The title “Enshrouded” is bundled with a dedicated server executable. Purchasing and unlocking the game will automatically unlock the dedicated server in the “Tools” section of the Steam library.
In order to see the Tools section you have to enable the "Tools" checkmark in your Steam library, as seen in the screenshot below.
Getting started with the dedicated server setup requires a few simple steps:
- Download the dedicated server via the tools section in the Steam library
- Right-click the program in the Steam library and select [Properties…] in context menu
- Select the “Installed Files” section and click on the [Browse…]-button. This will open the path to the downloaded files in Windows Explorer. Starting the Enshrouded Dedicated Server.exe starts the dedicated server.
- Note: when downloading the server from Steam, Steam will offer a “Launch”-button. We recommend not using the Steam “Launch”-button but run the *.exe instead as described above.
- After having started the dedicated server exe once, it will create a file called “enshrouded_server.json”. This file can be opened with any text editor and is used to configure the dedicated server.
- For now, only Windows is supported. Linux support is planned for later.