Dedicated Server Windows not working Since last hotfix

[Mr-Chris]

I have had a fairly stable Win dedicated server running for "360" Mars days. After the last patch none of the clients can connect. No changed have been made on the firewall or on the server. It was shut down and updates were completed after the patch was released. I am able to connect on the local lan but remote/WAN connections no longer work. The game server can be seen in the list when people are playing stationeers.
Verified IP address, port forwarding, win firewall, tried to update the game numerous times since (game up to date). Any recommendations? Im stuck and the players are not happy!

[God, owner of the Universe]

The Steam forums aren't the best place to find help for this, try here:


dedicated-server: https://discord.com/channels/276525882049429515/392080751648178188
game-help: https://discord.com/channels/276525882049429515/392081193614704640
bug-discussion: https://discord.com/channels/276525882049429515/390346499902537729

[Rocket]

How are you hosting it? Is it at home or on a server provider?

If it is at home, ISPs will often make changes to how internet is provisioned that make it complex to run dedicated servers. This can include detecting ports being forwarded and used that look like torrents, and blocking them.

RocketNet (the multiplayer synchronization method we developed) is binary data packed using L4Z compression and sent regularly at 20MS. This could fall afoul of some ISPs torrent detection.

If it was working and now is not, it might be worth checking with your ISP that they haven’t made any changes that would require you to alter your port forwarding setup.

[DerKlingKlong [DDE]]

Maybe that will help. I searched the net for diverse setups and tried a lot not working batchdatas default.ini and settings.xml. In the end i got one way that work for me. Mostly i can always find a lot of help in the net for serversetups exept in this case. So thats the reason i try to help once to ;)
So they changed the way the settings.ini and default was create on first start of the server.

1. Step download and install the server via steamcmd. Create a batchfile that looks like this and put it to the root of your steamcmd to run. I've insert the complete adress of the steamcmd.exe so it don't matter where i put the file (desktop).
I edit it like this:

InstallAndUpdateStationeersServer.bat

:start
F:\SteamCMD\steamcmd.exe +login anonymous +force_install_dir E:\Stationeersserver +app_update 600760 +validate +quit


After that i created a batchfile for running the server once the first time. Put it to the rootfolde of the server where you also can find the rocketstation_DedicatedServer.exe


CreateStationeersServer.bat

start rocketstation_DedicatedServer.exe -LOAD Moon1 Moon -SETTINGSPATH "E:\stationeersserver\Server\User1" -settings StartLocalHost true ServerVisible true GamePort 27016 UpdatePort 27015 AutoSave true SaveInterval 300

Running this will also create a new folder "Server" in the root of the Server. Inside the folder should now be the editable File User1. Close the server via Ctrl+c or end the task via taskmanager aftrer that. in the User1 i've made the changes for the settings like this and let the rest how it was created:

<ServerName>KlingKlongsStationeers</ServerName>
<StartLocalHost>true</StartLocalHost>
<ServerVisible>true</ServerVisible>
<ServerPassword>12345</Serverpassword>
<AdminPassword>123456xxx</Adminpassword>
<ServerAuthSecret />
<ServerMaxPlayers>10</ServerMaxPlayers>
<UpdatePort>27015</UpdatePort>
<GamePort>27016</GamePort>


after that i created an other batchfile for then serverstart because running the createbatch again will overwrite the User1 file whit the default settings. It looks like this:

StationeersserverStart.bat

start rocketstation_DedicatedServer.exe -LOAD Moon1 Moon -SETTINGSPATH "E:\stationeersserver\Server\User1"


I hope this will may help someone ;) i've found everything here that worked for me and thank all helpfull people out there a lot.
Greetings your KlingKlong

https://stationeers-wiki.com/Dedicated_Server_Guide