Server Side Characters (SSC)

What Server Side Characters are

Server Side Characters is a special mechanism designed for Terraria servers that forces players to start with fresh characters when they join. This means they lose all of their items. This is purely server-side, though, it will not affect their actual Singleplayer character. Server Side Characters are what you need if you wish to prevent people from bringing in items from other servers and/or singleplayer and force them to start from scratch.

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The SuperAdmin bypasses SSC

The SuperAdmin account has all permissions on your server. This includes the permission to ignore Server Side Characters (tshock.ignore.ssc).
If you want to start with a fresh character and still have SuperAdmin privileges, create a new group and grant it the following permissions: *, !tshock.ignore.ssc. This will enable every permission (*), then negate the SSC ignoring permission (!tshock.ignore.ssc).
Example: /group addperm <group name> * !tshock.ignore.ssc

Enabling Server Side Characters and configuring the setup

All you have to do to enable Server Side Characters is open the tshock folder -> sscconfig.json and set the Enabled flag to true.

The configuration file:

Text

{
  "Enabled": false,
  "ServerSideCharacterSave": 5,
  "LogonDiscardThreshold": 250,
  "StartingHealth": 100,
  "StartingMana": 20,
  "StartingInventory": [
    {
      "netID": -15,
      "prefix": 0,
      "stack": 1
    },
    {
      "netID": -13,
      "prefix": 0,
      "stack": 1
    },
    {
      "netID": -16,
      "prefix": 0,
      "stack": 1
    }
  ]
}

Enabled

• Type: Boolean
• Description: Indicates whether SSC is enabled or not

ServerSideCharacterSave

• Type: Int32
• Description: Represents the save interval, in minutes. This means that the server will create a backup of every player's character and save it every 5 minutes

LogonDiscardThreshold

• Type: Int32
• Description: The time to disallow discarding items after logging in

StartingHealth

• Type: Int32
• Description: The amount of health points players are given upon initial login

StartingMana

• Type: Int32
• Description: The amount of mana points players are given upon initial login

StartingInventory

• Type: TShockAPI.NetItem[]
• Description: Represents the starting kit. Players are given copper tools by default, but you can change this by modifying the netID field. You can find a list of item IDs on Terraria's wiki page.