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7 Days to Die Alpha 19 | How To Setup a Dedicated Server! @Vedui42
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welcome to my channel survivor today
we're going to be looking at how to set
up and dedicate this server file find 19
an experimental version specifically
there are many ways to run a multiplayer
game with your friends you could just do
it straight from your game client just
open up to your friends and they can
connect but doing so has some downsides
you do have the client and the server
intricately connected so if the client
has any issues you need to restart or
you shut it down or crashes the server
goes down as well if you're playing with
your friends that's not desirable
likewise you have to keep the game
client running the whole time even if
you want to go sleepy you want to go out
and do something else having a dedicated
server really solves that issue because
it's its own program that is running and
your friends can connect even if you're
not connected and the good news is that
steam makes that really easy to install
and set up a small caveat however some
people who install a dedicated server
have issues specifically with port
forwarding not being able to have layers
to join them in the game often this is
due to settings on the router that they
have sometimes as an ISP issue where
they don't allow connections inbound and
if you have a lot of problems there's
always hosted solutions that you can
apply for instance I run multiple
servers on ping perfect and they host
seven days that I have calls as well and
while that costs maybe roughly ten years
dollars a month that's actually not a
lot considering as a 24/7 365 kind of
solution I have an affiliate link below
to ping perfect and if you sign up
through me as well using my discount
code you do get a 10% discount your
monthly charges furthermore it has two
48-hour trial so you can try it out
before you decide what to do but let's
assume you want to take a stab through
doing that through Steam so I have my
Steam client here as well the first
thing you want to do is you want to go
up to games here and select tools and
I'm gonna hunt tick game serious to make
it a little bit easier one of the once
you have here or you can actually just
search for it will be the seven days and
I dedicate to the server a mine sense
latest experimental but I'm gonna show
you how to do that you go down to
properties you go down to betas now if
you do none opt-out of all beta programs
you will get the latest stable version
right now when
Publishing this it's alpha 18.4 of when
alpha 19 drops on Monday you basically
select here you go down and you choose
the latest experimental unstable build
and that means it's going to install it
even if it's not disabled but it could
have some issues that's why it's called
latest experimental unstable build this
home will only show up after the fom
pins released alpha 19 experimental
which should be sometime during Monday
the 29 so once you've selected this one
close it and hit install it will allow
you to decide where you should be
installing it and tell you required
space etc but once you have that
selected you hit next it'll download and
installed for you so while this is
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steam will telling you that it's
completed the download and it says a
launch but we're not gonna do that just
yet you want to configure it first what
you do is you go to properties on this
server you do local files and browse
local files and that will open up the
directory that is basically the full
install of this server there's a few
things in there the first one is where
you would go forward there log date and
we'll get to that a little bit further
down you'll have the server config the
XML so you want to open that up I use
notepad plus plus because it's a pretty
good way to edit files the server config
dot XML contains most of the settings
that you want to configure for your
server not all there's a couple of
additional things that you might want to
do but this is the main one most of them
have a very good comment of what this is
all about for instance server name most
call it whatever you want to some of the
description URL etc first really
important one is the server password if
you don't want to allow anyone to just
connect to it you set a password for
instance my game servers always have a
password so that I can share with my
friends and the people in my community
server login confirmation text is pretty
good allows the game to pop up a box of
window
before people get admitted into the
server and all tell them to basically
continue it continue to enter all they
can leave which means that if they're
having some time to before the
connection and everything and
initialized is opt before they connect
it gives them an opportunity to you to
sort of leave get some coughing come
back and they haven't actually spawned
into the game until they click continues
this is really useful server port
default you if you don't know what
you're doing don't change this one
because it changes some of the port
forwarding disability again to is public
than anyone concede normally you want to
probably change this to one so only your
friends can see it for instance server
makes player account play around with
this was it really depends on that what
kind of server you have how strong it is
and how good performance it is if you
want to control the server over either
the control panel or telnet you have to
enable an or disable this and depending
on your what you choose make sure you
set a password Oh change them don't use
the default ones you see enabled so ESC
is EC anti-cheat sometimes it gives you
problems so then you want to switch this
to false there's no real harm of having
an enable unless you have problems with
it so I would just leave it truth now
the big ones here we have the game plan
this I configured the world now you get
this is where you set where you're gonna
play with novice game when you're gonna
play with preachin over you're gonna do
a random world generate that so if
you're gonna do novice can dope region
just put that in if you're gonna
generate your own world you have to
change this to rwg so instead of Navis
game put in rwg the seed that one is the
game will generate a world depending on
you put there so asdf will look
different than if i put something like
