A quick guide how to setup Space Engineers Dedicated server on a Linux box with Wine

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Ubuntu 14.04/14.10 SpaceEngineers Dedicated Server

Here's a quick guide how to run SpaceEngineers Dedicated Server on Ubuntu with Wine

Requirements

• A copy of Space Engineers
• A Windows box
• A Linux box running Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10 (It'll probably work on other distros, YMMV)

Step #1: Install & configure Wine1.6 and dependencies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.6
winetricks -q dotnet40
rm -r ~/.wine
WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot

Step #2: Copy necessary files to Linux box

Server binaries

There are multiple ways for transfering files, easiets would probably be using SCP, WinSCP works well for that. You'll want to transfer the DedicatedServer.zip file found in

[Steam install directory]\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Tools

Unpack the zip somewhere inside

~/.wine/drive_c/users/$(whoami)/

World and config files

The easiest way to do this is to just generate them locally and copy them over to the server, this can be done by using the dedicated server tool on your windows box, the tool is located in

[Steam intall directory]\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Tools\DedicatedServer\SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe

1. Select the Default profile
2. Set up the world
3. Save the config
4. Start to generate the world.

The files will be stored in

C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineersDedicated\Default

Edit the SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg and copy it with the Saves folder to the following directory on your Linux box

~/.wine/drive_c/users/$(whoami)/Application\ Data/SpaceEngineersDedicated

Step #3: Tweaks

You'll have to change the <LoadWorld> tag so it point to the correct directory.

If the Save folder is located in

~/.wine/drive_c/users/$(whoami)/Application\ Data/SpaceEngineersDedicated/Saves/Created 2015-03-30 2331

the <LoadWorld> tag must look like this, where {username} is the same as $(whoami)

<LoadWorld>C:\Users\{username}\Application Data\SpaceEngineersDedicated\Default\Saves\Created 2015-03-30 2331</LoadWorld> 

You still need to use windows paths.

Step #4: Run it

1. Go to the directory where you have the dedicated server files
2. wine SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe -console

Notes:

• There will be a lot of messages regarding xserver, ignore them
• Errors like fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System.Core" are okay, ignore them.
• Be sure to run 32bit, wine doesn't like the 64bit one.
• There is a small bug where after stopping the server you will no longer see what you're typing into the console.
• This guide is based on the guide I found over at Keen Software House Forums created by AdamAnt

Maybe checkout this wine installation script from mmmaxwwwell for setting up the wineprefix:
https://github.com/mmmaxwwwell/space-engineers-dedicated-docker-linux/blob/v2/install-winetricks
I also needed dotnet48 and vcrun20XX, but can't comment on docker setups though, as I now run this on nixos as a flake.
Most likely 0024:err:mscoree:CLRRuntimeInfo_GetRuntimeHost Wine Mono is not installed is caused by these missing.

The wine32 thing just sounds like some warning one could ignore. I always use a 64bit wineprefix for space engineers and it works with the most recent version.