{"id":2485,"date":"2023-02-12T21:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:08:53","slug":"how-to-set-up-a-dedicated-server-for-sons-of-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/how-to-set-up-a-dedicated-server-for-sons-of-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sons Of The Forest Dedicated Server: How to install"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-1024x240.jpg\" alt=\"sons of the forest dedicated server\" class=\"wp-image-2492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-1024x240.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-600x141.jpg 600w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-768x180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-370x87.jpg 370w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-270x63.jpg 270w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-570x134.jpg 570w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1-740x173.jpg 740w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sons-of-the-forest-server-hosting-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this guide we are going to show you how to install sons of the Forest dedicated server to your local PC or rent one from us. In <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/1326470\/view\/3689059134033383639?l=english\">Patch 07 <\/a>Sons of the Forest released dedicated servers before this the game used to have p2p server multiplayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-install-sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server\">How to install Sons of the Forest Dedicated Server<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The game server can be downloaded from Steam directly (logged in), or completely anonymously (no Steam account needed) via SteamCMD tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-method-1-installing-sotf-dedicated-server-using-steam\">Method 1: Installing SOTF dedicated server<strong> using  Steam<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The dedicated server will be available in the <strong>Tools<\/strong> section of your Steam library. You can also find it using the search bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5.png 1010w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5-600x356.png 600w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5-370x220.png 370w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5-270x160.png 270w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5-570x339.png 570w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-5-740x440.png 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-method-2-installing-sotf-dedicated-server-using-steamcmd\">Method 2: Installing SOTF dedicated server<strong> <\/strong> <strong>using SteamCMD<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can install the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.valvesoftware.com\/wiki\/SteamCMD\">SteamCMD<\/a><\/strong> tool for Windows directly from Valve&#8217;s website, available <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.valvesoftware.com\/wiki\/SteamCMD\">here<\/a>: This page also contains the complete documentation of the tool, but you shouldn\u2019t require anything besides what\u2019s in this guide to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To install or update the game, start <strong>SteamCMD<\/strong> then type in (with modified install directory if needed, in our example we will install the server to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><code>c:\/sons-dedicated<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>force_install_dir c:\\sons-dedicated\\ login anonymous app_update 2465200 validate<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more advanced users, it is also possible to chain these commands by directly typing in Windows command line (or from a batch file). This could prove useful if you want to set up automatic auto-game updates for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>steamcmd.exe +force_install_dir \"c:\/sons-dedicated\/\" +login anonymous +app_update 2465200 validate +quit<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-method-3-how-to-create-sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server-using-using-windowsgsm\">Method 3: How to create Sons of the Forest  Dedicated server using using WindowsGSM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-windowsgsm-installation\"><strong>a. WindowsGSM Installation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Step 1<\/strong>: Download WindowsGSM from the official website:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/windowsgsm.com\/\">WindowsGSM<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 2<\/strong>: Choose a location on your computer where you want all servers to be installed and run. Create a folder there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Drag the&nbsp;<code>WindowsGSM.Exe<\/code>&nbsp;file into the folder you just created.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 4<\/strong>: Execute the&nbsp;<code>WindowsGSM.Exe<\/code>&nbsp;file. this will generate extra folders and files i.e&nbsp;<code>backups,bin,configs,logs,plugins,servers, MahApps.Metro.dll<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"893\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear.png 893w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear-600x222.png 600w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear-768x284.png 768w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear-370x137.png 370w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear-270x100.png 270w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear-570x211.png 570w, https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/folders-and-files-will-appear-740x273.png 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-b-sons-of-the-forest-windowsgsm-plugin-installation\"><strong>b.\u00a0<\/strong>Sons of the Forest <strong>WindowsGSM<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Plugin Installation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Step 1<\/strong>: Download the latest release of the plugin from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ma-halo\/WindowsGSM.SonsOfTheForest\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 2<\/strong>: Extract the downloaded file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Move the\u00a0<code>SonsoftheForest.cs<\/code>\u00a0folder to the\u00a0<code>plugins<\/code>\u00a0folder in your WindowsGSM directory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the WindowsGSM interface, click on the puzzle icon located at the bottom left side.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Navigate to the location of the downloaded plugin and select the zip file to install it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 4<\/strong>: After installing the plugin, either click on the&nbsp;<strong>RELOAD PLUGINS<\/strong>&nbsp;button or restart WindowsGSM to ensure the plugin is loaded correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 5<\/strong>: Navigate to the \u201cServers\u201d section in WindowsGSM. Click on \u201cInstall Game Server\u201d and look for \u201cSons of the Forest  Dedicated Server [SonsoftheForest .cs]\u201d to install.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Making the Sons of the Forest Server available to the internet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to allow other players to connect to your sons of the forest dedicated server, you will have to make sure your machine is properly configured to allow traffic on the 3 different ports listed below, and in the configuration file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usual required steps are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>setting up the appropriate Port Forwarding rules on your router or hosting service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>setting up the appropriate rules in your operating system Firewall, and\/or in your router\/switches built-in firewalls<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Required Ports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GamePort (UDP): 8766<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>QueryPort (UDP): 27016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BlobSyncPort (UDP): 9700<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These ports are the default ports and can be changed in the configuration file which will be discussed later in this guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When starting, the game server has a self-test procedure that is going to check if the ports are open and accessible. If the test procedure fails, the server won\u2019t start. In this case, you have 2 options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>fix your port forwarding<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>setup the<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;LanOnly&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>flag discussed below, which basically excludes your game from the public