How to Change the Player Limit on Your Aloft Server

How to adjust the maximum number of players on your Aloft dedicated server — hard cap of 8 players.

Aloft supports up to 8 concurrent players per server. This is a hard cap set by the game.

Change the Player Limit

In the XGamingServer Panel, click Startup in the sidebar.

Find the MAX PLAYERS field and set your value (1–8).

Restart from Console.

The number of accessible islands scales with player count:

Each player also gets 1 Home Island plus up to 3 shared islands are available.

📝 Note: Aloft's hard cap is 8 players. This cannot be increased beyond 8 regardless of server hardware.

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