Minecraft modpack hosting with CurseForge setup
CaveColonies Server Hosting
Your chosen pack, installed through CreeperPanel. Keep your extra mods through updates and get your friends playing together.
From $16.67 for 1 month
From $4.66 for 1 month
Host your CaveColonies server
Host CaveColonies as a multiplayer server with CreeperHost and let your group build an underground colony that keeps growing even when nobody wants to leave a PC running overnight.
- One-click pack installation gets everyone onto the right build.
- Premium servers suit expanding colonies and longer-running worlds.
- Home hosting can struggle once colonist AI and active builds pile up.
- Casual hosts often lack useful tools when tick lag appears.
- Your world stays online without one player acting as server keeper.
CaveColonies at a Glance
CaveColonies combines MineColonies with a stoneblock-style world, quests, exploration and a broad selection of building and progression mods. The pack contains 128 mods and runs on Minecraft 1.12.2 with Forge 14.23.5.2825.
MineColonies provides the shared long-term project, while Ex Nihilo Creatio, Ex Compressum and Tinkers’ Construct support progression from limited underground beginnings. Chisels & Bits and building tools give ambitious players plenty of ways to decorate the resulting cavern settlement.
CreeperPanel installs the pack without manual file juggling. When an update is available, its updater can retain your configuration changes rather than flattening every adjustment you have made.
Hosting Considerations for CaveColonies
Colony growth changes the load
MineColonies servers commonly become busier as settlements expand. Colonist pathfinding, active buildings, item movement and nearby players all contribute to server tick time. A fresh world may feel relatively light, while a developed colony with several players can ask much more from the CPU.
For that reason, we recommend our Premium range for CaveColonies, particularly if your group intends to keep one world for months. Strong single-core performance usually matters more than simply assigning excessive memory.
Keep colony layouts navigable, avoid unnecessary chunk loading and watch for machines or item systems that run continuously. If performance changes after a large build or colony expansion, measure tick activity before removing mods or throwing more memory at it.
Keep the pack versions matched
This is a legacy Minecraft 1.12.2 pack, so server and client files need to remain on the same CaveColonies release and Forge version. Avoid casually updating individual mods: older packs often depend on exact combinations of mods, scripts and configuration files.
Back up the world before changing anything significant. Planned restarts can also help older, long-running 1.12.2 servers after extended play sessions.
Why Run CaveColonies with CreeperHost?
Our hybrid VPS platform delivers native CPU performance on hardware chosen for modded Minecraft, which is particularly useful when colony AI starts doing real work.
CreeperPanel includes tools for investigating lag rather than leaving you to guess. On eligible Premium services, Ask Theo can inspect the current server and panel state, explain likely problems and prepare safe next steps for you to approve.
We have hosted modded communities for over 13 years, and real support staff are available when an old Forge pack decides to be interesting.
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 services, SaveGuard keeps recovery points on separate backup storage and shares unchanged data between snapshots. Choose an available point in CreeperPanel: it makes a fresh backup of your current world and shows the files the restore will change before you confirm.
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 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 within that time and CreeperPanel can set up the game and restore your save to your new service.
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.