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Windows · Free 15-day trial

Run Minecraft, ARK & Palworld servers your friends can actually join.

OverWarden turns one Windows PC into a game-server host a non-technical person can run. Installs like an app, lives in your browser. No Docker, no command line, no router settings — ever.

Download for Windows

version 0.2.5 · 78 MB · Windows 10/11 64-bit · free 15-day trial, no card

tower-pc.local:3000 — OverWarden

OverWarden

Fleet

Backups

Mods

Discord

Settings

Fleet

2 PCs · 4 servers · 6 players online

＋ New server

Servers

Players online

RAM in use

9.2 GB

Last backup

3:00 AM

Creek House SMP

Paper 1.21 · 4 GB

Tower-PC Running

ARK

The Island — Boosted

ARK: Survival Ascended · 12 mods

Tower-PC Running

Kids Creative

Vanilla 1.21 · sleeping until someone joins

Attic-PC Sleeping

Modded Test Bench

NeoForge 1.21 · copy of Creek House

Attic-PC Stopped

No Docker No command line No port forwarding No account Self-hosted

Supported games

The games your friends already play

Minecraft Java Edition

Vanilla, Paper, Purpur, Fabric, NeoForge, Forge — with mods, plugins and .mrpack modpacks.

ARK: Survival Ascended

Rates and rules edited in the UI, CurseForge mods, auto-updates that wait for players to leave.

Palworld key art — Palworld server hosting with OverWarden

PalworldNew

World settings & rates in the UI, RCON console, and scheduled restarts that tame its memory appetite.

Who it's for

Made for the person who got volunteered to run the server

The family server

The kids want a Minecraft world with their cousins, and you're the designated adult. OverWarden makes that a ten-minute job, not a weekend project.

✓Server sleeps when nobody is on — no wasted RAM

✓Cousins join via an invite link, no router settings

✓Panic stops everything, safely

The friend group's ARK cluster

Official rates are a second job. Run your own island with boosted rates, your mods, and updates that respect your play sessions.

✓Rates & rules edited in the UI — no .ini files

✓CurseForge mods with load-order control

✓Auto-updates wait for players to leave

The tinkerer's homelab

You already run servers by hand. Keep your files exactly where they are and get a fleet view, backups, and a watchdog on top.

✓Adopt existing servers — read-only, never rewrites

✓Link several PCs into one dashboard

✓Test bench: try changes on a copy first

The tools

A control panel that does the worrying for you

Create

A new server in about 60 seconds

Pick a name, a flavor, a version, and how much RAM to give it. OverWarden handles Java versions, ports, and config files so you never see them.

✓Vanilla, Paper, Purpur, Fabric, NeoForge, Forge

✓Or adopt servers you already run — read-only scan, your files untouched

New Minecraft server

Name

Creek House SMP

Flavor

Vanilla Paper ✓ Fabric NeoForge

RAM4 GB

Live in ~60 seconds Create server

Creek House SMP crashed — and it's back up

Watchdog restarted it 40 seconds ago · snapshot taken first

Out of memory

The server ran out of RAM while 5 players explored new terrain. This isn't corruption — the world is fine.

Suggested fix: raise RAM from 2 GB → 4 GB. Your PC has 11 GB free.

Apply fix & restart Show crash log

Watchdog

Crashes explained in plain language

Crashed servers restart themselves before anyone messages you. Then OverWarden tells you what happened — out of memory, corrupted world, a bad mod — and hands you the fix.

Backups

Snapshot first, always

Nightly backups run themselves, and a safety snapshot lands before anything risky — a mod install, an upgrade, a restore. One click puts everything back.

✓Try mods on a copy first with the test bench

✓Uninstalling OverWarden never deletes your worlds

Backups — Creek House SMP

Nightly backup

Today · 3:00 AM · 1.2 GB

Restore

Safety snapshot — before installing Create

Yesterday · 6:41 PM · automatic

Restore

Nightly backup

Yesterday · 3:00 AM · 1.2 GB

Restore

Safety snapshot — before upgrade to 1.21

Tuesday · 8:02 PM · automatic

Restore

Invite friends

creek-house.playit.gg Copy address

Mia wants to join

via your invite link · 2 min ago

Whitelist ✓

Free playit.gg tunnel — your router settings stay untouched.

Joining

Friends join from anywhere — no port forwarding

Built-in free tunnels give every server an address that works from outside your house. Send an invite link; approving someone onto the whitelist is one click.

Discord

The server lives where your friends already talk

Status, start/stop, and backups from slash commands. Two-way chat relay so Discord and in-game chat are one conversation. Works across multiple Discords, with account linking.

