Docker - Sons of the Forest Dedicated Server

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This includes a Sons of the Forest Dedicated Server based on Docker with Wine and an example config.

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What you need to run this

• Basic understanding of Docker, Linux and Networking (Port-Forwarding/NAT)

Getting started

We have very detailed instruction in our Wiki page.

If you already hosted some containers, just follow these steps:

1. Create 2 sub-directories on your Dockernode in your game-server-directory (/srv/sonsoftheforest/steamcmd and /srv/sonsoftheforest/game)
2. Setup Port-Forwarding or NAT for the ports in the Docker-Compose file
3. Start the container with the following examples:

Bash:

docker run --rm -i -t -p 8766:8766/udp -p 27016:27016/udp -p 9700:9700/udp -v $(pwd)/steamcmd:/steamcmd -v $(pwd)/game:/sonsoftheforest --name sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server jammsen/sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server:latest

Docker-Compose:

version: '3.9'
services:
  sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server:
    container_name: sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server
    image: jammsen/sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server:latest
    restart: always
    environment:
      ALWAYS_UPDATE_ON_START: 1
      SKIP_NETWORK_ACCESSIBILITY_TEST: false
    ports:
      - 8766:8766/udp
      - 27016:27016/udp
      - 9700:9700/udp
    volumes:
      - ./steamcmd:/steamcmd
      - ./game:/sonsoftheforest
      - ./winedata:/winedata

Planned features in the future

• Feel free to suggest something

Software used

• Debian Slim Stable
• Xvfb
• Winbind
• Wine
• SteamCMD
• SonsOfTheForest Dedicated Server (APP-ID: 2465200)