Don’t Starve Together is a survival video game, the sequel to Don’t Starve, and features the requested multiplayer mechanics. The game follows a scientist named Wilson who finds himself in a dark, dreary world and must survive as long as possible.
This is a quick deployment and ready-to-run image.
Simple and rapid installation. Easy to maintain.
How to create and connect to Don’t Starve Together on Ubuntu
- To start the server, you just need to start the VM through Azure Portal. НBut for the server operation, you should generate and insert a cluster_token into a file on the server. To do this, start the game Don’t Starve Together.
- Open the console using the “~” button in the game, and enter the following command: TheNet:GenerateClusterToken().
- Click the Data button to open the folder with the generated cluster_token.txt file. The contents of this file must be moved to the VM.
- To connect, you need PuTTy application to connect via ssh. You can download it at the following link – Download.
- Run Putty, enter the VM address in the “Host” field, and click “Open” to connect.
- In the opened console it is necessary to enter a username and password that were specified while creating the virtual machine.
- Run the following commands, to create and fill cluster_token.txt:
> sudo su
> systemctl stop dst (to stop the server)
> cd /home/steamuser/.klei/DoNotStarveTogether/Cluster_1
> nano cluster_token.txt
> Transfer the contents of the file generated in the step 3
> Press Ctrl + X on the keyboard to exit the file. Then, you will be asked to save the changes to the file – press Y on the keyboard to confirm, and Enter to overwrite to the same file.
> systemctl start dst (to run the server)
- Run the following commands, to open the game console:
> sudo su (If you haven’t run this command before)
> su steamuser
> screen -r
To exit the console correctly, use the Ctrl + A key combination, then releasing only the A button, press D on the keyboard.
- Start the game “Don’t Starve Together” to connect to the server.
- Open the console using the “~” button on your keyboard, and enter the following command with quotes to connect – c_connect (“% vm_ip%”)
Server update
If you were unable to connect to the the server, you should update the server. To do this, connect to the VM through PuTTY and do the following:
- First of all, you must stop the server, you can do this using the following commands:
> sudo su (If you haven’t run this command before)
> systemctl stop dst
- Enter the following commands in sequence:
>/home/steamuser/steamcmd
> login anonymous
> force_install_dir /home/steamuser/dontstarve
> app_update 343050 validate
> exit
> cd /home/steamuser
> chown -R steamuser:steamuser dontstarve
> systemctl start dst
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