Server Management
Terraria articles in this category
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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.
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.
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.