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Terraria | How to Set a Password to your Terraria Vanilla Server

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Click View on your Server

On the Left side, Click Files

Locate and Open serverconfig.txt

Open config.json

There will be

worldpath=/home/container/saves/Worlds
worldname=world
world=/home/container/saves/Worlds/world.wld
difficulty=3
autocreate=1
port=25565
maxplayers=8
motd=Welcome!

Just add password=yourpassword below motd=Welcome!

Example

worldpath=/home/container/saves/Worlds
worldname=world
world=/home/container/saves/Worlds/world.wld
difficulty=3
autocreate=1
port=25565
maxplayers=8
motd=Welcome!
password=skynode

Click Save and Restart your server.

All done! Remember to only share it with people you want to play with!

Updated on: 23/05/2021

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