EternalLight

Brilliant, thanks for the quick and detailed answer. Thanks for the whitelisting tip as well, I had seen it was whitelist only by default but was just going to turn it off as it's local network only.

Hi, having made a start on a local game on my Steam Deck I am finding it's struggling. I do have a local PC that could quite easily run a server just for me, but is there a way of transferring my local game on to the server? I don't suppose it's as simple as copying the save game files on to the server somewhere?

Quick update on this, many thanks to SuperDynamicCow and of course the OP for the controller zip, that has worked fine. Apologies for the delay in thanks, the Steam Deck was a Christmas present so it was only today that we were able to retry. We do have a secondary problem in that Steam + X isn't bringing up the keyboard, but to save me making the same mistake I went through this thread with a fine toothcomb, and I'm 99% it's because we're coming from desktop mode. Fingers crossed a quick reboot straight into gaming mode will resolve that one.

Hi, I'm also looking for a good controller layout as a new arrival to Vintage Story. I can see many community layouts but nothing that refers to Mark 1, 1.1 etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.