this and if i this I change it like this
it changes as well because this is just
a seed that it starts to generate from
and what this means is that if I make a
game seed rwg with a game seed of 1 and
if you do want exactly the same way with
RW and one our matches will look
identical a soul that's basically how it
works
size default is 4096 you can definitely
pump this up if you go too high it can
take quite a long time to generate so
4096 or double 8100 and
the two is probably reasonable for
gaming groups and of course your game
name change to whatever you want to have
make sure you maintain it and don't
change it later on because it actually
will impact the folder structure so set
this once and then don't touch it
game wood survival you could do creative
and stuff like that but I'm assuming
you're gonna play or not so I'm not
gonna change that one had difficulty
again some of these settings are same as
you're seeing a single-player and it
will explain a little bit what it's all
about you might want to have an XP
multiplier you can enable or disable the
creative mode daylight length of the
game behaves if you die or if you quit
whether you're gonna drop things so not
a lot of these settings you probably if
you don't if you haven't played around
with these ones before you might want to
just leave them at default if you are an
experienced parent you could tweak them
as you want to for instance Blood Moon
enemy account if you have a really good
system or you don't have too many place
you could bump this one up to twelve or
sixteen which means that you have a lot
more concurrent zombies doing the Blood
Moon whole night some multiplayer
settings down here for party shell kill
range hundred meters default I normally
put at 500 player killing mode I
normally put to kill strangers only or
no killing kill everyone basically means
to be a friendly fire which can be
really deadly when you're playing with
your friends so in this case I'm gonna
go back and I'm gonna change this to
test one the server password and I'm
gonna save it I'm gonna keep everything
pretty much else what it was I'm gonna
close it and this one thing more that I
want to do I want to play around with
this server admin to xml's
unfortunately the server admin found
it's not here a way to access it the
easiest one is just go to your Start
menu and type in percentage AppData
percentage and that will give you
location off all your application data
if you know where that is then it
doesn't matter but this is how you get
it easily do an update a lookup and then
you go to seven days to die and you can
go into saves now this is the server
admin to XML and you want to use that
one for one very specific reason it
allows you to set that admins otherwise
you don't even have admin powers for
yourself when you're playing the game so
all you do is that you copy let's say
this line
here I'll beat that one I put it here so
that's outside of the comment 1 and then
you put in your steam64 ID you can get
this one through Steam and it's a nice
thing that they added on here you can
put it in a name this was a problem for
they didn't actually have this so when I
was running my service I put in all the
Steam IDs and I had a long list of them
and then I actually don't know what what
the numbers actually correspond to so I
have to keep an offline file and
everything so I'm really glad they added
this hint and you know it's just helpful
but make sure you do that and change
this into your own steam ID
don't leave the default one if you don't
do that then you don't actually have
admin powers on your own server so you
need to update this one with your steam
64 Eady remember it's the steam 640
which will start with a seven six five
series of number and we want to proceed
to startup so we'll back here on this
theme client and do launch and it will
be starting the server saying that is
writing the log it'll pop up a terminal
window here and let's see you start a
server it'll do some loading it'll tell
you a little bit what happens if there's
any issues it will also throw up some
errors here so it's an easy way to see
if something is really going wrong and
the key thing to wait for here is first
to say start game done it'll say game
server in a successful cetera and that
means the server is running and while
you in the console ear you can actually
type help it'll give you a big listing
of comments that you can do and this
window is good because when you want to
shut down your game you basically tap
shut down
you don't just close the whole server or
kill it in windows task manager because
that can cause some corruption you do as
shutdown and we do that it will shut it
down and we are done
while the server is running after it has
started up you can connect it local on
your LAN and that's a good way to verify
it if you can connect local tool and you
know the server is running fine you can
connect and you know you can play on it
now what happens if well it doesn't
start up there some errors well the
console window will actually tell you a
little bit about it you can also go to
seven days to die server data open up
and you'll see their output logs here
and this output log will pretty much
mimic what was in the console window
that you said that you saw just now
and in my case obviously says that
everything was fine and that I then shut
it down but if there is an issue it will
usually tell this an error and it will
indicate a little bit of information
around what happened normally the only
things that go wrong is that one you
already have a server that is running
and using the pots that it needs to use
but more commonly is that someone while
you probably edited this server config
that XML file and messed it up maybe you
remove something maybe you didn't
enclose something properly and so on if
that really happens go have a look at it
if you really can't figure it out
there's a way to fix it that billable
careful about this do don't do this if
if it's working or you go to properties
and you do verify integrity of tool
files what will happen then it's that
steam will go I find I'm gonna check
every file to make sure it's the default
file and if it isn't they're gonna
overwrite it with the correct file now
what also happens then and don't do this
unless you really need to is that if
you've configured everything with a
server configure that XML it will
