Hosting a Conan Exiles server means renting a machine that runs Funcom’s survival sandbox around the clock so your clan can build, raid, and explore the Exiled Lands without anyone keeping a PC online. A hosted server gives you a permanent IP and port, full control over the server name and password, and a panel that handles restarts and backups for you. This guide walks through choosing a plan with enough memory, deploying your server in LoafHub, setting the handful of options you actually edit, connecting your players, and automating the routine work so the world stays up. By the end you will have a Conan Exiles server running on the modern Enhanced build with scheduled restarts and crash recovery in place.
Why Run a Dedicated Conan Exiles Server
Conan Exiles can be hosted from inside the game, but a co-op session ties the world to your machine, your upload, and your play session — close the game and everyone drops. A dedicated hosted server runs the Conan Sandbox server process as a standalone program on hardware built for it, so your map, buildings, and character progress persist whether or not you are online. It also gives you a fixed address players can always reach, a real admin password, and a panel that can restart and back up the server on a schedule instead of you babysitting it.
Tip: A dedicated server keeps your Exiled Lands world and clan progress alive 24/7
Tip: Players connect to one fixed IP and port instead of a host who comes and goes
Tip: You set your own server name and password and keep full admin control
Tip: Hosted hardware handles a persistent open world far better than a home PC running both the game and the server
Enhanced vs Legacy: Which Build to Run
Conan Exiles now ships in two flavors. The Enhanced build runs on Unreal Engine 5 and became the default on 5 May 2026; it is what your server runs out of the box on LoafHosts. The older Legacy build runs on Unreal Engine 4 and uses noticeably less memory, so some communities stay on it. You switch between them with the Steam beta branch option in your server’s startup settings: leave it empty to run Enhanced, or set it to the Legacy branch to run UE4.
Note: Enhanced (UE5) is the default — leave the Steam beta branch option empty to run it
Note: To stay on the older UE4 build, set the Steam beta branch option to the Legacy branch
Tip: Enhanced looks better and is the actively developed build, but it needs more RAM than Legacy
Warning: Enhanced and Legacy are different builds; switch branches deliberately and back up your save first, because moving between engine versions can affect your world
Choosing a Plan and Enough RAM
Conan Exiles is memory-hungry, and the Enhanced build needs more than Legacy did. Plan for at least 12 GB of RAM for a vanilla 30-slot server, and 18 GB or more once you start stacking mods. That memory budget is the single most important thing to get right — an under-provisioned Conan server stutters and can fail to keep the world loaded. LoafHosts offers two plan families: Shared starts at $20/mo and Loafbox starts at $30/mo, with Loafbox giving you dedicated CPU threads. Pick whichever tier gives you the RAM headroom your server actually needs.
Tip: Budget at least 12 GB of RAM for a vanilla 30-slot server and 18 GB or more for a heavily modded one
Tip: Choose a plan tier by its memory first — RAM is what a Conan Exiles server runs out of
Tip: Loafbox gives you dedicated CPU threads; Shared gives unlimited CPU allocation across a node
Note: Both plan families use AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPUs, DDR5 memory, and NVMe storage
Picking a Server Region
Latency matters for combat and building responsiveness, so host close to most of your players. Loafbox is available in Montreal, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany. Shared is available in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Frankfurt, covering US East, Central, West, and EU. The Frankfurt location adds $8/mo on Loafbox and $15/mo on Shared.
- List where your core players actually live, not where you live
- For a US East or Canadian clan, choose New York on Shared or Montreal on Loafbox
- For a Central US clan, choose Dallas on Shared
- For a US West or Pacific clan, choose Los Angeles on Shared
- For a European clan, choose Frankfurt on either tier
- If your group is split, favor the region with the most players and the lowest average ping
Tip: Pick the region closest to the bulk of your players even if a tier or add-on price differs slightly
Deploying Your Server in LoafHub
LoafHosts runs the LPV5 panel inside LoafHub at hub.loafhosts.com. After checkout your Conan Exiles server deploys quickly with no setup fees, so you can move straight to configuration. The Enhanced build downloads a large amount of data on first install, so let that first install finish before you start the server.
