Thats weird, i check on settings how much i have of ram and it appear i have 8 gb, at the wiki said something about putting more ram into the game (?), im gonna try that for now and see what happens
At a glance, it seems like you might not have sufficient ram?
The console log shows that you only have ~70mb available out of 3gb max, while Zomboid lists 8gb in the system requirements.
I am using a headless VPS running Ubuntu Server 26.04 which I planned to use to host a zomboid server for my friends. I firstly tried configuring the stable version which worked flawlessly, untilI tried b42 and no matter what I tried it would always break.
What I did:
Following the wiki steps (including Magnet AFK's guide as reference);
Running start-server.sh after installing everything;
Once hosting the server would forcefully shut down after multiple errors.
What I also tried:
Downloading and running the pz dedicated server on my PC which does get steam running but my router has upnp off.
Redoing the installation process multiple times making sure I didn't miss anything (including reinstalling PZ dedicated server).
As ideas for the cause of such errors could be SLF4J not working as expected, nevertheless I don't know how I can solve this myself.
The 14-55 log is from the PC, the 15-49 log is from the VPS.
VPS specs:
OS: Ubuntu Server 26.04
4 vcores
8 GB RAM
75 NVMe SSD
2026-06-15_14-55_DebugLog-server.txt 2026-06-15_15-49_DebugLog.txt