How to Host an Alaskan Wilderness (Forge Labs) Server
Alaskan Wilderness recreates Forge Labs' "100 Days in the Alaskan Wilderness" video series as a playable Forge 1.20.1 modpack, with realistic cold-survival temperature mechanics, predatory wildlife, and brutal weather standing between you and 100 days alive. With 29K downloads, it's one of the more popular 100-Days-style survival packs, but it's distinct from other 100-Days packs in one key way — it's built specifically around temperature and cold-survival mechanics plus wildlife threats, not generic wilderness survival, so your server setup needs to account for that from the start.
Start with a RAM floor of 5 GB. That's the minimum the modpack's own recommendation calls for to run the Forge 1.20.1 mod stack and world generation without spiking, so don't try to squeeze it onto a 2-4 GB plan.
Import the modpack through a proper modpack installer (CurseForge/Modrinth import) instead of manually copying a client export's mods folder — Forge 1.20.1 pack dependencies and version pins are easy to get wrong by hand, and a mismatched mod version will crash the server on the first cold night.
Watch the console through first boot until it fully finishes loading. Alaskan Wilderness's temperature and wildlife systems initialize during world load, and a server that looks 'done' but is still finishing mod init will throw players into a world where cold mechanics haven't ticked on yet.
Only invite players once that first boot has completed cleanly with no repeating errors in the log. Starting the countdown to day 100 on an unstable server just means restarting the clock.
Take a backup before importing an existing world, updating Forge, or changing any temperature or difficulty configs. In a 100-day cold-survival run, losing a world means losing the entire run's progress — there's no casual respawn here.
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