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title: Getting Started With Your Hytale Server
description: A packed guide on how to get started with your Hytale server!
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# Getting Started With Your Hytale Server

A packed guide on how to get started with your Hytale server!

So you’ve got a Hytale server, or you’re about to. Nice choice. This page is your starting point for everything that comes next. Think of it as the home base for setting things up, tweaking settings, and getting your server ready for actual gameplay.

Inside, you’ll find links to guides that cover the whole process, from purchasing your server to getting it online, managing players, and fine-tuning how it runs. You can follow things in order or jump straight to what you need. Either way, this hub is here to make getting started feel a lot less overwhelming and a lot more fun!

## Purchase Your Server

If you haven't purchased a server yet and you do not know where to start, we even have a guide for that!

- [How to Purchase a Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/how-to-purchase-a-hytale-server)
- [Hytale Server RAM Recommendations](/support/games/hytale/game-information/hytale-server-ram-recommendations)

Don't forget to start your game and log into the Hytale launcher.

- [How to Download and Sign into the Hytale Launcher](/support/games/hytale/general/how-to-download-and-sign-into-the-hytale-launcher)
- [How to Change Your Hytale Username](/support/games/hytale/general/how-to-change-your-hytale-username)

## Join Your Server

Now that you've got your server ready to go, it's time to boot up your game and log into the server!

- [How to Join Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/general/how-to-join-your-hytale-server)

## Configure Your Server

Once you've confirmed the server is working in its default state, you can also start configuring it to be exact how you want it to be.

- [How to Change the Name of Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-change-the-name-of-your-hytale-server)
- [How to Add a Password to Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-add-a-password-to-your-hytale-server)
- [How to Enable and Use the Whitelist on Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-enable-and-use-the-whitelist-on-your-hytale-server)

## Player Management

You're going to want or need to moderate your server and your players! These should help with that.

- [How to OP Players on Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-op-players-on-your-hytale-server)
- [How to Kick, Ban and Unban Players on Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-kick-ban-and-unban-players-on-your-hytale-server)
- [How to Change the Max Players for Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-change-the-max-players-for-your-hytale-server)

## Server Management

Don't forget that you're equipped with various things to help manage your server on a daily basis.

- [How to Create Automated Tasks on Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-create-automated-tasks-on-your-hytale-server)
- [How to Upload a Singleplayer World to Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-upload-a-singleplayer-world-to-your-hytale-server)
- [How to Import Singleplayer Player Data to Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/setup/how-to-import-singleplayer-player-data-to-your-hytale-server)
- [How to Make a Backup of Your Hytale Server](/support/games/hytale/general/how-to-make-a-backup-of-your-hytale-server)

## Conclusion

That’s the whole starting map. You don’t have to follow it perfectly, and you definitely don’t have to do everything right now. Get your server online, poke around, change a few settings, and see how it feels. You can always come back here when you’re ready to revisit.

Servers are meant to be tinkered with. Break things a little. Fix them. Make the world your own. And when you need a guide again, this will be here waiting for you.