docker-tshock

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A simple docker container for running a TShock Terraria server

Installation

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You can install the latest automated build by pulling the image from the docker index.

docker pull kalhartt/tshock:latest

Quick Start

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A bash script is included to help launch and manage tshock servers using this container. Note the script requires expect to be installed, and the running user must have docker permissions. To start a server just do the following:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kalhartt/docker-tshock/master/tshock.sh
chmod +x tshock.sh

# Start the server
./tshock.sh start servername

# Attach the server (ctrl-p ctrl-q to detach)
./tshock.sh attach servername

# stop the server
./tshock.sh stop servername

Where servername is a name of your choice. This will create a directory at $HOME/servername to store your world files, logs, and config files. You can start the server with custom options as listed below:

$ ./tshock.sh
Usage:
    tshock [-g PORT] [-p PORT] [-d BASEDIR] start NAME
    tshock attach NAME
    tshock stop NAME

Options:
    NAME        Name of the docker container
    -d BASEDIR  Directory for mounted volumes (default: $HOME/NAME)
    -p PORT     Port to bind terraria server to (default: 7777)

$ ./tshock -p 1234 -d /abs/path/to/server start myserver

Advanced Usage

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The Terraria server is launched with the arguments -world /opt/tshock/Terraria/Worlds/Default.wld -autocreate 2. These arguments can be overriden by passing any arguments to docker run like so:

docker run -it kalhartt/tshock:latest \
-world /opt/tshock/Terraria/Worlds/MyWorld.wld \
-maxplayers 16

It can be nice to have access to the world files outside of docker to ease backups. This can be accomplished by using dockers volumes and some tshock arguments. In this example, there is a local folder Worlds which we will mount to the container at /opt/tshock/Worlds. This way all world files will be accessible from both locally and inside the docker container.

docker run --name='tshock' -it \
-p 7777:7777 -p 7878:7878 \
-v Worlds:/opt/tshock/Worlds \
kalhartt/tshock:latest \
-world /opt/tshock/Worlds/MyWorld.wld \
-autocreate 2

It is also possible to use a custom config file using the same mechanism. In this example, a local folder config contains the config.json file to be used by the server.

docker run --name='tshock' -it \
-p 7777:7777 -p 7878:7878 \
-v config:/opt/tshock/config \
kalhartt/tshock:latest \
-world /opt/tshock/Worlds/Default.wld \
-autocreate 2 \
-config /opt/tshock/config/config.json