How to install and host a No One Survived server

Developer Cat Play Studio released dedicated server software for the early access game No One Survived early on to enable in­di­vidu­al mul­ti­play­er ad­ven­tures. Equipped with the ap­pro­pri­ate hosting setup, in­stall­a­tion and setup via SteamCMD is quickly done.

Re­quire­ments for a No One Survived server

Similar to a Dayz server or a Sons of the Forest server, you can basically host a No One Survived server on your own PC. However, hosting with a pro­fes­sion­al provider is still re­com­men­ded for several reasons. For one, the self-hosted server will only run when your device is turned on. With a hosting provider, you can make the game world available around the clock. Secondly, data centres have high-per­form­ance broadband con­nec­tions that are clearly superior to ordinary household con­nec­tions.

The specific re­quire­ments of the No One Survived server depend on the specific usage scenario. The number of players who are active on the server at the same time is par­tic­u­larly crucial. The following are the minimum re­quire­ments for a simple server with up to four users:

• Computing power (CPU): min 3 GHz
• Memory (RAM): min 4 GB
• Hard drive space: min 10 GB

The re­quire­ments of the un­der­ly­ing server operating system also need to be con­sidered. The No One Survived server software is currently designed for Windows Server. If you’re using Windows Server 2022, for example, the following re­quire­ments are:

Host a No One Survived server with IONOS

IONOS is all that you need in a reliable hosting partner. When looking for a suitable hardware option for your No One Survived server, you can choose from three different models including different packages:

• Cloud server: A cloud server from IONOS is the perfect way to get into hosting gaming servers. You rent vir­tu­al­ised hardware resources that can be scaled flexibly and billed by the minute.
• VPS (vServer): IONOS vServers are also based on vir­tu­al­ised hardware (based on shared host systems). The leased service is available at a fixed monthly price.
• Dedicated server: Dedicated en­ter­prise hardware with state-of-the-art pro­cessors and per-minute billing is what you get when you rent a dedicated server from IONOS. If you choose the ‘Con­fig­ur­able Hardware’ option, you can adjust the per­form­ance at any time.

3 No One Survived server scenarios and suitable IONOS package

Below you will find three different scenarios for using a No One Survived server, to which we have assigned a suitable IONOS package. The examples serve as a guide for you when choosing your server.

Step-by-step in­struc­tions for your No One Survived server

We have sum­mar­ised the most important steps for IONOS (Cloud Server, vServer, Dedicated Server) customers to set up their own No One Survived server. The operating system used here is Windows Server 2022.

Step 1: Connect to the hosting server

In order to install No One Survived’s dedicated server software on the rented hardware, an active remote desktop con­nec­tion to the server is required. This is easily to achieve thanks to setup help in the IONOS customer account:

1. Log in to your IONOS customer account.
2. Click on ‘Server & Cloud’.
3. Select your rented IONOS server.
4. Click on your server and scroll to the login data. Download the setup file for the ‘Remote Desktop con­nec­tion’ by pressing the download button.

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Execute the down­loaded .rdp file by double-clicking and confirm the con­nec­tion setup in the first dialog via ‘Connect’. Then log in to the server with your in­di­vidu­al login data (‘user’ and ‘initial password’).

Step 2: Install SteamCMD

The most con­veni­ent way to obtain the server ap­plic­a­tion for hosting your own No One Survived server is via SteamCMD. The command line client offers you the pos­sib­il­ity to connect to the Steam servers to download the ap­pro­pri­ate files.

Download the handy tool by clicking on the following download link. Then unzip the ZIP file and save the steamcmd.exe in a new directory named C:\SteamCMD. Once you run the in­stall­a­tion file, SteamCMD will auto­mat­ic­ally be installed in this directory and run directly.

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Step 3: Download and install the No One Survived server

Using the command line tool, you can now connect to the public Steam servers to download the No One Survived server files. In the first step, create a suitable in­stall­a­tion directory for the server files such as C:\no-one-survived-server:

force_install_dir C:\no-one-survived-server

The next step is to log in an­onym­ously to the public Steam servers:

login anonymous

After logging in, you can download and install the No One Survived dedicated server ap­plic­a­tion by entering the app ID 2329680:

app_update 2329680 validate

After the in­stall­a­tion has been suc­cess­fully completed, use the command quit to log off from the servers and SteamCMD.

Step 4: Install Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime

In order to run the ap­plic­a­tion, you must also install a current version of the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime. You can find the ap­pro­pri­ate in­stall­a­tion files in the Microsoft Help Center. Be sure to choose the version that cor­res­ponds to the ar­chi­tec­ture of your rented server hardware. For example, for a 64-bit system, choose the download file vc_redist.x64.exe.

Restart your server after in­stalling the runtime en­vir­on­ment.

Step 5: Open server ports

To enable client con­nec­tions to your server and make it available later via the server listing, you must now enable the ap­pro­pri­ate TCP/UDP ports in the server’s firewall settings. The re­com­men­ded ports for the No One Survived server are TCP/UDP 7777 (game port) and TCP/UDP 27015 (query port). For IONOS servers, you can initiate the release directly in the customer account:

1. Go to the ‘Servers & Cloud’ section again.
2. Select the server that the No One Survived server software is installed on.
3. In the left side menu, open the ‘Network’ section and then select the ‘Firewall Policies’ menu item.
4. Create the rules for TCP/UDP ports 7777 and 27015 under ‘Inbound’. If you select ‘TCP/UDP’ directly in the ‘Protocol’ field, you only need to create one rule for each of them.

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Step 5: Configure the No One Survived server

In the con­fig­ur­a­tion file Game.ini you can define the basic settings for your own No One Survived server. You can find the file under the path .\WRSH\Saved\Config\WindowsServer\Game.ini in the pre­vi­ously created server directory.

The con­fig­ur­a­tion file is divided into the following two cat­egor­ies:

• GameSettings: Here you can specify the basic game prop­er­ties. Are the zombie attacks activated and if so, on which day should these enemies start to appear on the screen? How many days should a game year have and is PvP allowed?
• ServerSetting: Under this category you define all important server prop­er­ties like the name and the optional password or the maximum number of players.

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Step 6: Start the server

Once you have opened the ports and saved the desired settings, you can finally start your No One Survived server. All you have to do for this is run NoOneSurvivedServerStart.exe. The server ap­plic­a­tion will then start auto­mat­ic­ally in a new CMD window. The ini­tial­isa­tion of the game world will take some time. If ServerCreate is displayed, then it means the server start was suc­cess­ful.

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Step 7: Connect to the newly created No One Survived server

Once the server is up and running, you can share your IP address or server name (and password, if set up) with your fellow players. Using this in­form­a­tion, you and others can now search for your No One Survived server and connect to the game world as follows:

1. Start the No One Survived game in the usual way.
2. Click on the ‘Mul­ti­play­er’ menu item.
3. Press ‘Private server’ and restart the game.
4. Navigate to the item ‘Private server’ via ‘Mul­ti­play­er’ one more time and you will get to the menu with the same name.
5. Use the search function to look for your server. Use the full name you have defined in the Game.ini, because there is no feature to search for part of the name.
6. Click on the ap­pro­pri­ate search result and then press ‘Join in’.

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After suc­cess­fully logging in to the server, you can finally start the dedicated mul­ti­play­er adventure on your newly created No One Survived server!

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