How Many Minecraft Bots Fit on One VPS?

Headless bots are light, so one small VPS can run a lot of them. How many depends on what each bot does.

A rough guide

Idle bots use little memory. As a rough guide, a 2 GB VPS runs somewhere between 40 and 80 idle bots, but treat that as a starting point and measure on your own machine.

What raises the load

• Pathfinding and goto steps
• Mob Grinder and other fighting plugins
• Crop Farmer and Tree Chopper scanning blocks
• Many bots joining at once, such as after a restart

When to add a node

If CPU stays high or memory climbs toward the limit, add a second VPS and move some bots over. The VPS setup guide shows how to install the worker, and hosting explains the options.

Measuring your own limit

Start with ten bots and watch CPU and memory on the Nodes page for an hour. Add ten more and repeat until CPU nears 70 percent or memory nears its limit. Stop there and keep headroom for restarts.

Staggering joins

Starting many bots at once creates a CPU spike and can trigger join throttling on the server. The worker staggers joins after a restart, and you can do the same by hand when you start a group.