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Valheim server planner

Two questions, and a reading of what Iron Gate documents about each. Worth saying up front: they publish no memory or processor figure for a dedicated server, so this planner gives you context and names that gap rather than papering over it with a number.

How many people will usually play together?

Between 1 and 10, which is the range Iron Gate publishes as supported at 1.0. It is context only — no published statement turns a player count into memory or a processor, so there is nothing here to sort you into.

Do you expect to put up large builds?

Iron Gate names large builds as a performance consideration at 1.0, even after optimisations such as zones loading and unloading and faster saving. They attach no memory or processor figure to any build size, so neither do we.

Answer both to see the reading.

How this works, and what it will not do

There are no baseline, extra headroom or demanding tiers here. The reason is what the Valheim evidence contains: Iron Gate documents the 1 to 10 player range and discusses large-build performance, and publishes no hardware figure for a dedicated server at all. With no published figure, there is nothing for a tier to be a tier of — a baseline and a demanding band would be two numbers we invented and attributed to nobody.
Player count is context. It confirms your group sits inside the published supported range, and it sets no figure, because no official statement connects a number of players to memory or a processor.
The large-build question reports a documented consideration and stops there. Iron Gate names it, including after 1.0's optimisations, and attaches no measurement to it. A direction without a magnitude stays a direction.
We did not ask about world age, how much of the world you have explored, or mods. The current official evidence does not turn any of the three into dedicated-server sizing, and mods have no official support at all, so nothing official describes their cost. Crossplay is missing for a different reason: it decides whether port forwarding applies, which is a networking question rather than a hardware one.
Two rows of the reading exist to report an absence. They are marked as absences, and the figures that circulate to fill them — provider sizing tables, community consensus numbers, Valheim's own client system requirements relabelled — are not used here.

Where to take this next

Server Requirements
The full evidence behind this reading: the 1.0 facts, the setup and network documentation, the Linux library versions, and an explicit list of what Iron Gate does not publish.
Self-host or rent
The operational side: your machine, your availability, which documented backend you expect to use, and the work of running a server yourself.

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