How to Host a Colony Survival Server – Step-by-Step Guide for Colony Leaders
If you’re ready to build, expand, and oversee your own thriving kingdom, hosting a Colony Survival server is the perfect way to do it. Customize your world, invite your friends, and grow a colony exactly how you envision it.
This guide explains how to host your own server and why Citadel Servers is a great partner for your adventure.
Step 1: Choose a Reliable Hosting Provider
Colony Survival is a voxel-based colony-building game where performance matters—especially as your population grows, farms expand, and night threats increase. Stable hardware ensures smooth AI behavior, fast world loading, and responsive gameplay.
Performance: Strong CPUs and fast NVMe storage keep colonist AI, job tasks, and large builds running smoothly.
Network Quality: Low-latency servers help ensure responsive gameplay, especially with multiple players managing colonies simultaneously.
Ease of Management: A straightforward control panel makes adjusting world settings, colony rules, and difficulty simple.
Support Availability: 24/7 assistance is essential when you need help with configuration or troubleshooting.
Citadel Servers delivers all of this—providing the reliability and performance that Colony Survival worlds depend on.
Step 2: Order Your Hosting Plan
Setting up your Citadel: Forged With Fire server is fast and simple:
1. Go to the Colony Survival hosting page.
2. Choose how many player slots you want.
3. Pick your server location closest to your player base for the best ping.
4. Select any extras, like process priority, premium support, etc.
5. Proceed to checkout — once payment is confirmed, your server deploys automatically.
You’ll receive an email with your control panel login details and connection info within minutes.
Step 3: Configure Your Server
Once your server is online, it’s time to customize your kingdom:
- Follow our Quick Start Guide
- Set your server name, admin password, and player permissions.
- Adjust difficulty, monster settings, colonist behavior, day/night cycle, and colony expansion rules.
- Tune world parameters such as spawn rates, job settings, colony limits, and raid difficulty.
- Install mods through the built-in Mod Manager or upload your own modifications via FTP/SFTP.
All configuration is handled directly through the Citadel Control Panel—simple, fast, and beginner-friendly.
Step 4: Launch and Play
When your configuration is complete, start your server with one click and invite your community.
Players can join via the in-game server browser or by entering your server’s IP and port.
You can watch activity, manage players, rotate maps, and restart the server whenever needed—all from the same interface.
Why Host with Citadel Servers
When you host Colony Survival with Citadel Servers, you get the power, flexibility, and reliability needed to grow a stable, large-scale colony. Our infrastructure ensures smooth AI performance, fast world loading, and full customization control.
What Makes Us Stand Out
Instant Setup: Your server deploys automatically after payment—start building within minutes.
High-Performance Hardware: Dedicated CPU resources and NVMe SSD storage keep colonists, farms, and construction efficient and lag-free.
Global Data Centers: Choose from multiple worldwide locations to keep ping low for all players.
Full Access & Mod Freedom: Upload, edit, and customize any server file to shape your colony your way.
One-Click Mod Manager: Browse, install, update, and manage mods instantly without external tools.
Automated Backups & Easy Restarts: Protect your world and manage server reboots directly through the control panel.
24/7 Expert Support: Our technical team is always available to help with setup, configuration, or troubleshooting.
Your growing colony deserves a strong, reliable foundation — and that’s exactly what Citadel Servers delivers: performance, flexibility, and stability built for dedicated colony leaders.
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