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Terraria server guides
Everything you need to run a Terraria server with friends: setting it up, getting everyone in, configs, mods, backups and fixes for common errors. Written by the Wilderack Crew and checked against Re-Logic’s own documentation.
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- Getting started
How to make a Terraria server
Create a Terraria server, choose vanilla, tModLoader or TShock, pick a plan and world, start it, use admin commands and get your friends in.
- How to connect
How to connect to your Terraria server
Join your Terraria server with Join via IP on PC or mobile, use the address and port, join with tModLoader or TShock, and fix it when it won't connect.
- Config reference
Terraria server config reference
Every important serverconfig.txt and TShock config.json setting for your Terraria server, what it does, which need a restart, and how to set up admins and bans.
- Mods and plugins
Terraria server mods and plugins
Add Steam Workshop mods to a tModLoader server or plugins to a TShock server, install them by hand, and keep your friends' mods in sync.
- Backups and your world
Back up and move your Terraria world
How Terraria backups work on Wilderack, where world files live on the server and your PC, and how to upload a single-player or tModLoader world.
- Performance tips
Terraria server performance and RAM guide
How much RAM a Terraria, tModLoader or TShock server needs, how world size and mods change it, the settings worth knowing and how to read the graphs.
- Common errors
Fix common Terraria server errors
Fixes for the Terraria, tModLoader and TShock server errors players really see, from version mismatches and bans to new empty worlds and mod crashes.
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