Tools
This section collects lightweight planning tools that sit next to the main documentation. They are designed to help you size a host, estimate backup footprint, and sanity-check decisions before you commit to hardware or storage policy.
These tools are intentionally opinionated. They reflect 57 Studios guidance bands, not procurement-grade guarantees, benchmark replacements, or live telemetry from your own estate.
Available calculators
GUID / ID Generator
Generate fresh GUID values in the formats used by modders and reserve a simple numeric ID block for planned asset or item work.
Mod Package Estimator
Estimate likely Workshop download size and installed footprint from your texture, audio, mesh, and map mix before you publish.
Server Hardware Sizing
Estimate a practical hardware band for a test rig, small live community host, or a production-oriented deployment based on player count, mod load, and redundancy expectations.
Backup Storage Estimator
Estimate how much active backup storage your restore points need, how much headroom to reserve, and when a single backup target becomes too small for the retention policy you picked.
How to use these
- Use the calculators for early planning and comparison, not as a final purchasing authority.
- Use the generators and estimators as workflow helpers, not as authoritative validation against a live repo.
- Treat any production-facing recommendation as a starting point, then validate it against the full self-hosting documentation.
- Re-run the backup estimator whenever save size, retention policy, or server count changes materially.