#creek-house

Mia

/server status

OverWardenBOT

Creek House SMP is running — 3 players on, backed up 6h ago.

Mia

nice, hopping on

Steve → in-game

mia we built you a house

Copilot Your Anthropic key · off by default

The Island feels laggy since last night — what changed?

Two mods auto-updated at 2:14 AM. Structures Plus now conflicts with your stack-size mod — server tick time doubled. I can roll it back to 1.8.3.

Proposed fix: roll back Structures Plus → 1.8.3

Snapshot first, always · nothing runs until you approve

Approve & apply Dismiss

AI copilot

Ask your fleet anything. Approve fixes with one click.

The optional copilot reads logs, configs, and metrics across every PC in your fleet, explains what it finds in plain language, and proposes fixes. It never acts on its own.

✓Bring your own Anthropic API key — your key, your data

✓Off by default; every change needs your one-click approval

Palworld, handled

Built for Palworld's quirks

Palworld's server slowly eats memory — that's the engine, not you. OverWarden watches memory and server FPS through Palworld's admin API and restarts on a schedule to reclaim it: save first, warn players in-game, never while someone's online.

✓Every world setting in the UI — rates, death penalty, Global Palbox, the randomizer

✓Guilds and bases read straight from the world save

Palpagos Weekend Running

SERVER FPS

MEMORY

9.8 GB

TAMERS ON

5 / 8

Memory-reclaim restart in 21 min

Save → 60-second in-game warning → Shutdown. Waits if anyone is online.

Restart now instead Skip this one

Inside the dashboard

Every server gets a full toolbox

Overview Console Insights Activity Advisor Mods Plugins Players Worlds Files Discord Backups Schedule

ARK servers swap in Rules & Rates and Map & Cluster.

Live console & RCON

A real console on every server, with a command palette — ARK gets a cheat palette so you never memorize cheat syntax.

Insights with event markers

CPU, RAM, and TPS graphs annotated with what actually happened — restarts, mod installs, backups.

The Advisor

Plain-language health checks that catch trouble — low disk, RAM pressure, outdated mods — before players notice.

Players, guilds & sessions

See who is on across the fleet, Palworld guilds read from the world save, and per-player session history from the logs.

Worlds & saves

Swap worlds, duplicate a save to experiment on, browse files — nothing gets touched without a snapshot first.

Mods without the mess

Mod & plugin browser with dependency handling and .mrpack modpack support.

Review before it writes

Config saves show a diff — "XP ×2 → ×5" — with per-change revert, and warn about foot-gun combos before you commit.

The panic button

Stop everything, snapshot everything, lock joins — one click, fully reversible, nothing deleted.

Sleeping servers

Idle worlds doze to free up RAM and wake the moment someone joins.

Live demo

Don't take our word for it — drive the dashboard

This is the real OverWarden interface running on a fake fleet. Open servers, browse mods, trigger backups — nothing can break.

demo.overwarden.com — demo data, resets on reload

Open the demo full-screen ↗

The promise

Your servers outlive the manager.

Game servers run as independent Windows processes. Stop OverWarden, update it, even uninstall it — running worlds keep running, and nobody in-game notices.

OverWarden

stopped · updating · uninstalled — doesn't matter

servers don't depend on it

Creek House SMP

Paper 1.21 · 3 players online

Running

ARK

The Island — Boosted

ARK: Survival Ascended · 2 survivors

Running

Kids Creative

Vanilla 1.21 · nightly backup done at 3:00 AM

Running

Simple pricing

Every plan is the full app — plans only differ in how long they last and how many PCs you can link. One-time payments, never a subscription.

15-day trial

Free no card needed

Every feature, full length, one per person. Starts inside the app.

Up to 1 PC

Download & try free

30 days

$15 one time

A month of everything. Renew only if you want to.

Up to 2 PCs

Buy 30 days

BEST VALUE

Annual

$40 per year

A year of everything, across the whole household.

Up to 5 PCs

Buy annual

Your license key appears right after checkout — paste it into the app and you're done. AI features (crash fixes, Ask OverWarden) use your own Anthropic API key; everything else works without one.

Get OverWarden

Made by one person for friends who wanted their own servers. No account required — download, install, and the free 15-day trial starts in the app.

Download for Windows

version 0.2.5 · 78 MB · Windows 10/11 64-bit · needs admin to install

A note about Windows SmartScreen

Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" because this installer is new and unsigned. Click More info → Run anyway. You can verify the file's SHA-256 below.

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What happens when you install

1.OverWarden installs as a Windows service — it's there when your PC boots.

2.You pick a folder where your game servers will live.

3.The dashboard opens at localhost:3000 — reachable from any device on your network.

4.Uninstalling never deletes your worlds. Ever.