Sons of The Forest Dedicated Server Install – AWS, Linux, Docker

You can play Sons of The Forest on your own, dedicated server!

This is a server setup guide using AWS, Linux – Ubuntu and Docker.

Steps: Sons of The Forest Server Install

• Create a VM with Ubuntu LTS on AWS
  • 8gb memory, 16gb recommended
• Login to the VM via shell to the console
• 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