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Unturned server RAM: how much do you need?

For a survival game Unturned is light, and which map you run matters much more than the player cap.

124 Players
Server Scope / Mods

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You need a server with at least

4GB

Engine / Base OS:
2 GB
Player Overhead:
+1.2 GB
Estimated Raw Usage:
3.2 GB
Suggested cores:
2
Disk to allow:
10 GB+

Unity, and light for its genre. Curated workshop maps raise both memory and load time.

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What uses the memory in Unturned

The stock game is fairly modest. Curated workshop maps, though, dwarf the stock ones and get loaded whole. Buildings persist as well, so a server that has run for a long time grows the way other survival servers do — it just starts from a lower floor.

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Where people get it wrong

Assuming a workshop map costs what a stock map does. A big community map can multiply the baseline several times by itself, and it all loads at startup whether or not anyone goes to that part of the map.

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