Introduction

Counter-Strike 2 supports loading a server with workshop content. This is important because it allows your players to automatically fetch custom content as they are joining rather than manually loading it into their client folder.

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Prerequisites / Disclaimers

• Purchased a Counter-Strike 2 server

• Access to Steam workshop

Purpose

To configure the server to startup and load with workshop content, once a player joins they are automatically served that content and can join without issues.

Procedure

Fetching workshop identifiers

First we need to get the ID of the workshop content you want to load onto the server.

1. Open Steam Community

2. Browse to the Counter-Strike 2 workshop

3. Once you have found what you want look at the URL (as shown below)
   
   

   

   Look at the ?id=1234567890

   
   

4. Copy the value after the ?id= i.e. 3437809122

5. Now with this copied we can move onto the next steps

Pasting your workshop identifier into the Game Panel

1. Open up the Game Panel

2. Head over to your server

3. Stop your server if it is running

4. Click on Startup Parameters
   
   

   
   
   

   
   

5. Paste the workshop identifier into the “Workshop ID” parameter

   1. Hint: To save left-click away from the box!
      
      

      

      Enter your identifer

      
      

6. You may now start your server

7. Players who join will receive the workshop content, if you ever want to turn off the custom content you can just remove the value and leave it blank to return the server back to normal

8. Done! ⭐

Loading a workshop map (alternative)

An alternative way to loading a workshop map is by leaving the server on and just entering the workshop identifier (Fetching workshop identifiers ➡️) in the Console of the server as it is running if you prefer. (This just means on start-up the server won’t receive the map)

1. Open the Game Panel

2. If not already, navigate to the Console page

3. Type host_workshop_map {workshopid}, for example host_workshop_map 3437809122 and hit ENTER

4. The server will change the map over to the new map (as shown below)
   
   

   

   Console output confirming the change

   
   

5. Done! ⭐

Tips!

If you are using a workshop collection you can list all the maps within the collection with ds_workshop_listmaps.

You can change the level using the ds_workshop_changelevel command to another workshop map using the name.

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