The Dark Fantasy Server Hosting

Each QA Lab test is a boot-and-ping test on a MineXHost QA server: MineXEngine installs the modpack, starts the server, and the server must stay running and answer a Minecraft server-list ping (or, if the pack turns that off, accept a connection on its game port). It does not measure sustained TPS, player joins or long-run stability. The full method is on the modpack test results page.

Recorded deployment history

Mixed results. 4 of 8 recorded deployments booted successfully, across 5 MineXEngine builds. Counting deployments on MineXEngine 80.0.0 or newer only. The most recent recorded deployment was on 7 October 2026.

This history covers every deployment MineXEngine recorded for The Dark Fantasy, not only QA Lab tests. A deployment counts as booted when MineXEngine recorded a clean server start. Installs and boots that failed count against the pack, except failures caused by MineXHost's own infrastructure, which are left out.

How much memory it needs

Estimated: 6 GB minimum and 8 GB recommended. MineXHost estimates this from the pack's mod loader (Forge), not from a measurement of this pack. More players and added mods need more memory; the RAM calculator helps size a server. The smallest MineXHost plan that covers 8 GB is Bee (8 GB, $40 a month).

Test servers and customer servers

These results come from deployments MineXEngine recorded on MineXHost servers, including our QA Lab test servers. Test servers differ from customer servers:

• Test servers may automatically remove a mod that crashes the server.
• On a customer server, MineXEngine sets aside mods that cannot or should not run there before the first start, such as mods made only for the game client, a second copy of a mod that is installed twice, a mod file too damaged to open, and world-backup mods, because the panel already backs up your server. After a crash it fetches a missing dependency on its own. A mod that crashes the server is named, and you decide whether to remove it.
• After a crash, a customer server moves a mod aside without asking only in a few narrow cases: a mod whose mods.toml file is broken, a client-only mod that crashes the server, a mod MineXEngine has shown stops the server from starting while it is installed, a second copy of a mod that is installed twice, and the existing copy of a dependency that MineXEngine replaces with the version another mod needs. An empty mod file is removed. Every other mod MineXEngine sets aside is moved into a separate folder, not deleted, and can be put back.
• Test servers get 12 GB of memory. Plans start at 3 GB, so a large modpack that passes here can run out of memory on a smaller plan.