Open the server folder
Choose the folder that holds your server files as the chat's working folder, so the file tools can see the settings and SaveGames.
Workflows
Palworld server requirements checked step by step
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Check your PC, back up the world, test the port
Before friends can join, your PC has to meet the Palworld server requirements that Pocketpair lists in its server documentation, and the figures change between updates. GeekCrest fetches that page with http_get so you can compare it with your PC. Read it yourself. You then back up the saves, open UDP port 8211 in your firewall and router yourself, and test from outside.
Read the requirements page
Name the Palworld server documentation; http_get fetches the page, and you compare its figures with your PC.
Run the backup script
Read backup-saves.cmd in Ask first mode, run it with Shell and check that the exit code reports success before you continue.
Open the port, then test
Open UDP port 8211 in your firewall and on your router yourself, restart the server, then ask a friend to join over the internet.
A backup script for your saves
Write backup-saves.cmd for my SaveGames folder, run it and show me the exit code.
- list_dir
Pal\Saved\SaveGameslisted - write_file
backup-saves.cmdsaved - Shell
backup-saves.cmdexit 0 - list_dir
C:\PalBackupslisted
Waiting for your OK before the next stepRejectAccept
backup-saves.cmd
@echo off
rem Copy the Palworld save folder before an update.
rem Stop or save the server before you run this file.
set SRC=C:\PalServer\Pal\Saved\SaveGames
set DST=C:\PalBackups\SaveGames
if not exist "%DST%" mkdir "%DST%"
robocopy "%SRC%" "%DST%" /E
if %ERRORLEVEL% GEQ 8 (
echo Backup failed with code %ERRORLEVEL%.
exit /b 1
)
echo Backup finished. Check the folder %DST%.
exit /b 0Edit SRC and DST first. Run the file after the server has stopped, and give DST a new name for each backup, because Robocopy only adds and updates files there.
Palworld server ports, firewall and router
Will changing your router affect the dedicated server?
Yes, it can. The game's default port is 8211 over UDP, and for players on the internet it must be open on your firewall and forwarded on your router to the server PC, so a new router needs the forwarding rule again. GeekCrest cannot configure your router. It uses write_file to create ports-checklist.txt, listing the port, the protocol, the firewall rule and the PC the router should forward to, and you fill in the values from your router's screen. Keep RCON disabled unless you need it, and use a join password and a strong admin password. Check the file card in Ask first before it is saved, then ask a friend outside your network to join.
Tune rates with backups around each change
Experience and capture rates are keys in the same OptionSettings entry as the player limit. A balanced set of EXP and capture rate settings comes from small rounds: back up the SaveGames folder, change one value, restart the server, play for a while and compare. Change just one. GeekCrest uses edit_file to propose the change and shows a diff that you accept in Ask first mode. If the server rolls back every day after such a change, list_dir can show the SaveGames folder and your backup folder side by side, so you compare their dates before you decide what to restore.
