What is RedM?
What the client actually is, how it differs from Red Dead Online, why every server is its own game, and what you need to own before any of it works. Read this first if the word "framework" means nothing to you yet.
Four guides · Written from this side of the Pacific
Reading before you ride
Four pages, written in the order a new player needs them. None of them is an advertisement for this server, and the last two are written so you can turn them on us as easily as on anybody else.
Most of what is written about RedM assumes you are in North America. That assumption quietly changes the advice, because the two questions that matter most to a player in Sydney or Auckland, where the machine is and who is awake when you are, do not come up at all when the answer is always "close enough". These guides are written from this side of the Pacific.
Start here
If you have never played RedM
How to install RedM on Windows
The download, the first run patch, where the files land, how to clear the cache, and the handful of errors that stop most first installs. Roughly forty five minutes, most of it waiting.
Then
If you are choosing where to play
Australian RedM servers, latency and hosting
Why a Sydney box answers in roughly 10 to 40 ms and a North American one in 160 to 230, what that difference does to a gunfight and a horse, and how to measure your own route rather than trusting a number in an advertisement.
Best RedM server in Australia and OCE
The five things that separate a good Oceanic server from a busy one, as a checklist you can apply to any server. It ends with this server's own answers to it, including the ones that will put some people off.
A note on who wrote these
The Pub is an Australian RedM server, so we have an obvious interest in what you conclude. The guides are written to be useful whether or not you end up here, and the checklists are honest enough to be used against us. Where a page states something about this server it states a fact you can check, not an opinion about how good it is.
If something on these pages is wrong or has gone out of date, say so in the Discord and it will be fixed.
Read enough
Then here is what is actually built on this server, the house rules, and how to ride in.