Run a Sven Co-op dedicated server in Docker!

Created by: skylord123 https://github.com/skylord123
Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/skylord123/svencoop-server
GitHub: https://www.github.com/skylord123/docker-svencoop-server

I couldn't get any of the other containers working so I decided to make my own.
If you have never heard of Sven Co-op I highly recommend you check it out. It's an awesome game and it's now free on Steam.

Running the container is super easy. Just run this command:

docker run --name svencoop-server -d \
-p 27015:27015 -p 27015:27015/udp \
--env 'GAME_PORT=27015' \
--env 'GAME_PARAMS=+maxplayers 12 +map osprey +log on -num_edicts 8192' \
--env 'VALIDATE=true'
--env 'UID=99' \
--env 'GID=100' \
--volume /mnt/user/appdata/steamcmd:/serverdata/steamcmd \
--volume /mnt/user/appdata/svencoop:/serverdata/serverfiles \
skylord123/svencoop-server:latest

This command will store steamcmd and serverfiles folders inside /mnt/user/appdata so if you want them stored elsewhere on the host make sure you change this (this was developed on Unraid which uses these paths).

If you run multiple containers make sure to share the steamcmd folder between them but have unique serverfiles folders.

After running the command steamcmd will start downloading the Sven Co-op dedicated server. Once that is finished it will launch the server and you should see the console output in your log.

• GAME_PORT - Game port for the server. Make sure this matches the port that users will use to connect or you may have issues (see below for more details)
• GAME_PARAMS - Enter your arguments for svends_run (see above for example).
• VALIDATE - Set the Variable to true if you want to validate the installation on container start otherwise leave it blank or set it to false.
• USERNAME and PASSWORD - Steam user/pass for downloading (uses anonymous if not defined which works with Sven co-op so this is not necessary)

Docker can automatically restart containers when they crash by simply adding this to the docker run command:

--restart=unless-stopped

Make sure that GAME_PORT matches the same port that clients will be connecting from otherwise you will get strange issues (even though it works).

Example: If you map GAME_PORT to 27015 (default) and then map it to 27016 on the host it will cause issues when clients try to add the server to their favorites (it will be added with whatever port the server is configured with in GAME_PORT even though it's really on another port).

If you see an error that looks like this then you will need to change your container appdata path:

_stat on file /serverdata/serverfiles/svencoop/liblist.gam which appeared to exist failed!!!

For some reason Unraid 6.8 caused this error to start happening. You can fix this by specifying the path to the appdata folder on the disk instead of the share. So you would change /mnt/user/appdata/svencoop to /mnt/cache/appdata/svencoop for example. If someone figures out more about why this is happening open an issue to let me know.

Issues and feature requests can be created from the issues tab on github.

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