About NetworkTweaks
From Steam WorkshopRequires 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 dataFootprint
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
From our catalogue- 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
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop |
From 1 recorded build of NetworkTweaks.
Dependencies
- Required: LuaCsForBarotrauma
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 catalogQuality 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
