Run a Chunky server
Pre-generate your world so exploration never lags the server.
Installs automatically · Live in under 30 seconds · No port forwarding
New-chunk generation is the single biggest lag source on survival servers — every explorer at the border makes the whole server pay. Chunky removes it up front: one command generates the world out to your border before anyone gets there.
Run it on day one, overnight. From then on exploration costs almost nothing, which is why pre-generation is standard practice on every serious public server.
From zero to playing in three steps
Create the server
One click creates a Paper server with Chunky staged (it also runs on Fabric/NeoForge servers).
Pre-generate
From the live console: `chunky radius 3000` then `chunky start`. Let it run — a few thousand blocks takes a while on any host.
Set a border
Match a world border to what you generated (`worldborder set 6000`) so nobody outruns the pre-gen.
Versions & compatibility
The create button sets up Paper (plugin) 26.1.2 — the newest release both Chunky and our catalog support. You can change it later in your server settings.
Iron — 4 GB RAM, $13.99/mo
4 GB is our honest sizing for Chunky. Start here — upgrading later is one click and your world comes with you.
- ✓Up to 10 players
- ✓Vanilla & light plugins
- ✓One-click backups
- ✓Up to 25 players
- ✓Most modpacks & plugins
- ✓One-click backups
- ✓Up to 40 players
- ✓All modpacks & plugins
- ✓One-click backups
- ✓Up to 200 players
- ✓Our biggest allocation
- ✓The heaviest packs, maxed out
Pairs well with
Questions, answered.
How long does pre-generation take?+
Roughly proportional to area: a 3000-block radius is ~1.4 million chunks and typically runs a few hours. Start it from the console and leave it — Chunky resumes if the server restarts.
How much RAM does pre-generation need?+
Generation is more CPU than RAM; 4 GB is comfortable. What matters is that pre-gen time is one-off — after it finishes you can run the world on a smaller plan.
Does Chunky work with Terralith or other worldgen mods?+
Yes — it generates whatever your worldgen produces, which makes the pairing ideal: Terralith terrain is expensive to generate and free to visit once Chunky has done it.
Your Chunky server, tonight
Name it, pick a plan, and Chunky installs itself. That is the whole setup.