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dbledeez 4ccccc6fe2 panel v0.9.2 — public release

Self-hostable game server control panel: Go controller + agent, 26 game
modules, embedded web UI. One-line install via install.sh / install.ps1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-15 00:43:35 -07:00

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ARK: Survival Ascended — panel module

A panel-compatible module for running ARK: Survival Ascended (SA) dedicated servers on any agent with Docker available.

What this is

A thin manifest wrapper around mschnitzer/ark-survival-ascended-server — the most actively-maintained community image for ASA on Linux. That image handles the Proton runtime (ASA has no native Linux server) + SteamCMD + the Windows binary wrapper.

First-run flow

Create the server in the panel (pick ARK: Survival Ascended from the module picker).
Click Update on its card → our generic SteamCMD sidecar downloads ~18 GB into the instance's install volume.
Open Config → under Identity, set the server name and admin password. Save.
Click Start. First map load takes 3–5 minutes — watch the Console tab; when you see Server started on port 7777, it's ready.

RAM

ASA is a hog. Plan for:

12 GB minimum for TheIsland_WP with up to ~30 players
16 GB comfortable
24 GB if you're running a popular community

Changing maps

Set SERVER_MAP in the container env (the mschnitzer image reads it at boot). Valid values include:

TheIsland_WP
TheCenter_WP
ScorchedEarth_WP
Aberration_WP
Extinction_WP
Astraeos_WP
ClubArk_WP

After changing the map, click Stop → Start.

Using your own image

Replace the image: field in module.yaml with your Docker image. Keep the volume mounts (/home/steam/ASA/AppFiles and /home/steam/ASA/AppFiles/ShooterGame/Saved) so SteamCMD's output lands where ASA expects and saves persist across updates.

Known quirks

First start is slow (3–5 min). This is Proton loading + ARK doing its world init. Subsequent starts are ~90 seconds.
Windows file locks — don't run Update while the server is running; SteamCMD will conflict with ARK's open file handles.
EAC is enabled by default. If you want to run mods that EAC blocks, disable via -NoBattlEye in the server args (community image exposes an env for this).

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