Official Unity Dedicated Server package

The com.unity.dedicated-server experimental package is designed to help developers create and optimize dedicated server builds more efficiently.

The first feature brought by this package is Content selection, which allows you to select which content should go on either the client or the server.

This feature can be used at different stages of the authoring experience, including at the project level, per game objects or per components. It also works with prefabs and addressables.

Client version of a project


Server version of a project

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Requirements

• Editor version 2023.1+
• From Unity Hub, Install the Dedicated Server Build Support module for the platform you’re targeting.
• From the package manager, install com.unity.dedicated-server. As this package is experimental, it needs to be installed by name.

Getting started

To get up and running follow the steps in the package documentation


Current state

This package is currently experimental and is subject to change. It is not yet suitable for production.


What's next

The dedicated-server package will evolve to add more tools to facilitate creating and optimizing a dedicated game server. It will also evolve based on the feedback we will receive. To get a sneak peek at the roadmap or to request a feature, please visit this page.


Feedback

We would love to hear your feedback!

• Do you have any use cases that we haven’t covered yet?
• Are there any workflows that are unclear or missing?
• Do you have any issues or questions about the documentation?

Please share your thoughts in this forum or on the discord - #Dedicated-server-platform-development.


How to report bugs

Ideally, we'd like any bugs reported through the built-in bug reporter tool, as that will automatically provide us with some relevant context. When reporting bugs:

• Please attach a bare-bones project that reproduces the issue to help us diagnose the issue you’re facing with the dedicated server platform or with the dedicated-server package.
• If available, please also attach some log files.

Have a look at this page for more information and best practices around bug reporting.

Once you have submitted a bug report through the bug reporter, please feel free to start a discussion about it in this sub-forum.


Resources

Related to the creation of a dedicated server platform in the Unity editor

• Dedicated server platform documentation
• Com.unity.dedicated-server documentation

Related to hosting and operating a dedicated server in the cloud

• Unity Game server Hosting forum
• Unity Game Server Hosting

Thank you for your interest, we're looking forward to your feedback!

 

Thanks for this feedback.
Although it is not supported officially, we made the package partially compatible with 2022.
This include the content selection feature that is presented above.
Official backport down to 2022 LTS is under consideration, the feedback we are currently gathering is going to help us determine if this makes sense or not.

 

Yes, we have been working on enabling the Addressables case. The first step was to allow Asset Bundles to be built for the Dedicated Server subtarget so it can be optimized.

You will find that the Content Selection feature provided in this package allows you to decide to remove specific components from your prefabs. So, for instance, you can check the "Strip all rendering components" option which is going to remove all Camera, Light and Renderer components from your Dedicated Server bundles.

 

It could work. We develop currently for 2023.x, keeping it --for now, unofficially-- compatibility with 2022.2 as much as we can (some features can be missed). Compatibility with other versions would be entirely incidental.

 

As far as I know there is none. The experimental / pre-release tags mean that the package is in active development. As such, the API might change between the current version and the released one.

We do not have a release date yet but we regularly publish updates on our discord.