How to Host an After The Silence Server
After The Silence is a Forge 1.20.1 recreation of The Last of Us: a post-apocalyptic wasteland overrun by infected, where survival depends on scavenging ruined cities and managing scarce resources. Getting the server right matters more than usual here, because the whole appeal is that tense, scarcity-driven atmosphere — a crash-looping boot or a corrupted save breaks the experience as much as it breaks the save file.
Start with at least 5GB of RAM. That's the floor this pack's own recommendation is built around — Forge 1.20.1 plus the infected mob AI, scavenged-structure generation, and survival systems in After The Silence will stutter or crash a server trying to run on less.
Import the official modpack file directly instead of rebuilding it from a client-side export. After The Silence is one of the heavier TLOU-style tribute packs around, and manually copying mods over from a launcher profile is the most common way people end up missing a dependency or shipping a mismatched version.
Watch the console through the first full boot. This pack leans hard into a tense, resource-scarce post-apocalyptic atmosphere — infected spawn logic, ruined-city structure generation, and survivor encounter scripts all need to finish loading without errors before you treat the server as ready.
Only invite players after that first boot has completed cleanly. Letting people connect mid-crash-loop is how a tense survival server turns into a chat full of disconnect messages before anyone's even scavenged their first building.
Take a backup before importing an existing world, updating the Forge loader, or changing survival-balance configs. In a scarcity-driven pack like this, a corrupted save doesn't just lose blocks — it can wipe out a whole settlement's worth of scavenged gear and progress.
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