Smartly Dressed Games' free survival sandbox runs lean — but a busy 24-slot RP server with 30 OpenMod plugins and a custom Workshop map collection still needs a fast core to keep tick rate honest. Ryzen 9 single-thread performance, OpenMod + RocketMod (legacy) pre-installed, all curated maps available 1-click, Workshop content auto-sync, Uconomy + Kits + Vehicles + Discord pre-wired, and DDoS protection. Deploy an Unturned server in under 60 seconds.
Unturned has the lowest hardware floor of any survival game on the market — but a popular 24-slot Roleplay or Arena server with 30 OpenMod plugins and a heavy Workshop content stack will still burn a core hard. We've built the stack for the survival, RP, Arena, and Horde communities that have kept Unturned in the Steam top 50 for almost a decade.
Unturned's server tick is single-thread bound. A 4-slot vanilla PEI server will run on anything; a 24-slot Russia RP server with 30 OpenMod plugins, custom vehicles, and Discord-integrated economy needs a fast core. Ryzen 9 7950X at 5.7 GHz boost holds tick steady through the worst RP rush hour.
Survival, Arena (battle royale), Horde (PvE waves), Roleplay (RP), and Sandbox / Creative — all pre-configured with the right plugins, map cycle, loot tables, and admin permissions. Switch from PEI Survival to Russia RP from the panel without rebuilding your Commands.dat by hand.
Both plugin frameworks installed and auto-updated. OpenMod (the modern .NET framework) is the recommended default; RocketMod (legacy) supported for communities running older plugin stacks. Common plugins — Uconomy, Kits, AviRent, Vehicles, Permissions, ChatLogger, Discord notifier — available 1-click from our library.
PEI, Yukon, Russia, Washington, Germany, France, Hawaii, Greece, Carpat, Buak, Arid, Ireland, Elver, Athens — every Smartly Dressed Games-curated map ready to swap from the panel. Plus Workshop maps via the standard collection workflow. No hunting through Steam Workshop IDs to install Russia.
Paste a Workshop collection URL — we resolve every .uc content pack (mods, maps, skins, vehicles, weapons), pre-cache them on the server, and push the manifest to player clients on connect. Auto-update on every server restart picks up content updates from authors automatically.
The standard Discord bridge plugin (chat relay, join/leave notifications, /report routing, admin commands from Discord) installed and configured against your guild's webhook. Saves a half-day of OAuth + permissions wrangling on every new Unturned community launch.
Save data, plugin configs, and Uconomy databases snapshotted every 24 hours with 30-day retention. Manual snapshots unlimited. One-click rollback from the dashboard saves you when an OpenMod plugin nukes your shop balances or your Workshop map updates corrupt build state at 3 AM.
Layer 3/4/7 mitigation on every plan. UDP query floods and Steam-protocol abuse absorbed at the edge — your RP server stays online when a banned player decides to take it personally and find a booter.
Live chat, Discord, and tickets — staffed by people who actually know what Commands.dat, OpenMod role permissions, RocketMod's Permissions.config.xml, and a half-broken Uconomy DB look like. We've been hosting Unturned since the RocketMod era. No first-line script readers.
Four ways to launch your Unturned server — from fully managed cloud hosting to a hand-built Russia / Washington / Elver RP server assembled by our team.
Managed Unturned cloud servers with OpenMod + plugins
Root-access VPS for custom Unturned stacks
Bare-metal for big multi-server RP / Arena networks
We build, install, and launch your Unturned server for you
1,100+ Unturned servers running on Fatality. Here's what keeps them here.
Russia RP server with 30 OpenMod plugins, custom vehicles, faction system, and Uconomy economy. Fatality's panel handled the OpenMod migration off our old RocketMod stack — they translated permissions, ported configs, and got us running in a couple of hours. Tick has been rock-solid since.
Elver Arena (battle royale) server with custom loot tables, 50-player lobbies, and a Workshop map rotation. Workshop sync just works — players never have to manually subscribe to anything. Discord bridge handles match announcements and admin commands without me touching it.
Horde server on Washington with custom waves and progression. The standard plugin pack was already wired up — Kits, Permissions, AviRent, Discord — saved me an entire weekend of setup. Daily backups pulled us out of a corrupted save once and the rollback was a single click.
The questions admins actually ask before spinning up a dedicated Unturned server.
OpenMod is the modern recommended framework. It's a clean .NET-based plugin host with proper async support, modern config, and active development. RocketMod (legacy) is the original framework — it still works for plugins that haven't been ported, but it's effectively in maintenance mode. We pre-install OpenMod by default, with RocketMod available for legacy plugin stacks.
Uconomy (currency / economy), Kits (starter / VIP / role kits), AviRent (vehicle rental), Vehicles (car spawning + tuning), Permissions (group / role management), ChatLogger, Discord bridge (chat relay, join/leave, /report), and the OpenMod admin tools. Sensible defaults included; custom plugins drop into plugins/ via SFTP and hot-load on supported plugin types.
Paste a Workshop collection URL — we resolve every .uc content pack (mods, maps, skins, vehicles, weapons) and pre-cache them on the server. Player clients pull the manifest on connect and download missing content. Auto-update runs on every server restart so author updates are picked up automatically. Big content stacks (Russia mods, Elver kits, faction overhauls) all work.
Survival (the default), Arena (battle royale-style), Horde (PvE wave defense), Roleplay (RP — by far the most popular non-vanilla mode), and Sandbox / Creative. Each ships as a 1-click template with the right plugins, loot table tuning, map cycle, and admin permissions to start from.
For a small vanilla survival or 4-8 player friend server: 2-4 GB RAM and any modern core is plenty. For a serious 24-slot Russia RP with 30 OpenMod plugins and Workshop content: 6-8 GB and a dedicated high-clock core. Unturned has the lowest hardware floor of any popular survival game — but RP servers can scale up surprisingly fast once the plugin stack grows.
All of them: PEI, Yukon, Russia, Washington, Germany, France, Hawaii, Greece, Carpat, Buak, Arid, Ireland, Elver, and Athens. Plus any Workshop map via the standard collection workflow. Map switching is a 1-click operation from the panel — no hunting through Commands.dat by hand.
Yes, free on every paid plan. Send us SFTP credentials, we copy your save data, OpenMod / RocketMod plugins + configs, Uconomy MySQL DB (or SQLite), Workshop content, and your Commands.dat + Permissions.config.xml. Average migration is 10-20 minutes; most Unturned servers are small enough to move in a single rsync.
BattlEye is enabled by default on every server (Smartly Dressed Games' built-in anti-cheat). For RP and economy servers we recommend layering OpenMod's anti-VPN and connection-rate plugins; we ship sensible defaults. Reports from your moderators flow through the Discord bridge into a dedicated channel for triage.
Yes — add additional Unturned servers to your account anytime, each with its own resource allocation, map, gamemode, and plugin stack. Common setup for communities: a Russia RP + a PEI Survival + an Elver Arena + a Washington Horde, all sharing admin permissions via the OpenMod role system across the network.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X at 5.7 GHz boost, DDR5-5200 RAM, Enterprise NVMe Gen 4 SSDs. Overkill for a 4-slot vanilla server; absolutely worth it for a 24-slot Russia RP server with 30 OpenMod plugins where tick stability is the difference between a community that grows and one that bleeds players to the next host.
Start a 4-slot survival friend server this afternoon, scale to a full Russia RP + Elver Arena + Washington Horde network next month. Free migration on every paid plan — we'll move your plugins, configs, Uconomy DB, and Workshop content for you.
