Overview

Rivet is intended to help run authoritative multiplayer servers. We do not support peer-to-peer networking yet.

Read more about authoritative vs peer-to-peer networking.

If you want high-performance networking, mobile games, large lobbies, or to prevent cheating, peer-to-peer networking is not a good choice.

This guide is built for Unreal Engine 5.

If you're using a different version of Unreal Engine and need help, please reach out!

You do not need to build the Unreal editor yourself to follow this guide.

Rivet's build system uses Unreal Docker containers to simplify development & deployment.

It's also possible to build your dedicated server by building Unreal Engine from source. This requires many more prerequisites with a complicated & error prone setup process, so we use Epic's Docker image instead.

However, this may be required if using a fork of Unreal Engine. Please reach out if you need help making this work with Rivet.