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2022 Guide - Half Life 1 Dedicated Server Setup for Mods

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I'm making this due to the disparity of guides out there on how to do this. You can pretty easily learn how to setup a dedicated server, but nothing really tells you how to install mods such as Natural Selection, that aren't widely covered by other guides.

Mods I've tested so far:
Natural Selection
Action Half Life

Tools to Download:

SteamCMD GUI - Direct Download Link - DOWNLOAD THIS
SteamCMD GUI - GitHub Homepage

Step 1 - SETTING UP STEAM CMD.GUI & STEAM CMD

Pick and create a working directory to keep things tidy
I plan to install a few Half Life mods, so i'm working off my D:\ Drive

D:\Half Life Dedicated Servers\

Create a few folders we'll be working out of...

D:\Half Life Dedicated Servers\Steam CMD.GUI

D:\Half Life Dedicated Servers\hlds

Download Steam CMD.GUI and Extract/Move it into the folder we made for it
Open it, and in the top right - Click Download SteamCMD (this downloads SteamCMD, which will allow us to download the hlds server tool.

This usually downloads steamcmd.zip, we'll need to extract it - head to the folder Steam CMD.GUI is in, and find and extract SteamCMD, there's no need to move it.

Go back into SteamCMD.GUI and in the Update/Install tab, under the Steam CMD Configuration Section click Browser, and Find/Choose your SteamCMD.GUI folder steamcmd.exe is in.

Step 2 - SETTING HLDS - Half Life Dedicated Server

In SteamCMD GUI under - Server Configuration - use the dropdown to pick - Half Life Dedicated Server
Click the tickbox - Login as Anonymous
In Server Path choose the folder you'd like to download you dedicated server to, if your following a similar path to me, I put my dedicated server in

D:\Half Life Dedicated Servers\hlds

After that click - Update/Install, this should open a console and you can watch as it progresses

- SAVED FOR NOW, THIS IS A DRAFT

Hello Mod DB!!!!

deadrawkstar Blog

Just became a new member here at moddb, i hope to benefit the community in some way, i have alot of mods backed up on my 1.5 TB hdd, so if you need something mirrored HOLLA!

I have to say first and foremorest, i love half life, i've been really into the modding community ever since i've played natural selection for Half Life, im egarly awaiting alot of Half Life 2 mods to be released, at the top of that list, for me is: BlackMesa: Source. Its half life.... but with half life 2's graphics, maybe some new features but just the idea's epic! Right after that for multiplayer mods is NS2 and MS:S.
I used to play MvM for NS way back in the days, and now we'll be able to play that again (in a newer sense of course). I can not forget Master Sword and Master Sword Continued!!!. It's probably one of the best (and few) Half Life RPG Mods, it's graphics were more than pathetic but it was just mindless fun.