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How to Download the Savegame of Your Terraria tShock Server

Download a savegame from a Terraria tShock server

2 min read
Jul 30, 2026

You can download your server's world to your PC at any time – for example as an additional backup, to archive it, or to move it to another server. tShock uses the regular Terraria world format: the entire world is contained in a single .wld file.

Download the world

  1. Stop the server
    Stop your server via the dashboard.

  2. Connect via SFTP
    Connect to your server via SFTP.

  3. Open the main directory
    The world file is located directly in the main directory of your server:

    /
    
  4. Download the world
    Download the .wld file of your world to your PC.

  5. Start the server
    Start your server again.

Other data that belongs to your savegame

Path Content
/<World Name>.wld The world itself – terrain, buildings, chests, NPCs
/tshock/tshock.sqlite Accounts, groups, bans and – with Server Side Characters enabled – the character data of your players
/tshock/config.json The tShock server settings
/tshock/backups/ The automatic world backups created by tShock
Written byEmeraldHost Team
Last updated on Jul 30, 2026 Edit on GitHub

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