How to automate your dedicated server mod updates

[szalkerous]

Posting this quick note for the server admins out there.

I got sick of having to manually update mods off my desktop to the server, so I threw together this quick and dirty method of updating them (similar to how Ark does it, but we're doing it externally). Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for you messing up anything. If you're not savvy with managing servers with batch/scripting find someone who is.

You will need SteamCMD.

I assume you've already set the mods up once by hand. You could extend this batch to do it for you. I will probably do that at some point.

My Conan Exiles server is installed to D:\ConanExilesServer. I have created a copy of SteamCMD at D:\ConanExilesServer\SteamCMD. Your paths are likely different. Adjust as necessary.

Batch file ("UpdateMods.bat"):

@echo off
@echo Downloading/updating mods...
D:\ConanExilesServer\SteamCMD\Win64\steamcmd.exe +runscript D:\ConanExilesServer\modscript.txt
@echo Copying new or updated mods...
for /r D:\ConanExilesServer\SteamCMD\Win64\steamapps\workshop\content\440900 %%f in (*.pak) do @xcopy %%f D:\ConanExilesServer\ConanSandbox\Mods /D /Y
@Echo Done!
timeout /t 5

My mod list is specific to what I've installed. Add/remove whatever mod IDs relate to the mod PAKs you have defined in your MODS\modlist.txt file.

SteamCMD script ("modscript.txt"):

logon anonymous
workshop_download_item 440900 1377172507
workshop_download_item 440900 1121057177
workshop_download_item 440900 1185321962
workshop_download_item 440900 1369743238
workshop_download_item 440900 1211904989
workshop_download_item 440900 864199675
quit

Profit and stop manually copying your mods from another PC!

Feel free to suggest any edits/fixes/better ways of doing things below. This took me all of 3 minutes to put together, but I assume others would probably want to benefit from the legwork.

[Severant]

This is awesome, thank you for posting this!