BepInEx Support and Longship support testing thread

[AtroposOrbis]

Could you have a release branch that uses this mod during builds?
https://github.com/AlexMog/Longship/releases/tag/0.0.1

[mbround18]

I'll give it a look see, does it support BepInEx as the loader?

[mbround18]

try mbround18/valheim:development-bepinex which should pull from dockerhub

https://hub.docker.com/layers/138364213/mbround18/valheim/development-bepinex/images/sha256-2e57c0911cbb56fede53e693cc3c1933caea388740911afb742f6e030a307644?context=explore

Someone was trying to hack into my dockerhub but failing ;P

[sbabiy]

For me it fails to load with the following error:
valheim_1 | ==> /home/steam/valheim/logs/valheim_server.err <==
valheim_1 | ERROR: ld.so: object 'libdoorstop_x86.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

It appears to be trying to use the 32bit lib.

[AtroposOrbis]

@mbround18 I'm currently starting up a new testing server where I'll run these development builds <3

I'll be back with results ASAP as I'll be running my oldest world to test the performance. 👍

[mbround18]

@sbabiy let me check to see if I am loading the wrong lib one moment

[sbabiy]

Thanks!

[AtroposOrbis]

Able to have the server running with no issues! Generated a new world and now I'll be running a pre-exisiting. Brb

[mbround18]

Ooo ill give this a try <3 thank you @palp

[mbround18]

Sorry @palp no go on that one :< thats for windows based clients only..

[mbround18]

1:30 am ;-; and I thiiink I have a potential fix

[mbround18]

Started a new thread on this discussion topic for the successful release. Click Here

[palp]

Sorry @palp no go on that one :< thats for windows based clients only..

Well that wasn't a problem for long...
NeighTools/UnityDoorstop.Unix@25c2c21#diff-3540e44ebc24c5d05c65dfd7dee00f7958924c47060d34347eaf538d282ca3eb

[mbround18]

It works Success! Could I get some beans to test the new release image?

mbround18/valheim-odin:development-bepinex

As a test I used ValheimPlus to auto discover 1000 units from my character. It worked like a charm!

All I can say is good luck :P with BepInEx you HAVE to match configs and a few other stuff which causes it to be a bit jenky to get connected.... On the bright note, I hate myself and double quotes now! The issue was, one variable has to be in double quotes or else it has a system fault..

If you run into any issues here, you can run with DEBUG_MODE=1 and it will spit out a very verbose output from my testing...

Awwwwww yeaahhhhh minor note, there currently is an issue with BepInEx where if you try and close it down it wont work. You have to force quite the application or send it a SIGKILL which would cause the world to not save. But in my testing, the way this repo handles signals from docker; it still closes down the server and saves the world correctly :)

[AtroposOrbis]

For testing, if y'all wouldnt mind, have it running for a couple hours or so with a couple of mods of your choice. Then comment on my pull request for this feature with a small blerb and I'll merge it into the main branch to go out with the :latest release :)

Been running for two days now. Longship only. No errors and amazing performance <3

[mbround18]

I've tried the BepInEx dev version on my pre-existing server without any configutration changes, the server looks like its setup and connected but i can no longer see this in the server list. Are there any additional config steps? I don't have valheim plus installed on my client as i wanted to test to see if my normal users could still connect.

You need to have the decompiled binaries as well, my suggestion is to download ValheimPlus and extract everything but the BepInEx files to your valheim directory since you already have BepInEx installed. In order for BepInEx to run you also need doorstop which is the loader library.

[cpbreton]

Those aren't part of the BepInEx development pull?

[mbround18]

They are not, BepInEx cannot be loaded without doorstop and valheims decompiled/unstripped libraries

[sbabiy]

@mbround18 I have been running the server for the past two day without any issues and with excellent performance. Huge thanks to you!!! BTW, I'm running with Valheim Plus and seven other mods

[mbround18]

Hey yall, the branch has been merged in! You can switch to mbround18/valheim:latest and run with BepInEx <3

[ouvoun]

Nice, I'll give that a spin, thanks for the help!

