Welcome to RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack – Linux server installation and Openrct2 Configuration Guide.

This guide will help you how to install Openrct2 on Linux and host a server

Installation Tutorial

Getting Rct2’s data

The first step is to gather the actual information.

Using only Steam and the rct2 installer, it is possible.

Obtaining Openrct2

Openrct2 can be downloaded from Openrct2’s official website – [openrct2.org] ,

downloaded by your package manager (apt, dnf, pacman, flatpak)

or built from source – [github.com] .

In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to install it using pacman, the package manager for my operating system.

sudo pacman -S openrct2

For Debian based distros it should be

sudo apt install openrct2

 

Configuring Openrct2

Launch openrct2 to generate a config file in /home/$USER/.config/OpenRCT2.

When you first start it up, a configuration wizard will appear; if not, you can manually adjust the settings using this file.

Open /home/$USER/.config/OpenRCT2/config.ini with a text editor.

Edit

game_path = ""

line so it matches your game path, for example:

game_path = "/mnt/HDD/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Rollercoaster Tycoon 2"

You can also specify

rct1_path

to where Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 is for additional scenarios, music etc.

Multiplayer

Configuring the server

Open /home/$USER/.config/OpenRCT2 (again)

Now the most important options are under [network].

Here are some of the most important ones:

default_port

Can be any port (1-65535) that is not occupied by any other running service.

default_password

Password for the server.

advertise

Advertise server to master server (view in server browser), probably won’t work without advertise_address or master_server_url.

maxplayers

Max players for the server.

server_name

Server name.

log_chat

Will log chat to /home/$USER/.config/OpenRCT2/chatlogs if set to true.

log_server_actions

Will log server actions to /home/$USER/.config/OpenRCT2/serverlogs if set to true.

Hosting a server

To host first you need a .park file (open openrct2 in singleplayer and save).

To run a server use

openrct2 host {path to .park file}

(“openrct2” can be replaced with openrct2-cli to run headless (without gui))

for example:

openrct2-cli host /home/$USER/.config/OpenRCT2/saves/park.park

Additional arguments (all options must be passed at the end of the command line):

Argument	Variable	Description
–headless	N/A	Runs without gui
–port	number	Changes the server port number
–user-data-path	Path to directory containing config.ini	Changes the server configuration data path
–password	password	Sets the server password
–verbose	N/A	Output additional information to the console
–help	N/A	Prints out help for CLI

 

Joining from LAN

(remember to allow incoming connection to the game server’s port on the server’s firewall)

The command to join is:

openrct2 join {ip address of the server} --port {server port}

For example my server’s ip address is 192.168.0.35 and my port is 43000, the command to join would be:

openrct2 join 192.168.0.35 --port 43000

 

Port Forwarding

Find your router/modem’s ip addres by one of these three commands

ip route

 

route -n

 

netstat -rn

Input the address in a web browser and log in.

(the default login and password may be “admin”, there might be a sticker on the router/modem which tells the password)

(if forwarding doesn’t work for you or your ISP doesn’t let you in the router/modem you could try hamachi instead of port forwarding)

Navigate throught the menus to find “Forwarding” or “Port Forwarding” or anything related

add a new forwarding rule:
{port}-{port}{server ip}{port}-{port}Both

Public Port Range	Target IP Address	Target Port Range	Protocol

make it look something like that.

Example, my server’s ip address is 192.168.0.35 and my port is 43000:
43000-43000192.168.0.3543000-43000Both

Public Port Range	Target IP Address	Target Port Range	Protocol

(your server’s ip can change if server’s ip is dynamic (not static))

Joining from WAN

Get your public ip address and join the game with:

openrct2 join {public ip address} --port {port}

or by adding the server in the server browser.

Setting permissions

By default you will be given the role “Spectator” when you join, to change that view the player list in the openrct2 server’s console.

network.players

(this console)

You will see ids of all connected players.

To change their role type in this command

network.players[{player id}].group = {group ip}

Example:

network.players[1].group = 2

Group ids:

Id	Group
0	Admin
1	Spectator
2	User

 

Q&A

Q: What do i need to run openrct2?

A: Rct2’s game data and openrct2.

Q: Can i use rct2’s game data from other sources than steam (GOG, retail CD)?

A: Yes.

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