Tune your world. Download. Deploy.

Pick a preset or dial in every rate yourself - the Docker Compose config on the right rewrites itself as you go. Only settings you change from the game defaults are written, so your file stays clean.

Server

Identity, capacity and who can join.

Server name

DescriptionShown in the server browser.

Join passwordLeave empty for open join.

Admin passwordRequired for in-game admin commands and RCON.

Max playersperf ▲▲

Game port (UDP)

Community serverLocked on: Xbox players can only join servers listed in the community browser. Deselect Xbox to change it.

Crossplay platforms

World & rates

How fast everything moves, levels and hatches.

Difficulty

EXP rate

×1.0

Pal capture rate

×1.0

Pal spawn amountperf ▲▲

×1.0

Day speed

×1.0

Night speed

×1.0

Egg hatch timeHuge eggs. 0 = instant.

72 h

Base work speed

×1.0

Survival & combat

How punishing the island is.

Death penaltyThe game default is the harshest option - most co-op servers pick something softer.

PvP

Player damagePlayers can hurt each other.

Friendly fire

Base raidsperf ▲Invader waves attack your base.

Hunger drain

×1.0

Stamina drain

×1.0

HP regen

×1.0

Enemy drop rate

×1.0

Bases & guilds

Limits for camps and groups.

Max base camps (server)perf ▲▲

Workers per baseperf ▲▲

Players per guild

Gather drop rate

×1.0

Node respawn speedperf ▲

×1.0

Backups & admin

Safety nets and remote control.

Automatic backups

Backup schedule

Keep backups (days)

Automatic game updatesInstalls Palworld updates on a schedule, warning players first. Best for vanilla servers - mods may break.

Update check schedule

Update warning (minutes)In-game countdown players see before the update restart.

Discord webhookPosts updates, backups and player joins to your channel. Kept in .env like a password.

TimezoneBackup and update schedules run in this timezone.

RCONRemote console - needed for clean shutdowns and the dashboard.

RCON port

MultithreadingCommunity performance flags.

Remote management

Adds a tiny palforge-agent sidecar to your compose file. It connects outbound to this PalForge - no ports to open - and your server appears in the Dashboard wherever you are: status, players, save, broadcast, shutdown.

game defaults

services:
  palworld:
    image: thijsvanloef/palworld-server-docker:latest
    container_name: palworld-server
    restart: unless-stopped
    stop_grace_period: 30s  # clean save + shutdown via RCON
    ports:
      - "8211:8211/udp"   # game
      - "27015:27015/udp" # steam query
    env_file:
      - .env              # names + passwords live here
    environment:
      PUID: 1000
      PGID: 1000
      TZ: "UTC"
      PORT: 8211
      PLAYERS: 16
      MULTITHREADING: true
      COMMUNITY: true
      CROSSPLAY_PLATFORMS: "(Steam,Xbox,PS5,Mac)"
      RCON_ENABLED: true
      RCON_PORT: 25575
      BACKUP_ENABLED: true
      BACKUP_CRON_EXPRESSION: "0 * * * *"
      DELETE_OLD_BACKUPS: true
      OLD_BACKUP_DAYS: 7
      AUTO_UPDATE_ENABLED: false
    volumes:
      - ./palworld-data:/palworld
    logging:
      driver: json-file
      options:
        max-size: "10m"   # keep container logs from eating the disk
        max-file: "3"

Est. footprint~4 CPU cores · ~13 GB RAMRough guide, driven by the settings tagged perf - mostly max players, pal spawn and base limits. Fits comfortably on a 16 GB box.

⚠ Set an admin password - without it you can’t run admin commands, and clean shutdown saves via RCON won’t work.