Game Swap
Turning your server into a different game, and keeping the old one to come back to.
Game Swap turns the server you already pay for into a different game. Bored of Minecraft after six months? Switch to Rust, play a wipe, switch back. It is included in every plan at no extra cost.
How it works
Open the Game Swap tab, pick a game from the list and confirm. The server is reinstalled with the new game and is ready in a few minutes.
Swapping installs the new game fresh. It does not merge with what was there. If you want to come back to your current world later, save it as a preset first — see below.
Presets
A preset is a saved copy of the server as it is right now: world, configs, mods, everything. You can keep up to three.
The normal flow looks like this:
- Playing Minecraft, want to try Rust
- Save current — your Minecraft setup is stored as a preset
- Switch to Rust, play for a few weeks
- Load the Minecraft preset — you are back exactly where you left off
Without step 2, switching away means losing the current server contents. The panel warns you, but it is worth understanding before you click.
Not every game fits every plan
Games have different memory requirements, and the list shows the minimum for each. A 2 GB plan runs Minecraft Bedrock or Terraria comfortably; Palworld and Enshrouded need 8 GB, ARK needs more still.
Games above your plan's memory are shown but cannot be selected. Upgrading the plan unlocks them — no need to order a second server.
After swapping
Three things to check:
Your address changes ports. Each game uses its own port. The panel shows the new one; give it to your players.
Schedules may not make sense. A command written for Minecraft will not work in Rust. Review the Schedules tab.
Startup parameters are per game. Rust has world seed and size, Valheim has a password and crossplay toggle. Have a look at Startup parameters after the first boot.
What does not carry over
Backups are tied to the game they were taken from. A Minecraft backup restored onto a Rust server will not do anything useful — use presets for switching, backups for protecting a single game's data.