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.
Recommendation
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.
View 4GB PlansWhat 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.
Unturned server RAM by player count
The calculator above, run for 3 common sizes. Each figure is rounded up to a plan size people actually sell.
| Players | Vanilla map | Heavy Modded |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 GB | 6 GB |
| 12 | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| 24 | 6 GB | 8 GB |
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.