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• GIT installed in your system
• GIT LFS installed in your system
• SteamCMD installed in your system
• Broadband internet connection
• Router with the ability to port forward
• Min. 2 GB RAM

.pak files are large and we need to install Git Lfs in order to download them

Run the following commands:

• apt update
• apt install git-lfs

The Steam server browser needs steamsdk and for this we need to install SteamCMD

• cd ~/ Makes sure we are in the home directory
• mkdir steamcmd Makes SteamCMD directory
• cd steamcmd Goes to the SteamCMD directory
• apt install lib32stdc++6 Install lib32std
• wget https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz Downloads SteamCMD Tar File.
• tar -xvzf steamcmd_linux.tar.gz Extracts SteamCMD
• ./steamcmd.sh Runs the Steam CMD Shell

Steam CMD will install updates automatically but we need to login to install 64bit sdk.

Wait for the Steam> to appear and then you type following commands:

• login anonymous
• app_update 1007
• quit

We still need to move the sdk to default location where the server tries to

• cd ~/.steam Go to the steam folder
• mkdir sdk64 Create folder for the sdk
• mv ~/steamcmd/linux64/steamclient.so ~/.steam/sdk64/ Move the steamclient.so from SteamCmd to .steam/sdk64 folder

After this we want to make sure we are in home directory

• cd ~/

Then we can clone the Linux repository

• git clone https://github.com/Uuvana-Studios/longvinter-linux-server.git

Then we want to give permission for this folder to execute commands with

• sudo chmod -R ugo+rwx longvinter-linux-server/

After this we can open the required ports by executing the shell script inside the repository -bash longvinter-linux-server/network-ports.sh

Server values can be customized with Game.ini

Create the file for edit with nano ~/longvinter-linux-server/Longvinter/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/Game.ini

Add the following content there

[/Game/Blueprints/Server/GI_AdvancedSessions.GI_AdvancedSessions_C]
ServerName=Unnamed Island
MaxPlayers=32
ServerMOTD=Welcome to Longvinter Island!
Password=
CommunityWebsite=www.longvinter.com

[/Game/Blueprints/Server/GM_Longvinter.GM_Longvinter_C]
AdminSteamID=76561198965966997

• ServerName: Name that shows up in the server browser. Please don't call your server with OFFICIAL name. We want players to clearly know if they are joining a server that is hosted by other players.
• ServerMOTD: Server message that is on a signs around the island.
• MaxPlayer: Maximum allowed players that can connect at any given time.
• CommunityWebsite: Allows you to promote a website on a same place where the server message is shown. This link can be opened in-game.
• Password: Add you password here. Use only number and letters. If left empty there is no password on the server.
• AdminSteamID: Here you can add all the admins that you want to have in the server. If you want to add multiple separate id's with single space.
  • AdminSteamID=76561198965966997 11859676569976596

Start the server with shell script

• sh ~/longvinter-linux-server/LongvinterServer.sh

If the console shows these lines at the bottom after startup your server has started corretly

[2022.02.22-12.51.34:514][ 13]LogOnline: Verbose: STEAM: FOnlineAsyncEventSteamServerConnectedGS ServerId: Server[0x1404CD1FF72E008]
[2022.02.22-12.51.34:782][ 21]LogOnline: Verbose: STEAM: FOnlineAsyncEventSteamServerPolicyResponseGS Secure: 1
[2022.02.22-12.51.34:849][ 23]LogOnline: Verbose: OSS: Async task 'FOnlineAsyncTaskSteamCreateServer bWasSuccessful: 1' succeeded in 2.828243 seconds
[2022.02.22-12.51.34:849][ 23]LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Server setting ,TOTPLAYING_s:0 overflows Steam SetGameTags call
[2022.02.22-12.51.34:849][ 23]LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Server setting ,ServerName_s:[EU] Uuvana 1 overflows Steam SetGameTags call

I have created an automated script that you can run to automatically update and restart a server.
Make sure you have nohup installed on your system.

• bash ~/longvinter-linux-server/server-autorun.sh