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Minecraft modpack hosting with CurseForge setup

SkyColonies Server Hosting

Your chosen pack, installed through CreeperPanel. Keep your extra mods through updates and get your friends playing together.

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Premium

From $16.71 for 1 month

Eco

From $4.67 for 1 month

4000MB
Minimum RAM
3x 4.5GHz
Minimum CPU
35 GB
Minimum SSD
_2020 v 1.0
Latest Version

Host your SkyColonies server

Host SkyColonies as a multiplayer server with CreeperHost and let your group build, automate, and expand its colony in a world that keeps running between sessions. We handle the server side while you decide who gets trusted with the next ambitious construction project.

  • Install the full pack in a few clicks without assembling 178 mods by hand.
  • Avoid leaving a home PC running whenever the colony needs to remain active.
  • Give growing colonies stronger CPU performance than casual shared hosting commonly offers.
  • Keep configuration changes during supported pack updates through CreeperPanel.
  • Choose Premium for a long-running world with colonies, machines, and automation.

What Is SkyColonies?

SkyColonies is a Minecraft 1.12.2 Forge pack centred on MineColonies, with technology, adventure, RPG, and harder survival elements around it. Its 178 mods give players considerably more to pursue than colony management alone.

Building Gadgets helps with large construction jobs, while Refined Storage and RFTools support increasingly sophisticated bases. Botania adds magical automation, Pam’s HarvestCraft broadens food production, and Draconic Evolution offers powerful late-game goals. Backpacks, JourneyMap, and various building tools make day-to-day group play less fiddly.

The result is a pack that works well for a committed group: establish the settlement, divide responsibilities, and watch modest early builds turn into something alarmingly elaborate.

Built for a Shared Colony

MineColonies naturally creates multiplayer jobs. One player can plan the settlement, another can gather materials, and others can develop food, storage, power, or equipment. A permanently online server means progress is not tied to one person launching their save and inviting everyone else.

It also gives the colony a single shared world with controlled access and regular backups. That matters when players have invested weeks in buildings, workers, production systems, and storage networks.

CreeperPanel includes GUI-based mod and configuration management, so common server changes do not require rummaging through every file manually.

Hosting Considerations for SkyColonies

SkyColonies is a sizeable 1.12.2 pack, and Premium is our usual starting recommendation for an established multiplayer world. Forge packs from this era commonly benefit from strong single-thread CPU performance as much as memory, particularly once players spread out and build several active systems.

MineColonies settlements can add ongoing processing as they grow. Automation, mob farms, storage networks, and machines may add more tick load, especially when several areas remain loaded. No single build guarantees lag, but dozens of constantly running blocks can eventually make a difference.

Good server habits help:

  • Keep automated production proportionate to what the group actually uses.
  • Avoid leaving large numbers of mobs or dropped items accumulating.
  • Investigate tick problems before compensating with ever more memory.
  • Back up the world before changing pack versions, Forge builds, or core configurations.
  • Restart periodically when a long-running 1.12.2 server begins retaining excess memory.

Our built-in diagnostics can help identify troublesome dimensions, entities, or ticking blocks rather than relying on guesswork.

Why Run SkyColonies with CreeperHost?

Our hybrid VPS platform delivers native CPU performance on hardware selected for modded Minecraft, helping busy colonies remain responsive as the world matures.

CreeperPanel handles installation, updates, backups, and routine management without hiding the files you may eventually want to tune. If something unusual happens, you can also reach real support staff backed by more than 13 years of hosting modded communities.

Build the colony together—not around whoever remembered to keep their PC switched on.

Got questions?

Yes. Order from a modpack page and the selected pack is ready to install. You can also change versions or choose another supported pack later from CreeperPanel.

Our installer prepares the Minecraft version, loader and server files, setting aside recognised client-only mods and addons that depend on them. On supported Forge and NeoForge startup paths, our tools can identify a further client-only crash, disable the responsible file and restart your instance. The file is retained, the panel explains what changed, and that file is remembered for future installations. We have been building our client-pack-to-server tooling since 2017.

Yep. Search for extra mods in CreeperPanel, then install, update, enable or disable them alongside your pack. The panel checks the Minecraft version and modloader, brings in required dependencies and identifies known client-only mods. Your additions stay separate from the pack files, ready for the next pack update.

On Premium and Pro, SaveGuard backs up your supported game saves hourly on a separate machine, with up to 7 days of history. Choose a restore point in CreeperPanel, review the files it will change and confirm. SaveGuard backs up your current world before you roll back too. SaveGuard retention policy

Open Instant Refund in CreeperPanel to see your available refund amount and whether it returns to your payment method or account credit. Review the details, confirm, and it is processed automatically. Instant Refund is available on both Eco and Premium.

On Eco and Premium, Save Your World keeps your supported game saves for up to a year after your service ends, including after a missed payment, and emails you a download link. Keep a copy or take it to another host. Return while the archive is available and CreeperPanel can set up the game and restore your save to your new service. Save Your World policy

Eco is an option for lighter packs. Premium is our usual recommendation for modded Minecraft, with newer hardware, Turbo Start, Bonus Memory and Ask Theo. Choose room for the pack, world and friends you want to bring together.

CreeperHost's generative AI tools drafted this description from information freely available to the public and facts about our own hosting. Our pack automation has been built and improved by experienced members of the modded Minecraft community since 2017; AI helps us describe that enormous catalogue, it does not make the server packs. We review and replace these drafts as time allows or when somebody flags one for the human touch. Spotted an inaccuracy? Please let us know.