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Run a RLCraft server

The famously brutal pack — thirst, temperature, dragons, and deaths you'll narrate for years.

CurseForge modpack8 GB RAM recommended

Installs automatically · Live in under 30 seconds · No port forwarding

WHY RLCRAFT ON A SERVER

RLCraft's reputation is earned: thirst, temperature, broken bones, leveled skills, and dragons that flatten your first three bases. Singleplayer it's masochism; multiplayer it's comedy — shared suffering is the actual content, and every death has witnesses.

It runs on an older Minecraft (1.12.2) with a huge mod count, which makes it memory-hungry and allergic to oversold CPUs. Give it a real allocation and it behaves.

Best for groups who want to suffer together

From zero to playing in three steps

STEP 1

Create the server

One click — RLCraft installs itself from CurseForge, correct Forge included.

STEP 2

Install the pack locally

Everyone gets RLCraft via the CurseForge app. Versions must match the server exactly.

STEP 3

Die repeatedly

Join, craft a flint knife, and don't drink dirty water. Automatic daily backups mean even a dragon can't erase the world.

◇ OUR PICK FOR RLCRAFT

Gold8 GB RAM, $24.99/mo

8 GB is our honest sizing for RLCraft. Start here — upgrading later is one click and your world comes with you.

Start on Gold
Cobblestone
2GB RAM
$6.99 / month
  • Up to 10 players
  • Vanilla & light plugins
  • One-click backups
Copper
3GB RAM
$9.99 / month
  • Up to 15 players
  • Vanilla & most plugins
  • One-click backups
Most popular
Iron
4GB RAM
$13.99 / month
  • Up to 25 players
  • Most modpacks & plugins
  • One-click backups
Emerald
6GB RAM
$19.99 / month
  • Up to 40 players
  • All modpacks & plugins
  • One-click backups
Gold
8GB RAM
$24.99 / month
  • Up to 75 players
  • Heavy modpacks
  • Headroom for big worlds
Diamond
16GB RAM
$49.99 / month
  • Up to 200 players
  • Our biggest allocation
  • The heaviest packs, maxed out

Pairs well with

Questions, answered.

How much RAM does an RLCraft server need?+

8 GB recommended. RLCraft is a 120+ mod pack on 1.12.2 with aggressive spawning — 6 GB survives a small careful group, 8 GB is the comfortable answer.

Why is my RLCraft server lagging?+

Usually mob spawning and unexplored-chunk generation. Pre-generate the world, keep view distance moderate, and check TPS in the live console — on guaranteed cores those two fixes solve most of it.

Can we turn down the difficulty?+

Somewhat — spawn rates and some mechanics are configurable through the pack's config files, editable in the file manager. But if you remove the suffering, it's not really RLCraft.

Your RLCraft server, tonight

Name it, pick a plan, and RLCraft installs itself. That is the whole setup.