How to Host an Otherworld [Dungeons & Dragons] Server

Start with Otherworld's own recommended RAM floor, not a generic Forge pack guess — 6 GB is the baseline plan for this pack, since class abilities and structured dungeon encounters add real memory overhead on top of a normal survival world.

Import the modpack directly from its official release rather than piecing it together from a client export — a clean server-side install avoids missing dungeon-encounter data or class-balance configs that client packs don't ship with.

Watch the logs through the first boot until the world finishes loading cleanly — confirm the class system initializes and the dungeon encounter generator finishes its setup pass before moving on, since Otherworld leans heavily on both.

Only invite players once that first clean startup is confirmed — joining mid-generation on a party-based, class-balanced pack like this is the easiest way to end up with a broken dungeon instance or a corrupted character state.

Take a backup before any world import, loader update, or config change — a bad update here can wipe class progression and dungeon loot that a party has spent hours earning, which is a much bigger loss than on a plain survival world.