Smalland: Survive the Wilds is an open-world survival crafting game developed and published by Merge Games. It shrinks you down to the size of an insect as a Vanguard, dropped into a vast overgrown world where towering blades of grass, roaming predators, and giant insects turn an ordinary backyard into a dangerous frontier. After time in Early Access, it reached its 1.0 release in April 2024 on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.
At its core, Smalland: Survive the Wilds is about taming. You climb plants, scale a world built around real verticality, and tame insects and creatures to ride, fly, and fight alongside you. Between crafting gear, hunting for food, and building shelter off the ground, you carve out a foothold against spiders, beetles, and the threats that come out after dark. Online co-op lets a group of up to 10 players share one world and split the work of survival.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds rewards persistence. Bases grow taller, tamed creatures fill out a stable, and the map opens up as your crew pushes deeper into the Wilds. From a small co-op group to a larger community server, a private dedicated Smalland: Survive the Wilds server keeps your shared world, your tames, and your builds intact across every session, online whenever your friends are.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds runs a single shared world with persistent bases, tamed creatures, and a living ecosystem of insects and predators that keeps simulating whether you are online or not. The more players you bring into the Wilds and the larger your builds and stables grow, the more work the server does to keep everything in sync.
That makes Smalland: Survive the Wilds both CPU and RAM sensitive at higher player counts. High-frequency CPUs keep creature AI and physics smooth, NVMe SSD storage protects your world save from lag and corruption, and DDR5 RAM keeps a busy co-op session responsive. Pick your plan based on how many players share the world and how big you plan to build.
| Server type | RAM needed | Players | Recommended plan |
|---|
| Small co-op | 5 GB | 1–4 | 5 GB plan |
| Group survival | 7 GB | 4–8 | 7 GB plan |
| Community server | 10 GB | 8–10 | 10 GB plan |
Running Smalland: Survive the Wilds on a dedicated server hands your group full control over the world: survival difficulty, day length, player slots, PvP rules, and how punishing the predators get. Your shared Wilds stays online 24/7 with a persistent save that does not depend on any one player keeping their console or PC running.
A dedicated Smalland: Survive the Wilds server removes host advantage, lifts the hardware ceiling, and keeps co-op smooth as your stable and base grow. PingPlayers pairs high-performance hardware with automated backups, 24/7 real human support, and an integrated Ping AI assistant that handles setup, applies the right settings, and sorts out common issues so your crew spends time surviving, not configuring.