overwrite it so once you're done and
everything is working it's actually a
pretty good idea to just take that file
and create a copy because it means that
even if you reinstall or update the
server you have this old file correctly
but in a copy that it's not going to get
overwritten this can be an issue for
instance if you are updating the server
from nineteen experimental to nineteen
to ensure of instance or nineteen point
one if you do that the server config
will be rewritten by the default version
and you will lose all the configurations
you're having this you'll lose your game
name you'll lose your CD etc and if you
don't have a copy of that it's really
difficult to recover so always make sure
you have a copy of this file so how are
you all done well not quite normally
you're not quite done because people
might not be able to connect properly
into your server there's one more thing
that you need to do at least one more
thing which is really port forwarding so
what happens now if you run the server
and you are your self connected if you
have a friend on Steam and they connect
or join a game on you or you send an
invite Steam basically handles the
connectivity so they connect through you
through your session and into the server
but if you then disconnect if you quit
and you leave the game their connection
will end up being terminated
as well and you want to resolve that by
having port forwarding that enables them
to input your external IP and port and
they will connect directly to your
server because your router will forward
this on to the game server this can be a
little bit tricky most people who come
to my discord and ask for help or having
issues are having issue with their port
forwarding so I'm going to leave a link
in the description below which has some
resources from that steam on how to do
their portfolio in general what this
means you have to Ford TCP ports you
have to Ford UDP ports and that is done
specifically based on how your router is
function it's all individual individual
models individual brands handle it
slightly differently and that's where
part of the challenge is but keep in
mind these ones normally 26900 TCP and
UDP 26 926 9 or 2 again these are the
default ports if you have changed this
and the server config that XML there
will be different ports but I would
definitely urge you to keep the default
ports while you're setting things up
just to make sure things are working and
if you really need to change it later on
at least you know you have had it in a
working state once so if you don't know
how to do this while here's the site
that is pretty good so I'm gonna click
there cite this with just a link and
this website have a has a bunch of
brands and models willed instruction for
that specifically so I'm gonna check
here of how to do for d-link it in which
is a pretty common router and I'll click
on the specific model that you want to
look at it'll give you some of the
information and it'll tell you how to
log in how to access it but the
important thing is where you end up in
the end is under the advanced and it
tells you to go to port forwarding it
then tells you to verify that have
enable they'll tell you that you click
to enable it such as up here you have to
type in the application IP and
everything TCP ports and the UDP ports
etc and then you click Save Settings and
again make sure you don't use this Xbox
Xbox Live ports you should be using the
the posts that were just shown on the
steam web page which are these ones and
if you get this correctly then your
friends will be able to be by accessing
your external IP
and the port to connect your game server
so what if it still doesn't work well
that's when you have a bit of a headache
unfortunately because now we're into
troubleshooting so the first thing you
want to do make sure that when you start
up the server that it says that it
started up and that you couldn't connect
locally on your local PC if you can it
means the server is running fine and the
problem is elsewhere second thing to do
is verify that port forwarding again
look at the instructions for your
specific router model and make sure
everything is taken in properly you can
have your friend adjoined through Steam
invited cetera that at least shows that
they can connect but if they can't
connect through the IP and port that you
provided either it's the router that
it's not properly configured or if
you're unlucky you might have a pass
through the Windows Firewall when that
popped up and said hey do you want to
accept this or not
so you might want to just temporarily
disable your Windows Firewall and make
sure you re-enable it after you test it
out but if that doesn't work you might
also want to have a final look at
whether your ISP is blocking inbound
traffic there are some ISP Internet
service providers which actually block
inbound traffic once in a while someone
comes to my discard and we're trying to
troubleshoot it and it actually turns
out there is B it's not allowing people
to run a server at home and that
obviously includes game servers so let's
say you've done all this you still can't
get it to work well this is where we
sort of have to open up and see what
else we can do and one possibility is to
go for a hosted server provider they
basically handle all the updates
everything and all you do is you log in
you configure things and you play with
your friends it's you normally open 24/7
365 which makes it a lot easier to
manage if you're playing with a group of
friends it cost is normally around 10
USD per month and I have a link in the
description below for my affiliate link
to ping perfect that I've been using for
many years now there's also a 10%
discount code which gives you attempts
and discount monthly on your charges you
can try that out and they also have a
48-hour trial I use them for my 7 days
that I server or have a conan ex-house I
have actually right now 3 arc survival
of all servers as well so I do use them
extensively myself and if you are a few
friends $10 per month is actually
really reasonable it just solved with
the issue with having a lot of headaches
with a dedicated server installing your
PC is specially if you having problems
with your friends connecting this is
worth the try out I wish you good luck
with your dedicated server install and
hope you enjoy alpha 19 and I will catch
you again next time
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