- Choose Loafbox or Shared, pick your region, and complete checkout at loafhosts.com
- Open LoafHub at hub.loafhosts.com and log in
- Select your new Conan Exiles server to open the LPV5 panel
- Wait for the first install to finish — the Enhanced build is a large download
- Open the Console tab so you can watch the first boot
- Press Start and wait for the console to report the server has started
Tip: There are no setup fees, so the price you saw at checkout is the price you pay
Tip: Bookmark hub.loafhosts.com for quick access to the panel
Note: Stopping or restarting an Enhanced server performs a graceful shutdown and gives it up to 30 seconds to save before closing, which protects the UE5 save format — let it finish rather than force-killing it
The Startup Settings You Can Edit
Most of a Conan Exiles server is configured through the game’s own admin panel and ini files, but the panel exposes a small set of startup options you set once before you go live. You will find these in the server’s Startup settings in the LPV5 panel.
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Server Name | The server name shown in the in-game browser | Pterodactyl hosted Server |
| Server Password | Password players must enter to join; leave empty for a public server | empty |
| Query Port | The port the in-game browser uses to find your server | 27015 |
| Rcon port | The RCON port for remote admin tools | 25575 |
| Steam beta branch | Empty runs Enhanced (UE5); set the Legacy branch to run UE4 | empty |
| Auto Update | Updates the server files to the latest build on start | enabled |
Tip: Set a server name your community will recognize before you ever start it publicly
Tip: Leave Server Password empty for a public server, or set it for a private clan server
Tip: Leave Auto Update enabled so your server stays current with game updates on each start
Warning: Change the Query Port or Rcon port only if you have a reason to — your server is provisioned with working ports, and changing them means players and admin tools must use the new values
Connecting Your Players
Once the server boots cleanly it appears in the in-game server browser under the name you set. The most reliable way in, especially for a private or freshly started server, is Direct Connect with the IP and game port from the panel.
- Confirm the console shows the server has started
- Copy the server IP and game port from the panel
- In Conan Exiles, search for your server name in the browser, or use Direct Connect with the IP and port
- Enter the Server Password if you set one
- Share the IP, port, and any password with your community
Tip: Direct Connect is the most reliable way in when the in-game browser is slow to list a new server
Note: The browser finds your server over the Query Port, so leave that port as provisioned unless you have a specific reason to change it
Scheduling Automatic Restarts and Backups
A long-running survival world benefits from a clean restart on a regular cadence, and from regular backups before anything risky. The LPV5 panel includes a Schedules feature so you do not have to do this by hand. Open the Schedules section of your server, create a schedule, set when it should run, and add one or more tasks that fire when it does.
- Open the Schedules section for your Conan Exiles server
- Create a schedule and give it a name, like “Nightly restart”
- Set the run time using the minute, hour, day-of-month, month, and day-of-week fields
- Optionally turn on “only when online” so the schedule skips a run while the server is stopped
- Add a task and choose its action — for example a power action to restart, or a backup to capture the world
- Optionally set a delay before a task runs and whether later tasks continue if one fails
- Save the schedule, and use Run Now any time to fire it immediately and confirm it behaves
Tip: A power task set to restart, scheduled for a quiet hour, keeps memory clean on a busy server
Tip: Add a backup task before a restart so you always have a recent save to roll back to
Tip: A schedule can be paused and re-enabled, so you can park a restart schedule during an event without deleting it
Note: The panel shows each schedule’s next run time and the result of its last run, so you can tell at a glance that automation is working
Server Auto-Restarter: Crash Recovery
Scheduled restarts handle routine maintenance; the Server Auto-Restarter handles the unplanned ones. It watches your server for known crash signatures and restarts it automatically when one matches, so a crash at 3 a.m. does not leave your world down until you wake up. Auto Restart is available for every game on LoafHosts, including Conan Exiles. You configure it from the Auto Restart section of your server.
| Option | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Mode | Live actually restarts on a crash match; Dry run only records the match so you can test before arming it |
| Cooldown | Minimum seconds between auto-restarts, from 30 to 3600 |
| Restart delay | Seconds to wait after a crash is detected before restarting, from 0 to 3600 |
| Rate limit per hour | Maximum auto-restarts allowed in an hour, from 1 to 30; exceeding it pauses auto-restart |
| Notify on trigger | Sends you a panel notification each time the server is auto-restarted |
| Notify on pause | Sends you a panel notification if auto-restart pauses after hitting the rate limit |
The crash signatures the watcher looks for are defined at the game level and shown read-only in the panel, so you cannot break the watcher with a bad pattern. If the build you are running does not ship signatures yet, the panel shows a “no patterns yet” notice and the watcher simply does nothing until patterns exist.
