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# How to steam update your game server

This guide will help you on how to Steam update your server and **below how to force a steam update. **

1. Stop your server
2. Press the Steam Update button on your control panel
3. Will open a black window with the update process, wait until it finishes
4. Start your server

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You can **force steam update** validation check by clearing the steam cache, just delete the \steamapps\ folder from the root of your server to clear the steam cache before update.

1. Stop the game server
2. Go to MORE on the control panel (see screenshot below)
3. Click "Force Steam Update". This clears the steam cache prior to updating and ensures a full validation of your server files, this will remove all mods as it will redownload each file that does not match the Steam repositary. 



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