listing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exposing a SOFT Server to LAN (Local Area Network)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When making a game available to LAN, you\u2019ll have to consider the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>you may want to optionally set the&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;LanOnly&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;flag to true if you want to hide your game from the internet search<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>in LAN, you shouldn\u2019t need any port redirection if you are running in the same network as the other clients, however you will still have to set up your firewall appropriately<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your local network has to be trusted by your operating system and allow traffic, in order to do this, your Network Profile has to be Private<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>there is a known issue when you have multiple network adapters, in some cases Steam will pick up the wrong one to do LAN games discovery and yield no result. If you have any issue, this can be confirmed by temporarily disabling all other network interfaces, and trying again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sons of the Forest server User Data Folder(Game saves config files &amp; logs)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When running the Sons of the forest dedicated server, it will be using a persistent user data folder for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>reading configuration files<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>saving and loading the game saves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>writing server logs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>etc\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This folder can be either configured to a particular directory, or left to default. The default place where the user data is stored is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>C:\\Users\\&lt;user&gt;\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Endnight\\SonsOfTheForestDS<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be overridden using a command line argument:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>-userdatapath \"c:\/path\/to\/directory\"<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If no argument is specified, the default directory will be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout this guide, we will make reference to this folder as<strong><code>&nbsp;&lt;user data folder&gt;<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sons of the Forest server Configuration Files location<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All configuration files that will be discussed later in this document can be found \/ must be located in the game&nbsp;<strong>&lt;user data folder&gt;<\/strong>&nbsp;as described in the previous section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This folder will contain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the server owners list, in a file called&nbsp;<strong>ownerswhitelist.txt<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the game server configuration, in a file called&nbsp;<strong>dedicatedserver.cfg<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the saves (if the path is not overridden), in a folder called&nbsp;<strong>Saves<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the game settings, in a file called&nbsp;<strong>SonsGameSettings<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that these files do not exist right away after the installation, the game has to be started once for the default files to be created. Not all of these files need intervention to set up the dedicated server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should only need to touch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>ownerswhitelist.txt<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>dedicatedserver.cfg<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sons of the Forest server admin setup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to be able to administrate your server from in-game directly, you will need to set up server ownership using the&nbsp;<strong>ownerswhitelist.txt<\/strong>&nbsp;file. This will allow you, as a player, to have full access to the in-game administration panel (Pause Menu \/ Players) where you will be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>upgrade other players to administrators<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>downgrade other players to guests<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>kick guests<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ban and unban guests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to create the default server ownership file<\/strong>: <strong>ownerswhitelist.txt<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When first starting the server, the default configuration file will be created in the configurations folder, if it doesn\u2019t exist already. You can either create it like this, or simply create a txt file as described in the following sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>File name and format<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to set up server ownership you will have to feed in the steam ids of all \u201cserver owners\u201d in the file called&nbsp;<strong>ownerswhitelist.txt<\/strong>, one steam id per line. When first starting the server, the default configuration file will be created in the configurations folder, if it doesn\u2019t exist already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Server owners have essentially the same rights as P2P server hosts, it\u2019s the highest role and gives access to all commands, so make sure to only add trusted people to this list. Below is an example file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><code>In order to be able to administrate your server from in-game directly, you will need to setup server ownership. Add below the steam ids of every server owner, one steam id per line. To find your SteamID, open Steam and click on your name on the top right, then go to Account Details.<\/code><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>Jane Doe<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>7987654321987<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>John Doe<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>7123456789123<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find your SteamID, you can either navigate to this page&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/account\/<\/a>&nbsp;or directly in Steam click on your name on the top right, then Account Details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Configuration File : <strong>dedicatedserver.cfg<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The dedicated game server can be configured with a JSON file in the configurations folder, called&nbsp;<strong>dedicatedserver.cfg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to create sons of the forest server default configuration file<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When first starting the server, the default configuration file will be created in the configurations folder, if it doesn\u2019t exist already. You can either create it like this or simply create a JSON file as described in the following paragraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>File name and format<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our configuration file is written in JSON format. You can find online a multitude of resources that can teach you how to deal with such files. We will list below some basic mistakes when editing JSON files:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>keys are always written in quotation marks and followed up by a semicolon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a textual value will always be written in between quotation marks \u201cthe text\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>integers, floating point values, and boolean (true\/false), will be written without quotation marks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>each setting (key-value pair) must be followed up by a comma (,)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>some settings can be set to null, which means that they have no value. The outcome depends on the settings and is described in the documentation below<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>no setting is mandatory, if the setting doesn\u2019t exist it will be replaced by its default value<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the order doesn\u2019t matter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The file name has to be&nbsp;<strong>dedicatedserver.cfg<\/strong>&nbsp;and contains a JSON formatted document that defines all parameters related to the game server configuration. It has to be placed in the configurations folder. 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