Night on the peninsula Β· server steady
Room for the whole group
Pick the CPU and memory your world needs, on NVMe storage, and size up as your base grows.
The Forest Server Hosting
Keep the peninsula online for your whole group, even when the host logs off. Set the difficulty, password and save slot from the panel.
- Peaceful to Hard Survival, plus your own rules
- Five save slots, so old worlds stay
- Updates itself every time it starts
- Switch between 446 games for free, anytime*
- From, per month
- $7.99
- Player slots
- Unlimited
- Uptime
- 99.9%
- Money-back
- 3 days
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No per-slot fees. Choose your own slot limit. To help us recommend the right plan for you, tell us how many friends are joining you!
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Cowman6 GB RAM, 150% CPU
$15.99/mo
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Secure Backups Included
Cowman
$15.99/mo
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
- Cowman plan $15.99
- Secure Backups 30 GBFree
3-day money-back guarantee
Part of the Gamebox
Switch your The Forest server to any of 445 other games, right from the panel, whenever you want!*
Included with
every plan
99.9%+ Uptime
Server Console
Config Editor
(S)FTP Access
Secure Backups
Auto Restarts
DDoS Protected
NVMe Storage
US & UK Locations
Instant Setup
Why host The Forest with Physgun?
A world that stays online for your whole group, with its difficulty, save slots and rules set from the panel.
99.9% uptime Β· DDoS protected
Always online, always protected
99.9% uptime and DDoS protection on every The Forest server.
Deploying server Installing The Forest Server online
Online in minutes
Your server installs itself the moment you order. No setup, no port forwarding.
Your World
DifficultyPeacefulNormalHardHard Survival
Gameplay
Tree RegrowthOffOn
Building DestructionOnOff
Realistic Player DamageOffOn
Allow CheatsOnOff
Save slot 2 Β· new worldother saves untouched
Set up your world
Difficulty, Save Slots and Rules
Pick Peaceful, Normal, Hard or Hard Survival, and the save slot the server loads. Then set the rules in the config editor: no enemies at all or none by day, tree regrowth, building destruction, realistic player damage and cheats.
- Four difficulties, Peaceful to Hard Survival
- Five save slots, so old worlds stay
Server.cfg - Physgun VS Code main Server.cfg
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serverName Physgun | Peninsula
difficulty HardSurvival
treeRegrowMode on
serverAutoSaveInterval 30
Terminal
$ ssh server@physgun.com
β Connected, The Forest container ready
$ physgun status
β running Β· Hard Survival Β· slot 2
For the power users
SSH Access & VSCode
Connect with real developer tools and edit Server.cfg or your saves directly. Or skip it entirely and use the config editor in our panel.
- Full SSH access included
- Edit files live in VSCode
Save Slotslot 2 empty
12345
Autosave Interval15 min
Slot 1 kept as it was
Five Save Slots
Keep up to five worlds and pick the one the server loads. It autosaves as often as you set while players are online, and when the last player leaves.
Nobody online
Players online30
Server frame rate605
Running at the idle rate
Idle Tick Rate
Set how fast the server runs while nobody is online, and while players are on. A low idle rate saves CPU between sessions.
Schedules2 active
Nightly Restart
Daily Backup
Update on Start
Updates on Restart
With Update on Start on, the server checks for a game update every time it starts. Schedule restarts and backups and the panel runs them.
The panel every The Forest server deserves.
One place for your whole peninsula: difficulty, passwords and save slot in the startup settings, a config editor for your gameplay rules, scheduled restarts and backups, subusers for your group, a file manager with SSH and VS Code, and every other universal tool.
gamecp.physgun.com/true-console-ssh-access
True Console & SSH Access
Accurate, blazing-fast output piped directly from the container. Paired with complete SSH access inside the Panel!
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The Forest Server Hosting, Explained
New to The Forest?
What is The Forest?
The Forest is a first-person survival horror game from Endnight Games. As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you wake on a forested peninsula ruled by a society of cannibalistic mutants, while you search for your missing son. By day you chop trees, gather food, craft tools and weapons and build anything from a small shelter to an ocean side fortress. At night you defend it, or take the fight to the enemy. Below ground, a network of caves and underground lakes leads on with the story. Play alone or with up to seven friends.
Build and Defend.
Every tree can be chopped down. Build a camp, lay traps and defences, and hold it through the night.
Survive Together.
Split up the work, explore the caves as a group and cover each other when the mutants attack.
Why rent a server?
What is The Forest Server Hosting?
When one player hosts, the world only runs while they play, and everyone is kicked when they quit. A dedicated server runs the peninsula on its own, so anyone in the group can log in whenever they like and the save is always there. There is no PC to leave on and no port forwarding to set up. With Physgun it installs itself in minutes, with the difficulty, passwords, save slot and gameplay rules in the panel, and full file access over SFTP and SSH.
Always-On World.
The world stays online when the host logs off, so the group can play on their own schedules.
Full Control.
Set the difficulty and gameplay rules, keep worlds in save slots, and lock the server with a password.
Questions, answered
Straight answers before you order. Still stuck? Real people are here around the clock.
Physgun
Up to eight, which is the most the game allows in co-op. You can set a lower limit, and we never charge per player.
Yes. The server runs on its own, so anyone in your group can join and keep building whenever they like, even when you are offline.
Yes. Pick any of the game's four difficulties, from Peaceful with no enemies to Hard Survival, and set your own gameplay rules on top.
Yes. The server keeps a world in each of its five save slots, so you can go back to an old world or pick an empty slot to start fresh.
The server checks for an update every time it starts, and this is on by default. A restart is all it takes to get your group onto a new version.
Yes. Physgun runs scheduled backups of your whole server, saves included, and you can restore one in a single click. The game also autosaves while players are online, as often as you set.
Yes. The Forest is part of the Gamebox, so you can switch your server to another Gamebox game from the panel, as long as your server meets that game's minimum CPU, memory and storage. Switching installs the new game from scratch and wipes the old game's files, and the panel offers to take a backup first.
Yes. Every Physgun server is protected from DDoS attacks.
Chicago, USA and London, UK. Pick the one closest to most of your players when you order.
Yes. Every Physgun server comes with a 3 day refund guarantee: contact support within three days of ordering for a full refund.
Still stuck?
Ready to launch your The Forest server?
Keep your peninsula online for the whole group, with its difficulty, saves and rules set from the panel.
- 3-day money-back guarantee
- Online in minutes
- Real people, around the clock
