Terraria Help Center
Guides, tutorials, and troubleshooting for your Terraria server
Getting Started
Getting Started with Your Terraria Server
Just bought a Terraria server? Read the join card, check the world and player settings, restart, and get your group in with the IP, port and password — in about five minutes.
How to Connect to Your Game Server
Learn how to connect to your newly provisioned game server using your server's IP address and port.
Server Management
Changing Your Terraria Server Settings
World name, size, difficulty, seed, max players, password, MOTD, language, update-on-restart and the build picker — what each does, why every change needs a restart, and why changing the World Name starts a different world.
Terraria Backups & Saves: Protecting and Uploading Your World
Where the .wld lives, how the game saves, what the .wld.bak rollbacks are, what the Backups tab snapshots, how to upload a world of your own, and the World Name switch that makes a world look lost.
Terraria Updates & Version Matching
How your server updates itself from terraria.org on every restart, how to pin a 1.4.5.x build before a patch to keep mobile friends in or match a friend’s client, why a pin cannot go below the build that last saved your world, why the server and the game must be on the same version, and what 1.4.6 day will look like.
How to Connect to Your Server with SFTP
Use FileZilla, WinSCP or any SFTP client to upload large mods and maps, edit configs and download backups. Find your details, set a password and connect.
Troubleshooting
Players Can't Join My Terraria Server
Server online but players get a version error or a timeout? Work through the version mismatch, wrong port, still-starting, password, full-server, unrestarted-change and console-platform checks.
Terraria Console Crossplay Status: Can PS5, Xbox and Switch Join?
Dated status page: console players cannot join a dedicated server today; Re-Logic plans IP-and-port joining for consoles in 1.4.6, Crossplay Phase One, with no release date. Updated when Re-Logic updates.
Troubleshooting Connection Issues
Can't connect to your game server? Quick checks first, then the exact errors for Minecraft, BeamMP, Palworld and Project Zomboid — and what to send support if you're still stuck.
Billing & Account
Understanding Your Invoice
Learn how to read your Connect Hosting invoice and understand billing cycles, charges, and payment methods.
Terraria Plans & Resources: Copper, Gold and Platinum
Every plan runs the same official server with sixteen player seats in any region. The difference is memory, and with Terraria memory is about world size — here is how to choose.
How to Cancel Your Server Subscription
Step-by-step guide to cancelling your server subscription and what happens after cancellation.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Troubleshooting Connection Issues
Can't connect to your game server? Quick checks first, then the exact errors for Minecraft, BeamMP, Palworld and Project Zomboid — and what to send support if you're still stuck.
ONBOARDING
How to Connect to Your Game Server
Learn how to connect to your newly provisioned game server using your server's IP address and port.
GUIDE
How to Cancel Your Server Subscription
Step-by-step guide to cancelling your server subscription and what happens after cancellation.
GUIDE
How to Connect to Your Server with SFTP
Use FileZilla, WinSCP or any SFTP client to upload large mods and maps, edit configs and download backups. Find your details, set a password and connect.
BILLING
Understanding Your Invoice
Learn how to read your Connect Hosting invoice and understand billing cycles, charges, and payment methods.
GUIDE
Terraria Console Crossplay Status: Can PS5, Xbox and Switch Join?
Dated status page: console players cannot join a dedicated server today; Re-Logic plans IP-and-port joining for consoles in 1.4.6, Crossplay Phase One, with no release date. Updated when Re-Logic updates.