Activate whitelist in Terraria

A whitelist is especially important if you want to play with your friends without other users. For this you have to install TShock on your server, then you can configure the whitelist.

Written on Oct 29, 2021

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{warningbox}}To configure the whitelist in Terraria you need to have TShock installed first.{{/warningbox}}

Activate whitelist

stop your server
connect via FTP to your Terraria server
open the configuration file config.json in the tshock directory
search for the option "EnableWhiteList": false
enable the whitelist by changing false to true
start your server so that the changes are applied

Add players to the whitelist

The whitelist in Terraria works based on the IP address of the player. Unfortunately, there is no function to add a player name or player ID.

Via console

Open the server console
Sdd a new IP address with the command whitelist IP-ADDRESS
1. Example: whitelist 127.0.0.1

Via FTP (file)

Connect again via FTP to your Terraria server
Open the whitelist.txt file
Enter one IP address per line in the following format whitelist IP ADDRESS
1. Example: whitelist 127.0.0.1