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Terraria guides
Terraria: 31 server guides on joining, world imports and tModLoader mods, from Play Your Way, in plain English.
Getting Started
Create a Skyblock Terraria Server
Make a Skyblock world on your Terraria server from the Worlds tab, combine it with other seeds on your PC, and see why it needs TShock.
How to join your Terraria server
Join your Terraria server by IP and port from Terraria or tModLoader, see which versions can play together, and fix a friend who can't connect.
Terraria server: tModLoader, tShock and joining by IP
Join your new server, upload your own world, claim tShock admin and switch to tModLoader - all from the panel.
Use Special Seeds on Your Terraria Server
Make a Terraria world from a special seed in your server's Worlds tab, or upload one with a secret or combined seed made on your PC.
Server Management
Settings & Admin
Ban Items on Your Terraria TShock Server
Ban items with the itemban console command, let chosen groups keep using them, and stop admins spawning banned items on TShock.
Change Invasion Settings on Terraria TShock
Set invasion size and endless invasions in the Server Settings tab, then start or end goblin, pirate and moon events from the console.
Change Max Players on Your Terraria Server
Change Player slots on the Startup tab for TShock or tModLoader, and see how TShock's reserved slots can let extra players in.
Change PvP Settings on Your Terraria Server
Force PvP on, turn it off, or leave it to each player with the PvP setting in the Server Settings tab of a Terraria TShock server.
Change the Terraria Server Respawn Timer
Set how many seconds players wait to respawn, with a separate timer for boss fights, using TShock's Server Settings. Includes safe limits.
Enable Journey Mode on Your Terraria Server
Make a Journey world on your Terraria server, then give players the Power Menu with TShock permissions or tModLoader config lines.
Make a Hardcore-Only Terraria Server
Turn away softcore and mediumcore characters with TShock's Hardcore only switch, and choose what a hardcore death costs a player.
Set Spawn Protection on a Terraria Server
Turn spawn protection on, set its radius in tiles, and choose who can still build there on a TShock Terraria server.
Stop Biome Spreading on Your Terraria Server
Stop the Corruption, Crimson and Hallow from spreading with three TShock config settings, or with the Journey Infection Spread power.
Terraria TShock admin commands and groups
Claim your TShock Terraria server, make admins, kick and ban, let in only the players you add, and change group permissions with TShock commands.
Turn Off Anti-Cheat on Your Terraria Server
Turn off tModLoader's Cheat protection, or loosen TShock's separate anti-cheat checks with settings and group permissions, and keep the server safe.
Mods & Plugins
Add tModLoader mods to your Terraria server
Install Steam Workshop mods on your tModLoader Terraria server in a few clicks, upload .tmod files, switch mods off and keep them up to date.
Add TShock Plugins to Your Terraria Server
Upload a TShock plugin .dll into the ServerPlugins folder with File Manager, restart, give your group its permissions and remove or update it later.
Edit tModLoader Mod Config on Your Server
Change a tModLoader mod's server settings by making its ModConfigs JSON on your PC or editing it in File Manager, and fix changes that don't stick.
Files & Backups
How to import a Terraria or tModLoader world
Import a Terraria or tModLoader world from your PC with World Import, find the worlds folder, keep your current world, and fix one that won't load.
Put a Workshop World on Your Terraria Server
Import a Steam Workshop world in Terraria, rename the .wld and load it on your server with World Import, with the checks that stop a blank world.
Troubleshooting
Game guides
Build a Basic NPC House in Terraria
What a valid Terraria NPC house needs, how the Housing Query checks it, and what 1.4.5 changed for homeless villagers.
Create a Terraria Character on PC
Make a new Terraria character on PC, set its look and difficulty, and see which characters can join your server.
Duplicate Items in Terraria Journey Mode
Research items and duplicate them from the Journey Power Menu in Terraria, plus what a Journey server and character need.
Play as a Vampire in Terraria
Start Terraria's Vampirism secret seed, survive the sun, and use the Vampire vanity set and Amulet of the Night bat mount.
Set Up Automatic Storage Chests in Terraria
Use wired chests that collect drops, Quick and Similar Stack to nearby chests, and crafting from nearby chests in Terraria.
Terraria Dead Cells Crossover Guide
Every Dead Cells item in Terraria 1.4.5, from Flint and the Barrel Launcher to the Ram Rune, with where each one comes from.
Terraria Palworld Crossover Items
Every Palworld item in Terraria, from Cattiva and Digtoise to the Chillet mounts, Kinship Peaches and the Pal Metal set.
Terraria Transformation Mounts Guide
The four Terraria 1.4.5 transformation mounts, Velociraptor, Rat, Bat and Pixie, with where to get each and what it does.
View Player Boss Damage in Terraria
See how much damage each player dealt in recent boss fights with the /bossdamage chat command added in Terraria 1.4.5.
Get a Terraria server
Your choice of location, online in minutes, and these guides are a click away from the panel.
Terraria servers here run vanilla or tModLoader, switched on the Startup tab's Server software card with your worlds moving across. A world from your PC is a .wld file imported on the World Import tab, and tModLoader mods upload as .tmod files in the Mods tab.