How to Create a Sons of The Forest Server Guide

Creating a Sons of The Forest game server is an easy process that can be done from either a dedicated server or your home computer. Alternatively, you can choose a (coming soon) that will fit your needs.

Option #1: Renting a Sons of The Forest server (see example control panel below!)

Server Requirements

Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 Server 2016, Server 2019 & 64-Bit

Dual Core processor (requires up to 2 full cores)

Up to 8GB memory (minimum 4GB)

Step 1: Fetching Game Server files

1. Create a folder where you wish to store your Sons of The Forest game server hosting files
2. Inside of the folder, place the newly downloading SteamCMD .exe file
3. Create a batch file named SonsofTheForest.bat
4. Place the following code in this batch file:

@echo off

start "" C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\SonsofTheForest\steamcmd\steamcmd .exe +login anonymous anonymous +force_install_dir C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\SonsofTheForest +app_update 2465200 +quit

1. Right-click SonsofTheForest.bat and Run as Administrator
2. Your game server files should be completely downloaded by now

Step 2: Setting up the Dedicated Server

1. Create a batch file named SonsofTheForest.bat in your newly created Sons of The Forest server folder from step 1
2. Place the following code in the batch file:

@echo off

start SonsOfTheForestDS.exe