Soulmask server hosting built for your tribe.

Soulmask's core mechanic revolves around building and managing your tribe. Players recruit up to 20 tribesmen NPCs, each with unique personalities, talents and skills, and can possess any of them with a mask to take over their body. Tribesmen handle tasks autonomously — farming, production, defence and resource gathering — which creates a unique gameplay loop where you lead a tribe rather than playing as a lone survivor.

Every active tribesman consumes CPU cycles for AI calculations. On a busy server where many players each control a full tribe, the node may be processing well over a thousand NPC entities at once. That demands multi-core CPUs for parallel pathfinding and task management, generous RAM to hold NPC states, inventories and behaviour trees, and fast storage for rapid world saves — exactly the hardware profile EUGameHost builds every Soulmask plan on.

Mask possession and tick-rate

Players synchronise consciousness with any recruited tribesman, taking over their body to use a warrior's combat skills during raids or a craftsman's abilities for production. Mask switching needs to feel instantaneous, which depends on responsive server tick-rates — and tick-rate is the first thing to collapse on a low-clock or oversold CPU.

Keeping tribe AI responsive

High-frequency CPUs significantly improve tribe AI responsiveness. Budget hosts with older or lower-clock processors exhibit sluggish NPC behaviour and delayed task completion, so the single biggest lever on a smooth Soulmask server is per-core clock speed paired with enough cores to handle the parallel AI load.

Self-hosting Soulmask from a home PC sounds cheaper on paper, but it rarely is once you factor in the realities. Soulmask is a demanding, CPU-bound server, and running it locally ties up your own machine, exposes your home IP and bandwidth to attack, and takes your server offline whenever your power, internet or PC has a wobble. A residential connection has neither the bandwidth nor the DDoS protection to survive the attacks PvP tribe servers routinely attract.

Renting a dedicated Soulmask server solves all of this. EUGameHost includes always-on DDoS protection free on every plan, a 10 Gbps network, full FTP/SFTP access for deep customisation, automatic backups and 24/7 support for when something needs a human. With no contracts, you can cancel anytime, so renting carries none of the long-term risk of buying and maintaining your own hardware.

Soulmask is one of the more CPU-sensitive survival servers around, and the reason is its tribe AI system. Each tribesman needs CPU cycles for pathfinding, task prioritisation and needs satisfaction, so both per-core clock speed and core count matter — clock speed for responsiveness and cores for handling many NPCs in parallel.

The pressure point is peak time on a heavily populated, modded server. When a full server runs large tribe networks, mod packs and frequent autosaves all at once, a low-clock or oversold CPU sees NPC behaviour turn sluggish and saves cause stutter. A strong multi-core processor, fast DDR4/DDR5 memory and PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage are what hold performance steady when it matters most.

CPU and RAM by player count

Small tribes of 10–30 players run comfortably on 16 GB DDR4; 30–50 players want 24 GB to handle multiple NPC tribesmen active at once; and 50–70 players or heavy mods need 32 GB DDR5. EUGameHost's Ultra plan pairs 8 high-clock cores with 32 GB DDR5 for exactly this kind of maximum-population, mod-heavy server.

Storage: why NVMe matters

NVMe SSDs cut world save times by 60–80% compared to SATA SSDs, and Soulmask autosaves world data, tribe states and NPC positions frequently. Fast storage prevents the lag spikes that plague servers on shared SATA disks, speeds up server startup and slashes backup restore times — every EUGameHost plan ships with PCIe 4.0 NVMe as standard.

Soulmask supports both PvP and PvE on private servers, and the mode you choose shapes both the gameplay and the hardware demand. PvE focuses on cooperative survival — no player damage, ideal for role-play and casual communities — while PvP enables tribal raids, territorial control and player combat, which demands stable performance during large raids, fast saves to prevent rollbacks, and proper DDoS protection because competitive servers are frequent targets.

Private servers expose extensive customisation through the config file at /Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini — resource and XP multipliers, tribe member limits, damage multipliers, day/night cycle speed, creature spawn rates and building decay timers. EUGameHost's configuration editor lets you change these with clear labels and validation instead of editing raw files, so a casual PvE world, a hardcore PvP server or a balanced role-play setup are all a few clicks apart.

Soulmask server hosting is priced mainly on the hardware tier you choose — more cores, more RAM and faster storage for bigger, more heavily modded tribes. A small tribe costs very little to run, while a busy, mod-heavy server at peak time needs more multi-core horsepower, and the pricing reflects that.

EUGameHost's Soulmask plans start from £4.99 per month for the Starter (4 cores, 16 GB DDR4, 80 GB NVMe), with the Pro at £7.99 per month (6 cores, 24 GB DDR4, 125 GB NVMe) and the Ultra at £12.99 per month (8 cores, 32 GB DDR5, 150 GB NVMe). Every plan includes unlimited players, and committing annually saves you 20%. There are no contracts and you can cancel anytime, so you're free to scale your plan up before a big launch and adjust it afterwards without penalty.

Location is the difference between responsive tribe play and a server that feels laggy for half your players. Soulmask is sensitive to latency — combat, mask switching and close interactions all come down to fractions of a second — so you want your server hosted as close as possible to the bulk of your player base to keep ping low and synchronisation tight.

EUGameHost hosts Soulmask in the United Kingdom with routing optimised for European players, which makes it the natural home for UK and EU communities. Run the live latency test at the top of this page to check your real ping before you buy, and where your community spans regions, host close to the largest group so nobody is stuck at a high-ping disadvantage.