Source-checkedQuality of life & UI

NetworkTweaks

by Evil Factory · for Barotrauma

Requires server-side Lua to work This is a completely server-side Lua mod that does some tweaks to the game's networking in the hopes of making it less painful. What does it change? Forced network…

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2 yr agoLast updated
1 KBFile size
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About NetworkTweaks

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Requires server-side Lua to work This is a completely server-side Lua mod that does some tweaks to the game's networking in the hopes of making it less painful. What does it change? Forced network…

Requires server-side Lua to work

This is a completely server-side Lua mod that does some tweaks to the game's networking in the hopes of making it less painful.

What does it change?

  • Forced network health update interval to zero, health will now update instantly and not sometimes take 2 seconds to get updated by the server.
  • Characters ""far"" away from you now have their position updated instantly instead of every 1 second.
  • The max amount of network events sent every update was changed from 4 to 8, should improve the situations where the entire server freezes for about 3 seconds because thousands of network events were generated at the same time.
  • Minimum mid round sync timeout changed from 10 to 100 seconds.
  • Old event kick time changed from 30 to 50 seconds.
  • Hull sparse network update interval changed from 5 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
  • Hull network update interval changed from 0.5 to 0.1 seconds.

Tickrate

Barotrauma has a tick rate setting, by default its 20, you can go to your game files and edit serversettings.xml to increase it up to 60. Might be a good idea for PvP. Increasing tick rate results in even more network updates being sent.

Consequences?

No idea, tested those settings in a PvP server, seems fine. People with really bad internet might suffer because of the increased amount of network updates.

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

A 1 KB download, rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 2 yr ago.

NetworkTweaks on Nxeon

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One-click install
Not available. One-click install isn't available for this game's mods yet. Download it and upload it to your server in Files.
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Barotrauma — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
2024-09-14, released 2024-09-14, 1 KB

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Workshop

From 1 recorded build of NetworkTweaks.

Dependencies

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run NetworkTweaks on a Barotrauma server

Deploy a server above, then upload the file in Files.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Steam Workshop as “Workshop”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Compatibility

Game
Barotrauma
File size
1 KB

Verified at the source

  • ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-10Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorEvil Factory, as published on Steam Workshop
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

NetworkTweaks, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Is it free?

Yes. NetworkTweaks is free to download from Steam Workshop.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

One-click install isn't available for this game's mods yet. Download NetworkTweaks from Steam Workshop and upload it to your Nxeon Barotrauma server in Files.

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