- Open the Auto Restart section for your server
- Start in Dry run mode so you can confirm it detects crashes without restarting
- Set a cooldown and a rate limit per hour that suit how chatty your server is
- Turn on Notify on trigger and Notify on pause so you hear about both
- Switch Mode to Live once you are happy with how it behaves
- Check the recent events list after any incident to see what the watcher did
Tip: Start in Dry run, watch the recent events, then switch to Live once you trust the detections
Tip: The rate limit is a safety valve — if a server crash-loops, auto-restart pauses instead of restarting forever, and re-enabling it clears the pause
Note: Auto-restart notifications appear in your LoafPanel notifications and link straight back to the server
Keeping the Server Healthy
A Conan Exiles server runs best with light routine care: a scheduled restart during a quiet hour, a backup before you change builds or add mods, and an occasional look at the console for warnings. With Schedules and the Server Auto-Restarter both set up, most of this is hands-off.
Tip: Schedule a daily restart during a quiet hour to keep memory clean on a persistent world
Tip: Take a backup before switching between the Enhanced and Legacy branches or adding mods
Tip: Watch the console after each restart for any errors before your players reconnect
Note: LoafHosts offers a 3-day money-back guarantee on game servers if the host is not the right fit
Frequently Asked Questions
How much RAM does a Conan Exiles server need?
The Enhanced build is memory-hungry. Plan for at least 12 GB of RAM for a vanilla 30-slot server, and 18 GB or more once you add mods. The older Legacy (UE4) build needs less. Pick a plan tier by its memory first, because RAM is what a Conan Exiles server runs out of.
What is the difference between the Enhanced and Legacy builds?
Enhanced runs on Unreal Engine 5 and has been the default since 5 May 2026; it is what your server runs out of the box. Legacy runs on the older Unreal Engine 4 and uses less memory. You switch between them with the Steam beta branch option in your startup settings: leave it empty for Enhanced, or set the Legacy branch for UE4.
How do I set my server’s name and password?
Both are startup settings in the LPV5 panel. Set Server Name to the name you want shown in the in-game browser, and set Server Password if you want a private server — leave it empty for a public one. Save the settings and restart the server to apply them.
Can I schedule automatic restarts and backups?
Yes. The panel’s Schedules feature lets you create a named schedule, choose when it runs, and add tasks such as a power restart or a backup. You can also press Run Now to fire a schedule immediately, and the panel shows the next run time and the last run’s result.
What does the Server Auto-Restarter do?
It watches your server for known crash signatures and restarts it automatically when one matches, with a cooldown, a restart delay, and a per-hour rate limit you control. You can run it in Dry run mode to test detections first, then switch to Live, and it can notify you in the panel when it restarts or when it pauses after hitting the rate limit.
How much does Conan Exiles server hosting cost?
At LoafHosts, Shared starts at $20/mo and Loafbox at $30/mo, with Loafbox giving you dedicated CPU threads. Because Conan Exiles needs a lot of RAM, choose a tier with enough memory for your slot count and modlist rather than the cheapest one. There are no setup fees.
Where are LoafHosts Conan Exiles servers located?
Shared servers are available in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Frankfurt. Loafbox is available in Montreal, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany. The Frankfurt location adds $8/mo on Loafbox and $15/mo on Shared. Choose the region closest to most of your players to keep latency low.
Can I get a refund if Conan Exiles hosting is not for me?
Yes. LoafHosts offers a 3-day money-back guarantee on game servers, so you can try Conan Exiles hosting and request a refund within that 72-hour window if it is not the right fit.