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

Updates

image 2024-05-16 (trueosiris/vrising:2.1 or latest)

• Merged with pull65 from Killerherts.
  Logs older than 30 days are cleaned up on server start.
• Merged with pull52 from Diyagi.
  Previous container version can still be grabbed via trueosiris/vrising:2.0
  Main fixes are: clean shutdown & complete log to container log. Kudos!
• Added date to the logfile name, so per server launch, a logfile will be created. For now, they will not be automatically cleaned up.
• If you're experiencing this issue with "[476:488:20240511,134828.926:ERROR http_transport_win.cc:388] HTTP status 403" in the log, pull trueosiris/vrising:display which uses xvfb.
• If you're experiencing this issue with "wine: Assertion failed at address 00007F79E2C9EA7C (thread 0094)" in the log, u might need the latest wine from winehq, therefore grab trueosiris/vrising:winehq

V-Rising 1.0 update

• The game is working perfectly with a new run of the container (from scratch). I'm on it with several buddies and tested for 3 hours.
• When the server is passworded, joining via Steam seems not possible. Use the ingame server list to join.
• Make sure "ListOnSteam": true, and "ListOnEOS": true are set in the ServerHostSettings.json in \persistentdata, so the server is visible in the serverlist
• Launching the server can take up to 10 minutes, even on a fast system, certainly with an existing save. Below is a screenshot of the end of the docker log of a functioning server, at the time we are able to connect to it.

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
LOGDAYS	optional lifetime of logfiles	overrule default of 30 days

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

services:
  vrising:
    image: trueosiris/vrising
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Paris
      - SERVERNAME=vrising-TrueOsiris
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: /your/host/vrising/server
        target: /mnt/vrising/server
        bind:
          create_host_path: true
      - type: bind
        source: /your/host/vrising/persistentdata
        target: /mnt/vrising/persistentdata
        bind:
          create_host_path: true
    ports:
      - '9876:9876/udp'
      - '9877:9877/udp'
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: bridge

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
},

Remarks

• Server config files are in /path/on/host/persistentdata/Settings. Files in /path/on/host/server/ are overwritten on Steam update.
  Priority of settings is

  a. container variables

  b. files in /persistentdata

  c. files in /server. (and these are reset to defaults each new patch)

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

• Description can be changed in /path/on/host/persistentdata/Settings/ServerHostSettings.json. The server will have to be restarted after changes.

• 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"

• Make sure "ListOnSteam": true, and "ListOnEOS": true are set in the ServerHostSettings.json in \persistentdata, so the server is visible in the serverlist.

• 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.
  • 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.

Docker log

The log of a functional server in 1.0 should look like this:

Credits

• All credits go to the awesome designers of V-Rising!