yoryan/simutrans-server

This repository contains Simutrans headless servers that are ready to run in Docker and are compatible with the version of the game available through Steam. Find auto-built images on Docker Hub. Spin up a game for your fellow transportation nerds with ease!

This image contains a headless Simutrans executable that is compiled as 32-bit, which is preferred by the game. It also contains a wrapper program that makes Simutrans behave better as a service:

• Save data is copied to and from a dedicated /save directory, which can be easily stored inside a Docker volume or bind mount.
• Requests to stop the container are forwarded to Simutrans and handled gracefully with an autosave.
• The game is autosaved on a regular (real-world) time basis, by default every two hours. This is accomplished by periodically killing and restarting Simutrans.

Tags

• steam-standard (executable only; not playable)
• steam-standard-pak64
• steam-standard-pak64.german
• steam-standard-pak128
• steam-standard-pak128.britain
• steam-standard-pak128.german
• steam-standard-pak128.japan
• steam-standard-pak192.comic

Usage

For the first run, you can use --populate to copy an existing save file into the /save volume while bypassing any permissions problems:

docker run -it --rm -v ~/simutrans/save/mygame.sve:/mygame.sve:ro -v simutrans-server:/save yoryan/simutrans-server:steam-standard-pak64 --populate /mygame.sve

For regular operations, just run the container without any arguments:

docker run -v simutrans-server:/save yoryan/simutrans-server:steam-standard-pak64

A suggested Docker Compose service definition is as follows:

simutrans:
  image: yoryan/simutrans-server:steam-standard-pak64
  restart: unless-stopped
  environment:
    RUST_LOG: info
  volumes:
    - ./simuconf.tab:/game/config/simuconf.tab:ro
    - simutrans:/save/
  ports:
    - "13353:13353"

If you choose to bind-mount /save instead of using a volume, make sure the mount is read-writable by the 999:999 user. The image is designed to run as this non-root user.

You can set simuconf.tab options by bind-mounting your own version of this file to /game/config/simuconf.tab. However, please ensure you have set server_save_game_on_quit = 1 in this file; otherwise, the wrapper program will not be able to obtain autosaves from Simutrans.

You can pass command-line options directly to Simutrans by appending them to the container command:

docker run -v simutrans-server:/save yoryan/simutrans-server:steam-standard-pak64 -- -freeplay

For more information about the options accepted by the wrapper program, see:

docker run -it --rm yoryan/simutrans-server:steam-standard --help