How to choose a Terraria world seed

Terraria World Seed

Every Terraria world is generated based on a so called seed. Terraria world seeds are random strings by default. To generate a specific world, you can set a custom seed. This guide will show you how in a few simple steps.

Note that the world seed must be set before the world is generated. This can be done by deleting the world right after creating a server.

Setting your worlds seed

  1. Start your server
  2. Pause your server
  3. Open your server's files
  4. Edit the gameserver/serverconfig.txt file
  5. Add a new line saying seed=YourSeedHere
  6. Save the file
  7. Go into the gameserver folder and delete the Worlds folder
  8. Restart the server

Generating a "for the worthy" world

Here is an example of what your serverconfig.txt file could look like if you want to play on a "for the worthy" world. The "for the worthy" seed is a special seed that generates a very difficult world.

world=Worlds/world1.wld
worldpath=Worlds/
worldname=world1
autocreate=3
difficulty=0
seed=for the worthy
maxplayers=32
port=7777
password=
motd=Yet another Squadnox server
banlist=banlist.txt
secure=1
language=en-US