Installation

PalCommand is distributed for Windows (NSIS/MSI installers), built via the tauri-action release matrix. On first run, PalCommand downloads SteamCMD itself. It is never bundled with the app. PalCommand uses it to install the Palworld dedicated server (Steam app ID 2394010, anonymous login, roughly 7-12 GB per install). Before it starts that download, Create checks that the chosen install root’s drive actually has room (a floor of 15 GB free) and refuses with the real free-space number if it doesn’t, instead of failing partway through the download with a bare SteamCMD exit code. Because the Palworld server does not support redirecting its save directory, each managed server gets its own full installation under a user-chosen root (default C:\PalCommandServers, editable with a Browse picker in the create wizard).

For the step-by-step create/install/first-start walkthrough, see Your First Server. The create wizard it describes has shipped.

Windows code-signing (Azure Artifact Signing or an OV certificate) is a founder-owned setup item that has not happened yet (tracked in this project’s USER-SETUP.md, item 4). Until a signed build ships, expect a Windows SmartScreen warning on first run; there is nothing PalCommand’s own installer can do about that on an unsigned build. See App Settings for what to expect from Windows Firewall specifically.