Palworld: How to Set up Dedicated Server with Microsoft Azure

First of all, go to Microsoft Azure (https://portal.azure.com), login with your Microsoft Account having an Azure Subscriptions and click Create a resource.

Type Virtual Machine in the search box, search, and click Create.

Configure the Azure Virtual Machine (Azure VM), typing all the required info as shown below (choose subscription, create a new resource group, type Virtual machine name, choose region, availability zone, security type (Standard is fine), and image).

As for the image, you should see in the list “Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition – x64 Gen2”. If you don’t see it in the list, click “See all images” and search for it.

As for the size, you should see in the list “Standard_B1s”, if you don’t see it, click “See all sizes” and search for it.

Click the “Review + create” button.

Once you have clicked the “Review + create” button, you will see the Validation test results and the review page; click Create.

Once you have clicked Create, wait some minutes for the deploy.

Go to your new VM page, click “Networking”, click “Add inbound port rule”.

Open the port 8211 as shown below (Source: Any, Source port ranges: *, Destination: Any, Service: Custom, Destination port ranges: 8211, Protocol: Any, Action: Allow, Priority: 100, Name: AllowAnyCustom8211Inbound).

Click “Add”.

Once you have clicked Add, you have created the new rule to open the port 8211. Now we finally can connect to the VM: in the VM page, click “Connect”, and click “Download RDP file”; once you have downloaded it, open it.

In the Windows dialog, insert your username (if required) and the password you have chosen in the previous section. We are now connecting to the server.

And we are in!

In the just opened new VM with Windows Server, go to “Windows Firewall with Advanced Security tool” and add a new Inbound Rule for UDP Port 8211.

In order to run Palworld dedicated server we need to download and install in our VM the following software:

• SteamCMD for Windows: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD#Windows
• DirectX 9.0 (search the package online; note that Microsoft websites don’t have the real .exe but downloader, if the downloader doesn’t work search for the real .exe from another website)
• Visual C++ for x64: https://learn.microsoft.com/it-it/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2015-2017-2019-and-2022

Now, we can finally run our Palword dedicated server (aka PalServer):

• Install SteamCMD double-clicking steamcmd.exe
• In the same directory of steamcmd.exe open a new Command Prompt (not PowerShell) and enter the following commands:
  1. steamcmd +login anonymous +app_update 2394010 validate +quit
  2. cd .\steamapps\common\PalServer
  3. PalServer.exe

The server is running!

Run Palworld and, in the main menu, choose “Play Multiplayer”.

Insert the IP of your Azure VM followed by :8211 and click “Connection”.

We are online!