Note

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it doesn't require Godot or anything other than Steamworks.

Webfishing Cove

Cove is a dedicated server for WebFishing written in C#.

Features

• Lightweight and fast – Because of the lightweight nature of the server, it can run with less than 1 GB of RAM with 20+ players.
• Moderation – Moderation is built into the Cove.ChatCommands plugin bundled with the server.
• Plugins – Plugins have full access to the internal server classes, allowing for extreme customization.
• .NET – Cove is written in C# on the .NET framework, making plugin development easy, fast, and accessible.
• Support – Cove has a Discord server for fast support for anything related to Cove (including plugin development).

How it works

Cove uses none of WebFishing's code. Instead, it uses C# to emulate the same network calls that the official game makes to host a lobby.

Things like event spawning all had to be written from scratch to allow for the portability of C#.

Because of this emulation, to run the server you must use a Steam account that owns the game and has Steam open in the background.

If you have any questions or issues with Cove, create an issue on GitHub or join the Discord Server.

Todo

• Spawn actors required for the metal detector
• Improve error handling
• Add plugin / modding support (C# API)
• Add proper support for actor handling
• Make hostspawn and metalspawn IHostedService instances
• Write a plugin guide / how to create plugins (can be found here: Plugins.md)

How to run

Note

To run a server, you must have Steam open on the computer you wish to run the server on,
and Steam must be logged into an account that has WebFishing in its library.

Also note that you can't join the server on the same account that is hosting it.

1. Download

   • You can download the most recent version of the server here: Nightly Releases
   • Or, if you want the latest stable version, it is here: Latest Release
   • A new build is made every time the code is changed, so it may update quite often.
   • Also make sure you have the .NET 8 runtime installed. You can download it here.

2. Change settings

   • If you don’t see the config files (server.cfg & admins.cfg), run the server once and they should be created in the same directory as the application.
   • You can modify the settings in the server.cfg file with all the information you want.
   • To add an admin, put their Steam64 ID in the admins.cfg file with = true after it.
   • Example: 76561198288728683 = true

3. Run

   • Run the server and enjoy.
   • Please be respectful and don’t name the server anything stupid.

4. Look below

   • Links for finding or creating plugins are below.

Other info

Some default / popular plugins can be found in the CovePlugins repo.

The repository for a template plugin can be found here: CovePluginTemplate.

More plugins can be found in the Cove Discord server listed above.