7 Days to Die

Create a user for running 7 Days to Die

# useradd -m -s /bin/bash sevendtd

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

# su -l sevendtd

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 Steam.

$ ./steamcmd.sh

$ Ctrl-c

Obtain and run the server binary

$ mkdir ~/server

$ cd ~/SteamCMD

File: ~/SteamCMD/update_sevendtd.sh

./steamcmd.sh +login anonymous +force_install_dir ~/server +app_update 294420 +exit

$ chmod +x update_sevendtd.sh

$ ./update_sevendtd.sh

Run the server

$ tmux new -s sevendtd

$ cd ~/server

$ 7DaysToDieServer.x86_64 -logfile 7DaysToDieServer_Data/output_log.txt -quit -batchmode -nographics -dedicated -configfile=serverconfig.xml

$ Ctrl-c

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

File: ~/serverconfig.xml

{
  [...]
  TODO
  [...]
}

Stopping the server

# su -l sevendtd

$ tmux attach -t sevendtd

On the 7 Days to Die server command-line.

$ Ctrl-c