Good servers. Good company.
Your worlds. Your friends. Your own server. Tavern brings game-night hosting together on your Windows PC.
01 / A place for your party
Someone in the group always ends up being the server person. Tavern is for them: a desktop app that brings setup, everyday controls, and recovery into one familiar workspace.
Install a new server or bring an existing one. Tavern checks what is ready, explains what is missing, and offers the next useful action.
Start, stop, restart, update, and see connection details without juggling terminals, scripts, or scattered configuration files.
Backups, restore points, activity history, and plain-language diagnostics help you recover without gambling with your saves.
02 / From setup to session
Start fresh or point Tavern at a server and world you already have.
Pick the essentials. Tavern handles what it can and clearly hands off what only you can do.
See the status, copy the join details, and keep an eye on the room from one workspace.
Built for the long game
Tavern is a calm control room for the life of a server—not just a big green start button.
Local by default. Tavern runs on your hardware and keeps management endpoints private. Optional services stay optional.
Start, stop, restart, update, or reinstall with visible progress.
See whether the game, network, and host are ready before friends arrive.
Create and recover backups while keeping worlds in the locations you chose.
Use local network, direct connect, or an optional Playit quick-connect flow.
Give each game its own controls and activity space for your group.
Export a sanitized support bundle when something needs a closer look.
03 / The road ahead
The path is intentionally practical: earn trust on one Windows host, add secure ways to control it, then meet your group on more devices.
Prove the multi-game experience on real Windows hardware and keep setup, settings, recovery, backups, and upgrades understandable.
Turn real friend-group use into better reliability, deeper game-specific settings, and safer mixed-game hosting.
Add secure remote desktop control, then explore Linux, Steam Deck, mobile companions, and more games when they can be tested well.
A direction, not a deadline. Reliability comes before a longer feature list.
04 / Pull up a chair
Tavern is in private beta. The Windows installer is still being validated; public downloads will open here when it is ready.
Private beta · validation in progress
A few things worth knowing
Tavern is Windows-first and currently targets Windows 10 and 11 on x64 PCs. The game servers run on your own computer; Tavern is not a cloud-hosting service.
The current game catalog includes Minecraft: Java Edition (beta), Palworld, Valheim, and Project Zomboid Build 42. Minecraft support is for Java Edition, not Bedrock Edition.
No. Tavern keeps normal server operation local and does not require a Tavern account. Playit and Discord are optional and use their own accounts when enabled.
Tavern is designed to preserve saves, backups, configuration, and runtime state through updates. Game installations, saves, and backups remain in the locations selected by the server owner.
Choose the route that fits your group: local network, direct connect through your router and firewall, or an optional Playit quick-connect setup that avoids router configuration.
