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Astro Colony Dedicated Server Install (SteamCMD)

SteamCMD appid 2934900

sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash steam
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y steamcmd lib32gcc-s1
sudo -u steam -i \
  /usr/games/steamcmd +force_install_dir /opt/gameserver \
  +login anonymous +app_update 2934900 validate +quit

https://eggs.pterodactyl.io/egg/games-astro-colony

Astro Colony Config file paths

• AstroColony/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/ServerSettings.ini
• AstroColony/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/ServerSettings.ini

Server notes

The dedicated server forks into two appids by platform: Windows uses 2662210 (and additionally pulls component appid 1007 into AstroColony/Binaries/Win64) while Linux uses 2934900; AMP deliberately installs the Linux appid into a directory named after the Windows appid (App.BaseDirectory=./astro-colony/2662210/), so both platforms share one path layout and looking up directories by appid leads to a wrong conclusion. A native Linux binary exists, so this title does not need Wine (the third-party Wine egg is an optional grade-C route). For ports, upstream registers only the 27015/UDP query port; the game port is registered nowhere and offers no way to change it, so multiple instances per host are not supported upstream. The config path forks by platform (two ServerSettings.ini files under WindowsServer and LinuxServer, both using the section /Script/ACFeature.EHServerSubsystem), and editing the wrong directory has no effect. The server name travels only on the command line as -SteamServerName: AMP declares ServerName as an ini key but never maps it, so a ServerName= line never appears in the ini; a name longer than 45 characters disables the server password (AMP verbatim), while the official egg and the third-party egg simply cap it at 30. The Seed cap is the int32 value 2147483647 (the egg says digits_between:1,10), yet a production template ships the 17-digit 97234982389468723, which both panels would reject; this site does not truncate for you, because truncating means a different world. Zero is a legal, distinct setting for both AutosaveInterval (disable autosaving) and AutosavesCount (retain none). Booleans are written True/False here (AMP and the real file agree), while the official egg's environment defaults are 1/0 and are written straight into the same ini; both encodings are registered side by side and not adjudicated. Of the 6 boolean switches, Sandbox and UnlimitedResourceStack are single-source keys (registered by AMP only), while SavegameName appears only in the real file. The admin surface is standard input with no remote-management port, and all three of AMP's player-event regexes are ^$ with MonitorChildProcessName empty, so the panel's online-player count is not trustworthy for this title. Shutdown has three readings: AMP ExitMethod=OS_CLOSE (under which ExitString=stop can never be sent), the official egg's ^C, and the third-party Wine egg's ^^C. There are two ready signals and they agree: AMP's regex and the egg's literal both anchor on "server create success".