Dedicated_Valheim_Server_Script VS docker-steamcmd-server

i agree with everything u/~defron~ has mentioned so far. I'd like to add a bit more to the whole OS thing. Windows is a straight no go, unstable, bloated, memory hog, the list goes on. As for linux, there are plenty of choices, although options like UnRaid/Truenas/OpenMediaVault all are great aesthetically wise, gui for managing your users, permissions, storage, containers you will generally always find yourself limited by them at one point or another, especially with the use case you described. Something like ubuntu with mergerfs and snapraid and a samba share took me around 20 minutes to configure. Vallheilm i've not had experience with but after 2 minutes of googling i found this. Minecraft on the other hand is incredibly easy to set up, if you take a look at this repository you can have a paper minecraft server with one command install that auto updates and sets it up for you within 2 minutes. For power saving I'd recommend you set up a systemd script to set powertop --auto-tune to autostart on boot and use hdparm to set hdd sleep time. With all drives spun down I get around 10W idle on ubuntu and around 18W on TrueNAS. ZFS is great, but i don't see it's use for a personal home build. As for your discord scripts, since you mentioned you use docker profesionally, i don't see why you couldn't just make a dockerfile for each bot and run them as containers.

Njord dedicated server script

I’m using the amazing Dedicated Valheim Server Njord which you can find open sourced here https://github.com/Nimdy/Dedicated_Valheim_Server_Script.

Source

So, funny story, shortly after making my previous post, I went and stole some code from this guy's script. Which uses steamcmd.sh and looks in the container's local appmanifest file, compares the two and runs an update. I keep the end result here, the version check stuff is (unsurprisingly) in versionCheck.sh. That repository is my unsophisticated take on running Valheim server in a docker container, with supporting scripts. With a daily job set in crontab on the server to run the versionCheck.sh script.

Use this https://github.com/Nimdy/Dedicated_Valheim_Server_Script

Is there any chance of adding BepInEx support? It's been done on this repo, so probably wouldn't be too hard to add :)

It works natively under Linux with SteamCMD. I used this so I can create one with Docker but you don't need it if you don't want to use Docker https://github.com/ich777/docker-steamcmd-server/tree/valheim