If you are looking for a guide on how to get started click here

This is a basic example of a docker compose, you can apply any of the variables above to the environment section below but be sure to follow each variables description notes!

version: "3"
services:
  valheim:
    image: mbround18/valheim:latest
    ports:
      - 2456:2456/udp
      - 2457:2457/udp
      - 2458:2458/udp
    environment:
      - PORT=2456
      - NAME="Created With Valheim Docker"
      - WORLD="Dedicated"
      - PASSWORD="Banana Phone"
      - TZ=America/Chicago
      - PUBLIC=1
    volumes:
    - ./valheim/saves:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
    - ./valheim/server:/home/steam/valheim

version: "3"
services:
  valheim:
    image: mbround18/valheim:latest
    ports:
      - 2456:2456/udp
      - 2457:2457/udp
      - 2458:2458/udp
    environment:
      - PORT=2456
      - NAME="Created With Valheim Docker"
      - WORLD="Dedicated"
      - PASSWORD="Strong! Password @ Here"
      - TZ=America/Chicago
      - PUBLIC=1
      - AUTO_UPDATE=1
      - AUTO_UPDATE_SCHEDULE="0 1 * * *"
      - AUTO_BACKUP=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE="*/15 * * * *"
      - AUTO_BACKUP_REMOVE_OLD=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_DAYS_TO_LIVE=3
      - AUTO_BACKUP_ON_UPDATE=1
      - AUTO_BACKUP_ON_SHUTDOWN=1
    volumes:
      - ./valheim/saves:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
      - ./valheim/server:/home/steam/valheim
      - ./valheim/backups:/home/steam/backups

This repo has a CLI tool called Odin in it! It is used for managing the server inside the container. If you are looking for instructions for it click here: Odin

• latest (Stable):
  • #100 Added backup feature to run based on cronjob.
• 1.2.0 (Stable):
  • Readme update to include the versions section and environment variables section.
  • #18 Changed to root as the default user to allow updated steams User+Group IDs.
  • #18 Fixed issue with the timezone not persisting.
  • To exec into the container you now have to include the -u|--user argument to access steam directly. Example docker-compose exec --user steam valheim bash
  • There is now a dry-run command argument on odin to preview what the command would do.
  • You can run with -d|--debug to get verbose logging of what odin is doing.
  • #11 Added check for length of password and fail on odin install or odin stop failures.
  • #24 Added public variable to dockerfile and odin
  • #35 Fix for the server to now utilizing SIGINT YOU WILL HAVE TO MANUALLY STOP YOUR SERVER; use pidof valheim_server.x86_64 to get the pid and then kill -2 $pid but replace pid with the pid from pidof
  • #53 Formatted scripts to be more useful and added timezone scheduling.
  • #77 Fix auto update not acknowledging variables and added odin to system bin.
  • #89 Daemonized the server process by using rust specific bindings rather than dropping down to shell.
• 1.1.1 (Stable):
  • Includes PR #10 to fix the double world argument.
• 1.1.0 (Stable):
  • Includes a fix for #3 and #8.
  • Improves the script interface and separation of concerns, files now have a respective code file that supports interactions for cleaner development experience.
  • Docker image is cleaned up to provide a better usage experience. There is now an AUTO_UPDATE feature.
  • Has a bug where the script has two entries for the world argument.
• 1.0.0 (Stable):
  • It works! It will start your server and stop when you shut down.
  • This supports passing in environment variables or arguments to odin
  • Has a bug in which it does not read passed in variables appropriately to Odin. Env variables are not impacted see #3.