🚧 Project in early development
This project contains all required components to deploy a ready to use Valheim game server. I made my best effort to had a secure configuration, but I can make mistakes. Review the configuration by yourself.
If you use this software for commercial purposes, please consider making a donation or a horde of bloodthirsty vikings led by Odin will fall on you.
You need to have installed in your system in order to deploy a fully functional game server:
Ansiblemake
If you are on Windows you can use
wslin order to install the game server.
Note that at this time, the game server only supports Ubuntu as base operating system. Choose a Ubuntu compatible cloud provider.
See using packer if you want to create server snapshots in your favourite cloud provider.
First, clone this repository. When done, execute the following command using your own values for the TARGET_USER and TARGET_IP variables that correspond to your server info:
make TARGET_IP=1.2.3.4 TARGET_USER=root ansible-installYou need to provide a
TARGET_IP. Without this variable the command will not work.
Now you need to wait the command to finish. Be patient and take a coffee ☕.
Now that you have your game server installed, you need to change some settings like the gameserver password, world name etc. All this can be configured by editing the /home/steam/valheim/values.env file, assuming the default configuration. Default values are:
| Variable | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|
GS_NAME |
My Valheim gameserver |
The name of your game server |
GS_PORT |
2456 |
Game server port |
GS_WORLD |
Dedicated |
The world name without spaces |
GS_PASSWORD |
secret |
Game server password. Min. length is 5 |
GS_PUBLIC |
1 |
For public servers is 1, otherwise 0 |
When done, the only thing that you need to do for the new values to take effect is restart the systemd service of our game server using:
systemctl restart valheimIf you want to use Packer to create game server snapshots continue reading. Note that the list of currently supported cloud providers is not complete. If you want to add a new cloud provider, create a feature request.
ID:
hcloud
To use Hetzner, first you need to generate a new API token with Read and Write permissions. Save this token in a local environment variable called HCLOUD_TOKEN and then execute this command:
make CLOUD=hcloud packer-runNow, wait until finish.
ID:
vagrant
You will need to have Vagrant and VirtualBox to use this installation method. Just execute this command and wait until finish:
make CLOUD=vagrant packer-runThe resulting box will be created in output-vagrant/package.box
Check LICENSE for more information.