Dedicated_Valheim_Server_Script VS valheim-docker

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

Playground for development and hosting production-grade projects, like my Valheim project.

I use Docker for my servers using this image. If you want to give it a try here's my docker-compose.yml

I'm no stranger to linux servers, so I followed [this guide to host a valheim server using EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gametech/hosting-your-own-dedicated-valheim-server-in-the-cloud/). Which uses [mbround18's docker image to run the server software](https://github.com/mbround18/valheim-docker), I quickly ran into similar issues to the person in [this post, with too much backing up](https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/vibi6t/i_setup_a_cloud_hosted_valheim_dedicated_server/) and made similar fixes.

My Valheim Server uses docker container instructions from mbround18 on Lightsail. If you want to use the beta for your server you will need to add this to your docker-compose.yml at the end of the environment section.

Details of my setup: docker I used is from: https://github.com/mbround18/valheim-docker

Again, this isn't necessarily a problem, but other than mentioning that it is running in a container and that you need to make some changes to docker-compose.yml to update the server password there isn't much detail given about the container setup in the blog post. If you do some searching based on things in the docker-compose.yml you'll find that it's running this Valheim container setup https://github.com/mbround18/valheim-docker

well I ended up using following this guide and that image and it worked first try. I'll see with the other image if the issue was just with UFW

The easiest way I've found for managing updates is by running the dedicated server in a docker instance. Specifically I've had the best experience using the image available from the repo linked below. https://github.com/mbround18/valheim-docker

How did you install the server? If you used other tools that automated some of the process, they might have a way to do it more easily. For example, I used this docker container, and updating is as simple as restarting the docker container: https://github.com/mbround18/valheim-docker

If you're comfortable in the console, you can set one up fairly easily using this valheim docker container: https://github.com/mbround18/valheim-docker