© Haptic, LLC- Summer sale is on! We're giving everyone 30% off their new server at checkout!
*30% off applies automatically at checkout for your first month. Ends September 30, 2026.
© Haptic, LLC*30% off applies automatically at checkout for your first month. Ends September 30, 2026.
HapticGuideYour server sleeps when nobody is playing and wakes when someone wants in. Your world is backed up and preserved automatically.
Wake & Play is Haptic's way of keeping your server ready without running it 24/7, which is why it costs so much less than an Always On plan. Your server sleeps when nobody has been playing for a while and wakes when someone wants in. Your world is backed up on every sleep and nothing about it changes while the server is off.
When the last player disconnects, a countdown starts, and your server card shows it. After roughly an hour with nobody online, the server shuts down gracefully, backs up your world, and goes to Sleeping.
When you want to play again, press Wake up in your dashboard, or let a friend wake it from your server's public page. Waking usually takes well under a couple of minutes, and everything carries over exactly as it was: builds, player progress, inventories, settings, and mods.
It costs less. You are not paying for a server to idle at 4 AM. That is the entire discount compared to Always On.
Your world is protected while you are away. Creatures do not starve, bases do not decay, and time does not pass while the server sleeps.
Backups come free with every sleep. Each time the server dozes off, a fresh backup is created automatically.
Your address never changes. The hostname stays the same between sessions, so friends can keep it saved and it just works.
Turn on Friends can wake this server in your server's Public Page settings and share the page's link plus the share password. Anyone with both can wake the server from that page when it is offline, so your group never has to wait for you to log in.
Everything is preserved. Sleeping is a clean shutdown plus a backup, not a pause button held down: your builds, explored areas, inventories, configuration, and mod data are all exactly where you left them. Wake & Play never resets or modifies your world.
The address stays put. Your server's hostname never changes between sessions, even if the underlying IP does. Share it once and it keeps working. See What are custom hostnames?
Almost every game on Haptic works great with Wake & Play, including Minecraft, Valheim, Palworld, Terraria, Satisfactory, Don't Starve Together, Project Zomboid, and Enshrouded: their worlds simply do not progress while the server is off.
A few games must run 24/7. Rust wipes and server rankings expect a server that never disappears, and FiveM and RedM keep long-running script state. These games require an Always On plan and never sleep.
