Vintage Story Server Hosting

Yes. It is sold directly by Anego Studios rather than through Steam, and each player needs their own account. The server is the shared world, not a licence, so your group buys the game once each and connects to one address.

That is the main reason to rent one. The world clock keeps running on our hardware, so crops ripen and winter arrives on schedule instead of pausing until someone logs in. Worth telling your group before their first unattended autumn.

Three GB suits a small group on a fresh map. The game simulates weather, entities and chunk generation continuously, so a long-lived world with a lot of explored ground and a heavy mod list is what pushes memory up rather than raw player numbers.

Mods come from the official ModDB and drop into the server mods folder over FTP. Every player needs the same versions, and mods here often touch worldgen, so add them early in a world rather than halfway through, and back up before you do.

Yes. Stop the server and upload your save over FTP. Keep the original copy locally until you have confirmed the server loads it, since a mismatched game version between your client and the server is the usual reason a transferred world refuses to open.

The slot limit is a server setting, defaulting to sixteen, and you can change it whenever you like. Vintage Story rewards a settled group building one region together, so most servers do better with a steady handful than a large crowd.