Starbound

Create a user for running Starbound

# useradd -m -s /bin/bash starbound

Become the starbound user so that any file you download is owned by the correct user.

# su -l starbound

Install the Steam command line interface

$ mkdir ~/SteamCMD

$ cd ~/SteamCMD

$ wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

$ tar -xf steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

Test:

$ ./steamcmd.sh

$ Ctrl+C

Obtain and run the server binary

$ mkdir ~/server

$ cd ~/SteamCMD

$ ./steamcmd.sh +login STEAMLOGIN STEAMPASSWORD +force_install_dir /home/starbound/server +app_update 211820 +exit

Run the server

$ tmux new -s starbound

$ cd ~/server/linux64

$ ./launch_starbound_server.sh

$ Ctrl-C

Edit configuration (The file is created when starting the server for the first time)

$ nano -w ~/server/linux64/starbound.config

Stopping the server

# su -l starbound

$ tmux attach -t starbound

On the Starbound server command-line.

$ Ctrl-C