plays more like a survival voyage than a stationary resource grind.

There is no land under you at spawn, and the raft is meant to stay your home base. Anything solid you find while sailing is worth exploring and looting for materials you cannot fish out of the water, but the pack is built around carrying that loot back to the raft rather than moving ashore for good.