Guide to Starting a PixARK Server

How To Start a PixARK Server

Follow these simple steps;

• Make a fresh folder on the desktop called PixARK (or wherever you want)

• In the PixARK folder create 2 folders called steamcmd & server

• Make 2 Bat files in the PixARK folder called update.bat & startserver.bat

• In the update.bat file put this text -> start “” steamcmd/steamcmd.exe +login anonymous +force_install_dir “E:\PixArk\Server” +app_update 824360 validate +quit

• Change the location of your PixARK folder to what yours is.

• In the startserver.bat file put this text ->

start “” /normal “E:\PixArk\Server\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\PixARKServer.exe” CubeWorld_Light?listen?Multihome=192.168.0.100?Port=15000?QueryPort=27019?RCONPort=27020?MaxPlayers=70 -ServerPort=15000 -CubePort=27019 -CULTUREFORCOOKING=en -forcerespawndinos -NoBattlEye -NoHangDetection -nosteamclient -game -server -log -high

• Again change the location of your PixARK folder to what yours is. Also change the Multihome IP address to your internal address.

• Download SteamCMD unzip it and put the SteamCMD exe into the steamcmd folder.

SteamCMD Download

• Now double-click the update.bat file and let it download the required files.

• Next step is to fire up the server so go ahead and double-click on the startserver.bat file.

• Once the server has finished loading go to *PixArk\Server\ShooterGame\Saved\CubeServers\CubeWorld_Light\CubeWorld_Light*

• Open up World.ini with a text editor, and you can leave the server running.

• Make sure that ServerPort is set to 27019

• Now you can open/forward ports UDP=15000 & 27019, TCP = 15000 & 27019

• Now on your Keyboard hit Winlogo + R and type wf.msc into the box and hit enter

• Click on inbound rules

• Make Sure that PixARK shows up twice in there, double click each one and make sure that in Protocol and Ports one is set to UDP and one is TCP

• Stop the server

• Now you need to go to the folder *PixArk\Server\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer*

• Edit your GameUserSettings.ini with a text editor

• Make sure this is in there:[SessionSettings] SessionName=yourservername Port=14999 QueryPort=27019 Multihome=same as what you put in the serverstart.bat file[ServerSettings] RCONEnabled=True RCONPort=27020 RCONServerGameLogBuffer=600.000000

• Restart the server

• Now to see your server in the in-game browser you need to open Steam up and click view/servers/favorites tab.

• Click Add a Server and put in this: 192.168.0.100:27019 (make sure to change 192.168.0.100 to your multihome ip)

• Now start up PixArk and you should now see your server under Favorites.

Note – Use this tool to connect to RCON:

Steam Community RCON Tool

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