Sons of The Forest Dedicated Server Install - AWS, Linux, Docker
Channel: neo Gaming 🎮🔥
Date: 2024-04-07

Sons of The Forest Dedicated Server Install

## Steps

* Create a VM with Ubuntu LTS on AWS
* Login to the VM via shell
* Open ports on your firewall (8766, 27016, 9700)
* Pull the repository: https://github.com/jammsen/docker-sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server
* Create folders named `game` and `steamcmd`
* Update the package manager `sudo apt update`
* Install Docker using the package manager `sudo apt install docker.io`
* Execute the given command to start and run the container
* Stop the container to edit `DedicatedServer.cfg` in either single- or multiplayer folder

## Docker Command

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

See the blog post here: https://contrid.net/server/sons-of-the-forest-dedicated-server-install/