Valheim server installer

🚧 Project in early development

This project contains all required components to deploy a ready to use Valheim game server. I made my best effort to had a secure configuration, but I can make mistakes. Review the configuration by yourself.

If you use this software for commercial purposes, please consider making a donation or a horde of bloodthirsty vikings led by Odin will fall on you.

Requirements

You need to have installed in your system in order to deploy a fully functional game server:

• Ansible
• make

If you are on Windows you can use wsl in order to install the game server.

Note that at this time, the game server only supports Ubuntu as base operating system. Choose a Ubuntu compatible cloud provider.

Installation

See using packer if you want to create server snapshots in your favourite cloud provider.

First, clone this repository. When done, execute the following command using your own values for the TARGET_USER and TARGET_IP variables that correspond to your server info:

make TARGET_IP=1.2.3.4 TARGET_USER=root ansible-install

You need to provide a TARGET_IP. Without this variable the command will not work.

Now you need to wait the command to finish. Be patient and take a coffee ☕.

Configuration

Now that you have your game server installed, you need to change some settings like the gameserver password, world name etc. All this can be configured by editing the /home/steam/valheim/values.env file, assuming the default configuration. Default values are:

Variable	Default value	Description
GS_NAME	My Valheim gameserver	The name of your game server
GS_PORT	2456	Game server port
GS_WORLD	Dedicated	The world name without spaces
GS_PASSWORD	secret	Game server password. Min. length is 5
GS_PUBLIC	1	For public servers is 1, otherwise 0

When done, the only thing that you need to do for the new values to take effect is restart the systemd service of our game server using:

systemctl restart valheim

Using Packer

If you want to use Packer to create game server snapshots continue reading. Note that the list of currently supported cloud providers is not complete. If you want to add a new cloud provider, create a feature request.

Hetzner

ID: hcloud

To use Hetzner, first you need to generate a new API token with Read and Write permissions. Save this token in a local environment variable called HCLOUD_TOKEN and then execute this command:

make CLOUD=hcloud packer-run

Now, wait until finish.

Vagrant

ID: vagrant

You will need to have Vagrant and VirtualBox to use this installation method. Just execute this command and wait until finish:

make CLOUD=vagrant packer-run

The resulting box will be created in output-vagrant/package.box

License

Check LICENSE for more information.