Step-by-step guides for setting up and managing your game servers.
The settings that shape a ReSkate server: name, password and listing, admins and roles, reserved slots, map pool and rotation, player votes, AFK kicks and object limits, and how to change them without the server overwriting you.
Put custom maps in the server’s Mods folder, keep the Thunderstore folder name so players are offered the download, keep maps on their latest version, and spawn Park Editor parks for everyone with park-mod.
Self-host or rent, the Windows and Linux server, the first-run settings file, the Steam token the browser now requires, making yourself an admin, how players join, and why the server and players must be on the same ReSkate release.
The 1.0 server converts an Early Access world on its first boot. The savedata2-migration log lines from a real server, which files in savegame are involved, what to do if the lines never appear, and why the update is one-way.
Every serverconfig.txt key from the official 1.4.5.8 zip — world, autocreate, difficulty, maxplayers (1–255), port, password, worldrollbackstokeep, secure, npcstream, the fifteen Journey permissions — plus the command-line flags that duplicate them.
One .wld file: where worlds live on Windows and Linux, getting one out of Steam Cloud, placing it where worldpath points, why the name is the identity, and the two moves that do not exist — from tModLoader, and from a console.
Only two sourced figures exist: 500 MB for a small world (Terraria wiki) and at least 768 MB (Pelican egg README). What drives memory — world size first, players second — what nobody has measured, and how we size 2, 3 and 4 GB plans.
The official terraria.org server zip, a serverconfig.txt walk-through, TCP 7777, the exit-saves rule and the version-matching trap that breaks joins after every patch — the full Linux setup, from Re-Logic’s own downloads and the zip itself.
The savegame folder, the 10-minute autosave, why characters never move (Keen stores them client-side), the four-step transfer, what goes wrong, and the backup to take before and after.
Where user groups came from, the five flags, Keen’s Admin/Friend/Guest examples, reserved slots, the retired top-level password key, and why a fresh server ships closed with randomised passwords.
Keen’s numbers are 4.4 GB idle, 100 MB per player and no more than 6 GB, which is why 4 GB does not exist. What the figures cover, Keen’s CPU and disk guidance, what none of it tells you, and how to choose 6, 8 or 12 GB.
SteamCMD app 2278520, every key in enshrouded_server.json, UDP 15636 and 15637 on IPv4, how players join by name and role password, and the update routine that keeps the server on the players’ build — from Keen’s own articles.