This guide shows you what is required to get your very own Stationeers dedicated server up and running. Not too much is known about Stationeers right now and i will update this guid as more is known. If you see any errors, please let me know and i will update them here in the guide.

The first step is to retrieve the files for the game, this is done via SteamCMD.

Follow the guide here on how to use STEAMCMD.

Once you have STEAMCMD, run the following command:

steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir C:\SteamCMD\myserver +app_update 600760 validate +exit

Note: You can adjust the +force_install_dir paramter to the directory you want to download the server to.

This will then download the entire game, Once completed, it's time to setup the server configuration.


For windows, you will require the following to be installed:

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015[www.microsoft.com]
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2017[www.visualstudio.com]

Inside the content you just downloaded, there will be several files, proceed to edit the following file: default.ini

Go ahead and edit this file in a text editor such as notepad.

It should look similar to this:

[SERVER]
SERVERNAME=My Stationeers Server
GAMEPORT=27500
UPDATERPORT=27015
PASSWORD=
MAPNAME=Moon
DESCRIPTION=Stationeers
MAXPLAYER=10
[RCON]
RCONPASSWORD=stationeers

In this file you will be able to edit the settings such as the server name.

e.g. The following line:

SERVERNAME=Stationeers

Will set your server to be called "My Stationeers Server"

The best method for a self-hosted solution is to create a simple .batch file,

Inside your folder where rocketstation_DedicatedServer.exe is located, create a batch file with the following content:

start rocketstation_DedicatedServer.exe -autostart -nographics -batchmode

This will then start the server up with the following map: Moon (That is the default map and the map defined in the configuration example above and 10 maxplayers as dicated in the default configuration file above..

Please note some port-forwarding may be required, by default the server will use game port 27500 and query port 27015, you should unblock these ports in your firewall\router.

If setting up your own server is too much work for you, then please consider renting a server from Citadel Servers[www.citadelservers.co] - They setup everything for you