kriansa/cs-16 repository overview

⁠CS 1.6 Dedicated Server Base Image

This is a HLDS setup I made for CS with custom addons and an easy ramp-up. It also fixes several installation issues most people have when trying to create a dedicated CS server.

⁠Why use this image

When doing a clean HLDS installation⁠, as suggested on Steam manual, a few issues may arise.

This Docker image fix all these errors below so you don't have to worry:

1. Installation just doesn't work. Sometimes you would have to run app_update 90 several times and it wouldn't install all needed files. This is a hard one to solve, and I did it with help of this workaround⁠. What it does is basically add 3 manifest files on hlds/steamapps folder and proceeds the installation.
2. First time you run HLDS, it crashes at the first time. This is some other bug caused by a missing steam_appid.txt file on hlds folder.
3. Warning messages of missing $HOME/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so files. The fix is quite easy: we just need to link these files onto the expected path.
4. Warning messages of missing custom.hpk file. This can get annoying and make us think that there's something wrong. Don't worry, this is just a file used to store custom sprays from people who connect to the server. The fix for that is creating a blank cstrike/custom.hpk file when we start the server for the first time.

⁠Using this image

FROM kriansa/cs-16

# Runtime settings
ENV RCON_PASSWORD=""
ENV SV_PASSWORD=""
ENV MAXPLAYERS="32"
ENV MAPNAME="de_dust2"

# Send our custom server.cfg to server and set the right permissions to it
USER root
ADD my-custom-server.cfg cstrike/server.cfg
RUN chown steam:steam cstrike/server.cfg
USER steam