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Setup guides, diagnostics and practical decisions for running games on your own VPS.
Satisfactory
Querying Satisfactory dedicated server metrics via HTTPS API: unauthenticated HealthCheck, PasswordLogin Bearer auth, QueryServerState payloads, and UDP game port validation.
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Retaining shared Factorio blueprints during multiplayer server migration: understanding blueprint-storage.dat vs save-bound game blueprints, export workflows, and mod parity.
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Safely prune unused Minecraft Java chunks using MCA Selector: InhabitedTime thresholds, coordinate bounding box protection, and synchronized cleaning of region, poi, and entities folders.
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Diagnosing Counter-Strike 2 Steam Server Browser visibility: resolving A2S_INFO query failures, game and query UDP port separation, iptables firewall, and packet inspection.
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Synchronizing mod startup settings on a Factorio headless server: mod-settings.dat structure, fixing 'Mod settings mismatch' join errors, and reliable profile deployment.
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Troubleshooting missing characters and inventory after transferring a Valheim server: understanding local client .fch files vs server worlds, Steam Cloud sync, and save backups.
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Migrating PaperMC plugins and databases to another server: flushing SQLite WAL logs, archiving the plugins directory, setting file permissions, and startup verification.
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Installing mods on a Linux Satisfactory dedicated server: deploying the ficsit-cli tool, installing SML runtimes, enforcing client-server parity, and checking FactoryGame.log.
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Configuring safehouses and access permissions on a Project Zomboid server: PlayerSafehouse directives in servertest.ini, non-residential claim restrictions, and respawns.
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Importing an existing Bedrock world into a Linux Bedrock Dedicated Server: extracting .mcworld archives, staging LevelDB structures, configuring level-name in server.properties, and permissions.
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Running custom multiplayer scenarios on a Factorio headless server: deploying to scenarios/, compiling a persistent world via --create-save, and launching daemon instances without progress resets.
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Fixing Valheim dedicated server world progress loss after restarts: configuring KillSignal=SIGINT and TimeoutStopSec=120 in systemd, correcting worlds_local directory permissions, and name matching.
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