How to choose the Terraria world size

Terraria World Size

The size of your Terraria world is small by default. You can choose the size before generating a world. This guide will show you how in a few simple steps.

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

Choose the world size

  1. Start your server
  2. Pause your server
  3. Open your server's files
  4. Edit the gameserver/serverconfig.txt file
  5. Change the line starting with autocreate= to one of the following:
    • autocreate=1 for a small world
    • autocreate=2 for a medium world
    • autocreate=3 for a large world
  6. Save the file
  7. Go into the gameserver folder and delete the Worlds folder
  8. Restart the server

Example file for large world

Here is an example of what your serverconfig.txt file could look like if you want to play on a large world:

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