Colony Survival is a first-person voxel colony simulator built by Pipliz, a two-man studio, and released on June 16, 2017. You plant a banner in an open block world, recruit colonists, and grow a settlement that has to survive the night.
The loop sits somewhere between city builder and real-time strategy. You do not micromanage villagers one by one. You place the job and a colonist claims it, so guards, farmers, miners, foresters and bakers each fill a slot in a food chain that has to keep feeding itself. A tech tree unlocks new jobs and advancements as the colony grows, and every expansion means more mouths to feed and more wall to defend.
Then the sun goes down. A horde of monsters spawns and paths straight at your banner every single night, which turns every wall, tower and archer platform into a real decision rather than decoration. Building that colony with friends is where Colony Survival gets its teeth, and a private dedicated server is what keeps the farms running, the mines producing and the walls standing whether or not the person who started the world happens to be online.
Colony Survival has an active Steam Workshop scene, and mods reach deep into the simulation: new jobs, new blocks, reworked monster waves and full content overhauls. Pipliz has kept shipping updates since launch, so a server that stays current on both the base game and its mod list is the difference between a colony that grows and one that breaks on the next patch.
That simulation is why CPU speed matters more than raw core count for Colony Survival. Every colonist paths, works and fights on the server tick, and monster waves stack hundreds of pathfinding agents onto the same frame. High-frequency CPUs keep that resolution smooth when the night wave lands, while NVMe SSD storage and enough RAM headroom stop world saves from stalling as your colony sprawls across the map.
| Server type | RAM needed | Players | Recommended plan |
|---|
| Small colony | 2 GB | Up to 4 | 2 GB plan |
| Growing colony | 3 GB | 5–8 | 3 GB plan |
| Large colony | 5 GB | 9–10 | 5 GB plan |
Running Colony Survival on a dedicated server means the colony keeps ticking around the clock. Crops keep growing, stockpiles keep filling, and the walls hold through the night whether anyone is logged in or not. You set the difficulty, the colonist cap and the world rules, and nobody else can reset them.
PingPlayers pairs dedicated hardware with Ping AI, which handles server setup, config changes and troubleshooting, so your crew spends the evening building and defending instead of reading server documentation.
