Unturned: Installing Workshop Content on Your Server

The Steam Workshop allows you to customize your server even more. Below, we explain how to add more content from the Steam Workshop to your server.

There are various sources where you can download mods, maps, models, etc. The most popular is the Steam Workshop. There you will find many resources that you can install on your server. First, you need to find the desired Workshop items. You can find the Steam Workshop for Unturned here: Unturned - Steam Workshop

Once you have decided, you need to copy the ID of the Workshop item and then add it in the interface. Depending on whether you browse the Steam Workshop via your browser or the Steam client, you can copy the ID as follows:

• Steam Client

  Right-click on the Workshop page of the item and click "Copy Page URL." Copy the ID from the URL.

• Browser

  In the URL bar, you will find a number sequence after .../?id=. Copy this.

Once you have collected the desired content, it will now be added to the server. The content is specified in the WorkshopDownloadConfig.json config file, which you can find in the Configuration tab (raw text view) of your game server.

Now we add the IDs of the individual Steam Workshop items to 'File_IDs'. The final result might look like this:

{
  "File_IDs": [
  	1567256534,
    1234567890, // placeholder (example)
    0987654321  // placeholder (example)
  
  ],
  "Ignore_Children_File_IDs": [],
  "Query_Cache_Max_Age_Seconds": 600,
  "Max_Query_Retries": 2,
  "Use_Cached_Downloads": true,
  "Should_Monitor_Updates": true,
  "Shutdown_Update_Detected_Timer": 600,
  "Shutdown_Update_Detected_Message": "Workshop file update detected, shutting down in: {0}",
  "Shutdown_Kick_Message": "Shutdown due to Workshop file update."
}

After that, the server must be started. The added content will be automatically downloaded during startup. You can see this in the console. The output should look like this:

1 Workshop item(s) to download...
Downloading Workshop item 1567256534
Workshop item successfully downloaded: 1567256534

The content has now been successfully downloaded, set up, and should be active.