In a perfect world it would be as easy as flipping a env variable on and BepInEx et al could be installed automatically, but until the dust settles with the Valheim modding situation that might not be possible. :)

[mbround18]

Nice, I'll give that a spin, thanks for the help!

In a perfect world it would be as easy as flipping a env variable on and BepInEx et al could be installed automatically, but until the dust settles with the Valheim modding situation that might not be possible. :)

Thats the end goal <3 right now its a nightmare to find the right content to install from a simple web request :P

[qdlmcfresh]

Anyone got newest ValheimPlus[0.8.5] working?

valheim_1  | [ODIN][INFO]  - Server has been started and Daemonized. It should be online shortly!
valheim_1  | [ODIN][INFO]  - Keep an eye out for 'Game server connected' in the log!
valheim_1  | [ODIN][INFO]  - (this indicates its online without any errors.)
valheim_1  | [Valheim][steam]: Herding Graydwarfs...
valheim_1  | ==> /home/steam/valheim/logs/valheim_server.log <==
valheim_1  | [ODIN][INFO]  - BepInEx found! Setting up Environment...
valheim_1  | [ODIN][INFO]  - Success, daemonized
valheim_1  | Found UnityPlayer, hooking into it instead
valheim_1  | Found path: /home/steam/valheim/valheim_server.x86_64
valheim_1  | Mono path[0] = '/home/steam/valheim/valheim_server_Data/Managed'
valheim_1  | Mono config path = '/home/steam/valheim/valheim_server_Data/MonoBleedingEdge/etc'
valheim_1  | Setting config paths; basedir: /home/steam/valheim; config: /home/steam/valheim/valheim_server.x86_64.config
valheim_1  | Managed dir: /home/steam/valheim/valheim_server_Data/Managed
valheim_1  | Fallback handler could not load library /home/steam/valheim/valheim_server_Data/Mono/0|~V/mono/aot-cache/amd64/BepInEx.Preloader.dll.so
valheim_1  | Got image: 0x56027f7e8460 
valheim_1  | 
valheim_1  | ==> /home/steam/valheim/logs/valheim_server.err <==
valheim_1  | 
valheim_1  | Unhandled Exception:
valheim_1  | System.MissingMethodException: void System.IO.File.WriteAllText(string,string)
valheim_1  | [ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.MissingMethodException: void System.IO.File.WriteAllText(string,string)
valheim_1  | 
valheim_1  | ==> /home/steam/valheim/logs/output.log <==
valheim_1  | 
valheim_1  | ==> /home/steam/valheim/logs/auto-update.out <==
valheim_1  | 
valheim_1  | ==> /home/steam/valheim/logs/auto-backup.out <==

[cpbreton]

@ouvoun Odin looks for the following

Here are some good steps to debug

1. Go into your server directory and type ls -l
2. Do you see the doorstop_libs folder? If so, cd doorstop_libs and type ls -l.
3. Is the libdoorstop_x64.so present?
4. Next, cd ../ so that you are in the root of the server directory.
5. Do you see the unstripped_corlib?
6. Do you see the BepInEx directory?

Those are essentially all the checks that Odin makes when looking to see if your system has BepInEx installed.

Do the BepInEx, doorstop_libs, and valheim_server_Data folders as well as run_bepinex.sh all go on the root ( / ) of the server? Or do they go in the /home/steam/valheim folder? Or somewhere else entirely?

[qdlmcfresh]

@ouvoun Odin looks for the following

Here are some good steps to debug

1. Go into your server directory and type ls -l
2. Do you see the doorstop_libs folder? If so, cd doorstop_libs and type ls -l.
3. Is the libdoorstop_x64.so present?
4. Next, cd ../ so that you are in the root of the server directory.
5. Do you see the unstripped_corlib?
6. Do you see the BepInEx directory?

Those are essentially all the checks that Odin makes when looking to see if your system has BepInEx installed.

Do the BepInEx, doorstop_libs, and valheim_server_Data folders as well as run_bepinex.sh all go on the root ( / ) of the server? Or do they go in the /home/steam/valheim folder? Or somewhere else entirely?

