A question regarding dedicated servers

[ShadyPK]

me and some friends been planning to make a server to host 6+ players, and seeing how its impossible (to our knowledge) to do it with a normal server. We have hosted a dedicated before but we don't know how to add mods to said dedicated server. So the question is how do we have 6+ players in a regular and/or how can we add mods to a dedicated server. Sorry if this has been answered 100 times before.

 

[DarkXero]

39 minutes ago, ShadyPK said:

how do we have 6+ players in a regular

UpMaxServerSize.zip

Use this mod.

39 minutes ago, ShadyPK said:

how can we add mods to a dedicated server

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=591543858

Use this guide.

[ShadyPK]

Thanks Pal-o

Where would my friend put the mod again? 

[DarkXero]

5 minutes ago, ShadyPK said:

Where would my friend put the mod again?

Steam/SteamApps/common/Don't Starve Together/mods

After unzipping it, remember to check you don't have a folder inside a folder.

You don't want UpMaxServerSize/UpMaxServerSize/modmain.lua, you want to have just one UpMaxServerSize.

[Arlesienne]

You can also increase the player slots manually through the LUA. You just have to find the line MAX_SERVER_SIZE in tuning.lua (D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Don't Starve Together\data\scripts) and swap 6 with the number of your choice. 16 works fine for me.

[DarkXero]

17 minutes ago, Arlesienne said:

You can also increase the player slots manually through the LUA. You just have to find the line MAX_SERVER_SIZE in tuning.lua

Yup, that's what the mod does. It's a single line.

GLOBAL.TUNING.MAX_SERVER_SIZE = 42

[CarlZalph]

30 minutes ago, Arlesienne said:

You can also increase the player slots manually through the LUA. You just have to find the line MAX_SERVER_SIZE in tuning.lua (D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Don't Starve Together\data\scripts) and swap 6 with the number of your choice. 16 works fine for me.

 

13 minutes ago, DarkXero said:

Yup, that's what the mod does. It's a single line.

GLOBAL.TUNING.MAX_SERVER_SIZE = 42

For those reading this thread in the future then at the current time it is best to use the mod approach because editing core files is not guaranteed to stick through updates.

Which is to say editing the core files can and probably will be reverted with patches.