Windrose Server Hosting

For a persistent cooperative pirate survival experience, renting a managed dedicated server is the preferred choice. This ensures 24/7 uptime, allowing your crew to progress and build your pirate empire even when you are offline. By using a professional host, you benefit from:
- Instant Setup: Your server is activated immediately so you can start your adventure right away.
- High Performance: Optimized hardware, including NVMe SSDs, provides a stable and low-latency environment for all players.
- Enterprise Protection: Built-in DDoS protection keeps your server secure from external interruptions.
- Full Control: Access advanced features like mod support and comprehensive file management through a custom control panel.

Yes. Unlike local peer-to-peer hosting where the world stops when the host leaves, a dedicated Windrose server remains persistent 24/7. This allows your crew to gather resources, defend ships, and manage the archipelago even when the primary "Captain" is offline.

Windrose has a strict limit of 10 players. Our dedicated servers are optimized to support this 10-player cap with peak performance, ensuring that "Soulslite" combat and complex naval physics remain fluid and responsive for the entire crew.

Yes. Every Windrose server is protected by our high-capacity DDoS mitigation at no extra cost. We ensure your voyage isn’t interrupted by malicious attacks, keeping your server's latency low and uptime high.

Yes, within what Windrose itself supports. Each world has a WorldPresetType of Easy, Medium or Hard, plus custom multipliers for mob health and damage, ship health and damage, and boarding difficulty, all set in WorldDescription.json. Server name, password, invite code and max player count live in ServerDescription.json, which you can edit through our control panel or over FTP. Windrose is a PvE co-op game, so there is no PvP toggle, and the vanilla server has no XP or gather rate multipliers.

Yes. We provide an integrated backup manager. You can create manual snapshots before making major changes or set up a schedule for automatic backups to ensure your world progress and custom ship designs are never lost.

Our support team is available 24/7 to assist with any technical issues, including crashes, connectivity problems, or configuration challenges. We’re here to ensure your server runs smoothly.

The most common causes are a wrong Invite Code or a version mismatch between your game client and the server. Windrose players join by invite code through NAT punch-through, so there are no ports to open by default; make sure everyone is on the same Windrose build and uses the exact, case-sensitive code set in ServerDescription.json. If the server still shows as not found, confirm in the control panel that it has finished booting and have players disable any VPN or proxy. Our 24/7 support team can check the server logs if the problem persists.

Rent a dedicated Windrose server from Host Havoc and share its Invite Code only with the friends you want on board, with no port forwarding needed on your end. For an extra lock, set IsPasswordProtected and a Password in ServerDescription.json from the control panel, and choose the world's Easy, Medium or Hard preset. The server stays online 24/7, so your friends can sail in anytime, even when you are offline.

Host Havoc's Windrose hosting starts at a low monthly rate for a fully managed dedicated server, with instant setup, DDoS protection, and full control-panel access included. There are no separate charges for mod support, backups, or the slots your crew needs. Every plan is backed by our 72-hour money-back guarantee, so you can test performance risk-free.

Rerun SteamCMD with app_update 4129620 validate after every Windrose patch, since the dedicated server must run the same version as the game client or players can run into bugs. The command only downloads changed files, so updates are quick once the server is installed. On Host Havoc, the one-click update system in the control panel pulls the latest build through SteamCMD for you.

CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States, covering Russia and its neighbors) is one of three network regions a Windrose dedicated server can use, alongside SEA and EU, and EU covers both Europe and North America. You choose it with the UserSelectedRegion field in ServerDescription.json, and leaving the field blank lets the server pick the lowest-latency region automatically. On Host Havoc, stop the server, edit the file in the File Manager, then start it again from the control panel.

Difficulty is set per world in WorldDescription.json, where WorldPresetType picks Easy, Medium, or Hard and custom multipliers tune mob health and damage, ship health and damage, and boarding difficulty. Stop the server before editing, then run R5WorldDescriptionUpdater.exe against the file, or the changes will not apply on restart. On Host Havoc the world files are in the File Manager, and our 24/7 support team can help you apply the change.