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.

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.