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How To Upload A World To Your Terraria Server

Whether you want to upload a single player world, use a custom world or import your world from another provider you can easily do this if you have access to your .wld file.

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Locating Your World File

Before you can upload an existing world to your server you first need to locate it. Below you can see the common location for single player worlds across each operating system.

OS

Directory

Windows

C:\Users\%userprofile%\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds

Mac

~/Library/Application Support/Terraria/Players

Linux

~/.local/share/Terraria/Players

Uploading A World

1 Login to the Kinetic Panel and Stop your server.

2 Go to the File Manager

Kinetic Panel File Manager

3 Open the worlds folder.

4 Click Upload and select your .wld file.

5 Go to the Settings page

6 Locate the WORLDNAME option and set it to the name of your .wld file.

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