How to update your Icarus server

Your server updates itself when it starts: with Auto Update on, each start checks Steam for a newer Icarus server build and installs it. To update now, restart the server.

Update now

1. Open your server in the panel.
2. Click Restart, ideally while nobody is playing. See How to start, stop, restart and force-stop your server.
3. Watch the Console. A start that downloads an update takes longer than usual.

To do this every day by itself: How to restart your Icarus server on a schedule.

Auto Update

1. Click the Settings tab, then Game Settings.
2. Click Show advanced (1) at the bottom of the list.
3. Auto Update is on by default.

Switch it off only to stay on the build you have for a while, for example while a mod you use is updated for the new game version. Players whose game has updated cannot join a server that is behind, so switch it back on soon.

Branches

The Icarus server type has no branch choice: the server always installs the current public build from Steam.

Good to know

• Take a backup before a big game update: How to back up and restore your Icarus world.
• After an update, mods can stop working until their authors update them: Players are disconnected after you add a mod to your Icarus server.