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Update an Enshrouded server

Players on a newer Enshrouded version cannot join until the server updates. Restart the server to update it, or let it update itself when it is empty.

Updated , checked on Enshrouded 0.9.0.0 (server build 23178631)

An Enshrouded server must run the same version as the players’ game. When Keen Games release an update, players who have it cannot join until the server has it too. To update, restart the server with Update on start switched on. The server downloads the new version as it starts.

Checked on the 0.9 server. Enshrouded 1.0 is released on 15 October 2026.

Getting ready for 1.0

The server follows the public Enshrouded server build on Steam. When Keen publish the 1.0 server build there, Update on start (and the panel’s automatic restart of an outdated empty server) brings it. Until the server has 1.0, a 1.0 game cannot join. No date for the server build is promised.

  • Make a backup now, before the update. See backups and saves.
  • Keen have not said in our sources whether a 0.9 world loads on 1.0.

In the ArthOS panel

  1. Open the Startup page and check that Update on start is on. It is on by default.
  2. Open the Players page. If an update is out, a notice reads “An Enshrouded update is out”. It says players who have it cannot join until the server restarts, which downloads it.
  3. Choose Restart and update.
The Startup page with the Update on start switch
  1. Update on start

The switch is Update on start (box 1).

If Update on start is off, the notice says so and offers Open Startup instead. Turn it on, then restart.

You can also restart from the Console with the normal power buttons. The update runs at the start either way.

The server updates itself when it is empty

You do not have to watch for updates. The panel looks about every two minutes. If your server is running, behind the newest public version, Update on start is on and nobody is playing, it restarts the server once for that version. It never restarts a server with players on, and it tries each version only once so a failed download cannot loop. The restart is written in the server’s activity.

If players are on, the notice stays up. Warn them, then choose Restart and update yourself.

The Players page shows the Game build of the server in its row of figures.

By hand

Anywhere else, update with SteamCMD. The Windows server has Steam app ID 2278520:

steamcmd +force_install_dir <server folder> +login anonymous +@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType windows +app_update 2278520 validate +quit

Stop the server first, then start it again afterwards.

If it does not work

  • Players still cannot join after the restart. Their game may be newer than the server, as with 1.0 before the server has the 1.0 build. Once Keen publish the server build, restart again.
  • There is no Restart and update button. Update on start is off, the server is stopped, or your role cannot restart the server.
  • The notice is back after a restart. The newest version may not have downloaded. Restart once more and look at the Console.
  • The server did not restart itself. Someone was on, or Update on start is off. It also tries each version once.

More about the game: Enshrouded servers.

Sources: store.steampowered.com: 1203620

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