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Enshrouded Dedicated Server Hardware: What the Workload Actually Looks Like<\/h2>

Enshrouded is a voxel-based survival RPG built on a heavily customised engine, and that origin matters enormously for hardware. Unlike a Unity or Unreal title that loads discrete levels, Enshrouded streams a continuous voxel world, which means the server does sustained streaming, physics, and terrain-diffusion work even when players are standing still. Sizing a box for it therefore looks more like sizing a voxel sandbox than a typical action game. If you want a baseline, compare dedicated server plans<\/a> by single-thread clock and NVMe capacity, not raw core count.<\/p>

Player Slots and the Real CPU Cost<\/h2>

The dedicated server is single-region and supports a maximum of 16 players, which sounds modest. But the voxel terrain, the building system, and the AI all run on a small number of threads. Measured behaviour across host classes shows the server tolerates more players only if single-thread performance is high.<\/p>

Player slots<\/th>Player density\/session<\/th>Single-core target<\/th>Observed server CPU<\/th><\/tr>
1-4<\/td>Light exploration<\/td>3.4+ GHz<\/td>1-2 cores, < 30%<\/td><\/tr>
5-8<\/td>Mixed building<\/td>4.0+ GHz<\/td>2-3 cores, 40-60%<\/td><\/tr>
9-12<\/td>Dense base building<\/td>4.4+ GHz<\/td>3-4 cores, 60-80%<\/td><\/tr>
13-16<\/td>Full server + big builds<\/td>4.6-5.0 GHz<\/td>4-6 cores, 80-100%<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/figure>

The pattern is identical to Valheim and Minecraft: single-core clock dominates because so much of the tick runs serialised. A 16-slot server on a high-clock 4-core chip will feel better than the same slots on a low-clock 8-core chip every time.<\/p>

RAM: Voxel World Grows With Builds, Not Players<\/h2>

Enshrouded’s world is persistent and player-editable at voxel level. Every dug tunnel and placed block persists in the save, so RAM and save size scale with cumulative building activity across the whole server lifetime, not with how many players are online at once.<\/p>

World state<\/th>Approx. RAM<\/th>Save size<\/th><\/tr>
Fresh start, minimal edits<\/td>4-6 GB<\/td>50-150 MB<\/td><\/tr>
Active village + terraforming<\/td>8-12 GB<\/td>400 MB – 1 GB<\/td><\/tr>
Large community megabase<\/td>14-20 GB<\/td>1.5-4 GB<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/figure>