Dedicated server, yes, but I like the limit of 4 players... Not too much going on, and gives a bit of a challenge! Otherwise, you've got that little yard too busy with 4 people exploring/crafting all the time. Before players would die of thirst or hunger, I would leave my son's low end PC on with a player so that I could join whenever on my PC and my son & wife join via Xboxes. That's changed now obviously, but it was also nice bc my son could swap between players/ devices without really "leaving" or quitting, etc. He would just dump the backpack out and re-pickup items etc.