Mount and Blade: Warband can run on both Windows and Linux server operatings systems. Mount and blade:Warband hardware requirements are more depended on clock speed of your CPU then on the RAM of the server. M&B:Warband is only program to use a single core of a processor which is why having a high clock speed is needed for the server.
Ports that need to be opened:
- UDP 7240 (default but can be changed based on configuration file)
Step 1: Download the needed Mount and Blade Warband server files: http://download2.taleworlds.com/mb_warband_dedicated_1158.zip
Step 2: Extract the zip file and move the files to any directory you want to store them (EX: c:\MBWDedicated\)
Step 3: Set a gamemode configuration and server settings Check the Example config tab for an Idea on how to do this
Step 4: Open ports on your firewall for either the default port of 7240 or if you changed it in the config file open that instead. Only UDP needs to be open.
Step 5: Start the server by click sample_gamemode_start.bat
The server files are meant for Windows Operating system but you can run them with a bit of work using ubuntu or other Debian based distros. Interestingly enough statistics show that linux servers run better then windows and require less horsepower under the hood.
We Need to install a couple Preqs first:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install screen sudo apt-get install wine1.6 sudo apt-get install winetricks sudo apt-get install unzip
Step 2: Download the server files: http://www.taleworlds.com/main.aspx?dir=download.aspx?type=2
wget http://download2.taleworlds.com/mb_warband_dedicated_1158.zip
Step 3: Extract the file to a directory that you want (EX: /MBWDedicated/)
unzip mb_warband_dedicated_1158.zip
Step 4: Navigate to inside the folder
Step 5: All install operations are now complete. Use the configuration tab to setup a dedicated gamemode type that you want.
Step 6: Start screen and the gamemode type that you want
screen wineconsole --backend=curses mb_warband_dedicated.exe -r Sample_gamemode.txt
The server is now running inside the screen session that you created. To exit the session using the keyboard code: control+a+d
To see what screen sessions are running use: screen -ls
To return to the screen session use screen -r “session-name”
Thats it!
Choose what kind of server you want to runBattle, Capture the Flag, Conquest, Seige, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Duel and Commander Battle
Open the .txt file of the game mode of your choosing
Set the Admin password, Server name and Welcome message first:
set_pass_admin ADMINSUPERPASSWORD
set_server_name BESTSERVERNAME
set_welcome_message WELCOME MESSAGE
Set Max Players you want on your server (200 max for game)
set_max_players 15 15
Save the file and you are good to go! Read the readme.txt file for more commands that you can use.
Coming Soon
Leave a Reply