/home/steam/valheim this
or you could unpack it on your docker host into the specified server directory e.g. ./tmp/server in the example compose files

[bialad]

I'm running mbround18/valheim:latest on an empty /home/steam/valheim folder to generate a new server, which boots and I can login and play. Then I stop the container, and unzip BepInEx_unix_5.4.5.0.zip over the generated server install. Just as the examples say above, with the files and folders in the correct places. I still get this error when starting up the container again.

Fallback handler could not load library /home/steam/valheim/valheim_server_Data/Mono/`EV�U/mono/aot-cache/amd64/BepInEx.Preloader.dll.so                                                                          │
Got image: 0x5581561a9c70                                                                                                                                                                                         ==> /home/steam/valheim/logs/valheim_server.err <==                                                                                                                                                               
Unhandled Exception:                                                                                                                                                                                              System.MissingMethodException: void System.IO.File.WriteAllText(string,string)                                                                                                                                   
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.MissingMethodException: void System.IO.File.WriteAllText(string,string)

Am I missing a step somewhere?

[mbround18]

@BrianAllred should be good to go :P
https://hub.docker.com/layers/135882245/mbround18/valheim/latest/images/sha256-b080c768b757dd9aeeebf5fc66fed777a817a483e6c7fd74aea7adc73adff302?context=explore

@qdlmcfresh #167 <3

[ouvoun]

@mbround18 Do you have any thoughts on bringing something like this to your container, or would you prefer it to not make exceptions for only one mod?

https://github.com/lloesche/valheim-server-docker/pull/91

[mbround18]

@mbround18 Do you have any thoughts on bringing something like this to your container, or would you prefer it to not make exceptions for only one mod?

@ouvoun

Typically its best to not open yourself up to dependency nightmares like relying on a third party repository. However, I was thinking of enabling the concept of a MODS environment variable where you could pass in a list of zip file urls to install. This would give you control over what mods are installed while not restricting the repository to be dependent on a specific mod.

The caveat for this would be, you could download any mod with a direct url but I would have to design it in such a way that you could specify how you want it to be extracted.

It would be similar to how This minecraft docker image allows you to install mods
https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server/blob/master/README.md

[nightah]

So for clarity, you do NOT need to extract both https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/denikson/BepInExPack_Valheim/ and https://github.com/BepInEx/BepInEx/releases/download/v5.4.5/BepInEx_unix_5.4.5.0.zip.

The former includes what's required from the latter.

Extract the former into your server location and then any plugins that you plan to run also need to be extracted in server/BepInEx/plugins/.

One thing I did notice is that when adding Longship that it would not respect any of the Env Vars for server setup, instead it utilises the configuration generated at: server/BepInEx/config/gg.mog.valheim.longship.cfg

[mbround18]

So for clarity, you do NOT need to extract both https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/denikson/BepInExPack_Valheim/ and https://github.com/BepInEx/BepInEx/releases/download/v5.4.5/BepInEx_unix_5.4.5.0.zip.

The former includes what's required from the latter.

Extract the former into your server location and then any plugins that you plan to run also need to be extracted in server/BepInEx/plugins/.

One thing I did notice is that when adding Longship that it would not respect any of the Env Vars for server setup, instead it utilises the configuration generated at: server/BepInEx/config/gg.mog.valheim.longship.cfg

Longship does its own thing shrug it is designed to be setup from a configuration file. My suggestion is extract ValheimPlus since they are actively maintaining a good zip. then remove the dll if you dont want it.

[Shuro]

Is there some kind of possibility to disable BepInEx, when you don't want it? After updating the server, now it says every time that it loads it, that sigint is unsafe and that DLLs can't be loaded.

valheim_1 | ERROR: ld.so: object 'libdoorstop_x64.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

[ZeArioch]

Can confirm, same behavior here after pulling the latest docker image and restarting an unmodded server.
I'd wager there's an issue somewhere with is_bepinex_installed but I haven't had time to look into it yet.

[CosmicHorrorDev]

I believe that's what #183 was fixing

[mbround18]

Yes, pull the latest image and it should be fixed :)

[ZeArioch]

Tested and confirmed. Much appreciated! 🙏