Here's how to boost server FPS and optimize your Palworld Server. This guide highlights best practices you can adopt as a server owner to ensure your Palworld server runs at peak performance often resulting in a noticeable improvement in most cases.
Daily Restarts
The first thing you'll want to do is create an automatic daily restart schedule, this serves to keep your resource usage under control while ensuring your server has a fresh load once every 24 hours.
To create a schedule follow this guide.
Optimize Configuration
There are multiple Palworld server settings that will negatively impact performance. Some may affect it only a little, while others have very noticeable effects.
If you're having any Server FPS issues adjust these settings accordingly, these will be the most important settings for performance especially if you're running a community server.
These settings are changed in Startup Parameters of the Game Host Bros Panel.
Main Settings
| Setting Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BuildObjectDeteriorationDamageRate | 1.0 | Higher is better for performance, this should always be at least 0.1 |
| bAutoResetGuildNoOnlinePlayers | False | Set to True - WARNING Enables guild disbanding after the duration specified by AutoResetGuildTimeNoOnlinePlayers. This will DELETE bases if a guild goes inactive. The default grace period is 72.0 hours. |
| AutoResetGuildTimeNoOnlinePlayers | 72.0 | If bAutoResetGuildNoOnlinePlayers is enabled, this is the time limit before a guild will be disbanded |
| PalSpawnNumRate | 1.0 | Decrease this to spawn less Pals |
| DropItemMaxNum | 3000 | Decrease this especially if you have increased Drop Rates |
| DropItemAliveMaxHours | 1.0 | Decrease this especially if you have increased Drop Rates or many players |
| BaseCampMaxNumInGuild | 4 | Decrease this if there are many guilds |
| ServerReplicatePawnCullDistance | 15000.0 | Decrease this for much better performance, officially "Pal Sync Distance" |
| BaseCampWorkerMaxNum | 15 | Decrease this to lessen load |
| MaxBuildingLimitNum | 0 (Unlimited) | Set a value to limit max buildings per player |
| bEnableInvaderEnemy | True | Set to False. |
Secondary Performance Settings
| Setting Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BaseCampMaxNum | 128 | Decrease this if you're running a popular public server with a lot of bases |
| Auto Save Span | 240 (4 minutes) | Increase this for less frequent auto save CPU spikes |
Heavy building and high player count servers will always reach a limitation at some point. Even the fastest gaming hardware isn't able to run a Palworld server at 60fps in such cases.
