OverWarden Download
Windows · Coming soon

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.

Coming soon
Windows 10/11 64-bit · join the Discord to hear when it lands
tower-pc.local:3000 — OverWarden
Fleet
2 PCs · 4 servers · 6 players online
+ New server
Servers
4
Players online
6
RAM in use
9.2 GB
Last backup
3:00 AM
MC
Creek House SMP
Paper 1.21 · 4 GB
Tower-PC Running
ARK
The Island — Boosted
ARK: Survival Ascended · 12 mods
Tower-PC Running
MC
Kids Creative
Vanilla 1.21 · sleeping until someone joins
Attic-PC Sleeping
MC
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 key art — Minecraft server hosting with OverWarden
Minecraft Java Edition
Vanilla, Paper, Purpur, Fabric, NeoForge, Forge — with mods, plugins and .mrpack modpacks.
ARK: Survival Ascended key art — ARK server hosting with OverWarden
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
M
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
M
Mia
/server status
OW
OverWardenBOT
Creek House SMP is running — 3 players on, backed up 6h ago.
M
Mia
nice, hopping on
S
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?
AI
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
58
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
MC
Creek House SMP
Paper 1.21 · 3 players online
Running
ARK
The Island — Boosted
ARK: Survival Ascended · 2 survivors
Running
MC
Kids Creative
Vanilla 1.21 · nightly backup done at 3:00 AM
Running

Get OverWarden

Made by one person for friends who wanted their own servers. No account required.

Coming soon
Windows 10/11 64-bit · join the Discord to hear when it lands
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.
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