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Dead Matter Dedicated Server Tutorial
By ThyMystifiedSky
Quick in depth guide on how to setup a Dead Matter Server through steam.

Greetings yall might know me for the server I run "MystifiedSky's US East" I am a dead matter partner and I am well known for posting the original guides for hosting servers on the game.

P.S I am partnered for my twitch - twitch.tv/thymystifiedsky

Video Guide: Guide

Ports needed to be portforwarded are 27016, 7777, and 7778
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Step 1: Download DM Dedicated Server
Go to steam at the top left under the library tab go to where it says games with a drop down bar and click tools. Then search Dead Matter Dedicated Server and download it.
Step 2: Locate Server files Directory
Right click the dead matter dedicated server in steam, then hover over managed, and then click browse local files.
Step 3: Locate Config Files
After that open deadmatter/Saved/Config/WindowsServer
Step 4: Config Setup
Proceed to then open Engine.ini and at the bottom of the config (you may have to make a new line with enter) add the following:

[ url ] (with no spaces)
7777

After that save and close out of Engine.ini you wont be using it anymore
Step 5: Config Setup Part 2
Open up Game.ini and add the following configs and change what you like the order is not important as long as its under the right script:

[/script/engine.gamesession]
MaxPlayers=36

[/script/deadmatter.survivalbasegamestate]
+Admins=Insert Your Steam64ID
+SuperAdmins=Insert Your Steam64ID
ServerName=Insert Your Server Name
+ServerTags="Roleplay:PvP"
MOTD=Insert Your Message of the day
MaxPlayerClaims=3
Seed=0
bFirstPersonOnly=false
bVACSecure=true
bIsHardcore=false
MaxZombieCount=2048
MaxAnimalCount=100
MaxBanditCount=256
PVP=true
FallDamageMultiplier=1.0

[/script/deadmatter.survivalbasegamemode]
WhitelistActive=false
+Whitelist=Insert Your Steam64ID

[/script/deadmatter.flockspawner]
AnimalSpawnMultiplier=1.0

[/script/deadmatter.globalaispawner]
ZombieSpawnMultiplier=1.0

[/script/deadmatter.agenda]
Timescale=5.5

[/script/deadmatter.zombiepawn]
AttackMultiplier=1.0

Then save and exit the config you are done with that config.
Step 6: Start.bat Configuration
Go back to the original directory you were in if you can't find it then repeat step 2. After you are in the directory right click the background and hover over new, then click text document. Without doing anything else press Ctrl + A and rename it to start.bat and press enter. Next you will want to right click and hit edit. You then want to paste in the following unless you know what you are doing. (this is just a public bit I give not what I actually use it works though):

@echo off
cls
:start
echo Starting server...
start /wait deadmatterServer.exe -log
echo Restarting server...
timeout /t 3
echo.
goto start

After that you are all set and ready to run your server (run the start.bat we created) if I missed anything or you have questions feel free to contact me on discord MystifiedSky#0001 or reference my video!

10 Comments
ThyMystifiedSky  [author] 9 Sep, 2020 @ 10:50am 
For my server currently direct connect is broken in the game I recommend finding my server and favoriting it
ThyMystifiedSky  [author] 31 Aug, 2020 @ 3:37pm 
No one is banned on my server
An1m0ssity 31 Aug, 2020 @ 3:14pm 
Yo, did I get banned from your server?
ThatOneGuy 29 Aug, 2020 @ 4:19pm 
@Tantaross to prevent the reset of your configs change the configs to read only. This is done by right clicking->Properties->tick the box that says read only towards the bottom then click apply.
you will need to undo this for any changes though
ThyMystifiedSky  [author] 29 Aug, 2020 @ 10:59am 
There are a few config changes in this latest update so I have to update some of the config options use the new README file that comes with the server files now till I update this
Mortimer 29 Aug, 2020 @ 9:47am 
I've got everything configured, but every time I launch the server it re-writes the config files back to default. I've also got "Failed to find an existing connection with a matching cookie. restart handshake failed" which is probably because it keeps resetting the whitelist to default. Any ideas?
Camy 27 Aug, 2020 @ 10:40am 
ok thanks for replying m8.
ThyMystifiedSky  [author] 27 Aug, 2020 @ 8:21am 
The ports I provide are the only thing that need portforwarded on the dedicated machine for the server only not the game.
Camy 27 Aug, 2020 @ 7:32am 
do we need to forward ports only for dedicated servers or the game in general as well?
soulman 27 Aug, 2020 @ 2:42am 
Nice Tutorial, thanks for making things clearer.:steamhappy: