Dockerized V Rising dedicated server in an Ubuntu 22.04 container with Wine.

Edit ServerHostSettings.json if you want to change the ports, descriptions etc.

Server config files are now in /path/on/host/persistentdata/Settings. Files in /path/on/host/server/ are overwritten on Steam update. Priority of settings is 1) container variables, 2) files in /persistentdata, 3) files in /server.
If there are no files in /path/on/host/persistentdata/Settings on container start, the default files will be copied there from the /server directory.
If using docker-compose, you may need to alter the volume paths on your host. There are a few open issues reported on this.

Environment variables

Variable	Key	Description
TZ	Europe/Brussels	timezone for ntpdate
SERVERNAME	published servername	mandatory setting that overrules the ServerHostSettings.json entry
WORLDNAME	optional worldname	default = world1. No real need to alter this. saves will be in a subdir WORLDNAME
GAMEPORT	optional game udp port	to overrule Port in ServerHostSettings.json config
QUERYPORT	optional query port	to overrule QueryPort in ServerHostSettings.json config

Ports

Exposed Container port	Type	Default
9876	UDP	✔️
9877	UDP	✔️

Volumes

Volume	Container path	Description
steam install path	/mnt/vrising/server	path to hold the dedicated server files
world	/mnt/vrising/persistentdata	path that holds the world files

Docker cli

docker run -d --name='vrising' \
--net='bridge' \
--restart=unless-stopped \
-e TZ="Europe/Paris" \
-e SERVERNAME="trueosiris-V" \
-v '/path/on/host/server':'/mnt/vrising/server':'rw' \
-v '/path/on/host/persistentdata':'/mnt/vrising/persistentdata':'rw' \
-p 9876:9876/udp \
-p 9877:9877/udp \
'trueosiris/vrising'

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.3'
services:
  vrising:
    container_name: vrising
    image: trueosiris/vrising
    network_mode: bridge
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Paris
      - SERVERNAME=vrisingDocker
    volumes:
      - './server:/mnt/vrising/server:rw'
      - './data:/mnt/vrising/persistentdata:rw'
    ports:
      - '9876:9876/udp'
      - '9877:9877/udp'

Links

• V Rising Dedicated Server Instructions
• Dockerhub - Trueosiris/vrising
• Github - trueosiris/vrising

RCON - Optional

To enable RCON edit ServerHostSettings.json and paste following lines after QueryPort. To communicate using RCON protocal use the RCON CLI by gorcon.

"Rcon": {
  "Enabled": true,
  "Password": "docker",
  "Port": 25575
},

Migrating Your Existing Server From Windows

Steps:

1. Create your container and use the "WORLDNAME" environment variable. It should match the name of your server you plan to migrate. This will pass it along as the "SaveName" argument in start.sh

2. Stop the container once it has completed starting up

3. On your Windows server your data should be located in:

   %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Stunlock Studios\VRisingServer\Cloud Save (or Saves)\v1\<guid>

4. Delete the world created by the container in the /mnt/vrising/persistentdata/saves/v1 directory

5. Copy the directory containing all the save files from your Windows server to the volume

6. Delete ServerHostSettings.json from your world directory

7. Rename the world directory to match the {WORLDNAME} from step 1

8. Start the container

Remarks

as requested or logged in issues

• Configuration settings are in /path/on/host/persistentdata/Settings/.
  Serverpatch overwrites config files in /path/on/host/server so avoid touching those json files.

• If you use different internal & external ports, you can only use direct connect. For example -p 12345:6789/udp container port 6789 as defined in ServerHostSettings.json, and exposed as 12345 will make your server invisible, even if "ListOnMasterServer=true"

• If you want to see the server in the server list and want to use 27015-27016/UDP, you'll need to change the ports in the ServerHostSettings.json file to 27015 and 27016. Then expose these ports (below). Of course, forward these udp ports on your firewall from incoming wan to the ports on the internal ip of your dockerhost.
  

  • Start the container & let the server install.
    It ends with something like 0024:fixme:ntdll:EtwEventSetInformation (deadbeef, 2, 000014B2D39FA170, 65) stub
  • Stop the container.
  • Alter the ports in /path/on/host/persistentdata/Settings/ServerHostSettings.json to

     "Port": 27015,
     "QueryPort": 27016,
    

  • On your firewall, port forward incoming wan udp ports 27015 and 27016 to the same udp ports on your dockerhost ip.
  • Restart the container with these ports:

     -p 27015:27015/udp
     -p 27016:27016/udp
    

• If you want to continue from your local game, stop the container, overwrite the persistentdata contents with your local data, and relaunch the server.