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Before you start Take a backup first. Updates can change your world, and some mods stop working on a new game version. See Backups, and for the safe way to back up a Vintage Story world, Backing Up Vintage Story Safely. Updating keeps your world, mods, players...

What this is about Every Vintage Story server has a Mod Browser tab that connects straight to the official Vintage Story ModDB. You can search, install, update and remove mods in a couple of clicks, with no downloading zip files or uploading over SFTP. Install...

What this is about VS Tools lets you change your Vintage Story server's settings with simple forms instead of editing serverconfig.json by hand. It has five tabs: Tab What it's for Server Config Server name, password, player limit, and all the world and gamep...

What this is about The World page shows what's happening in your Vintage Story world without joining the game: a map of your world, drawn from your actual save file every player: online status, position, health, deaths, and more land claims and world settings ...

What this is about The Metrics page shows live graphs from inside your Vintage Story server: players online, tick rate (TPS), how long each game tick takes, chunks and entities loaded, memory, network, and which mods use the most time. Use it to answer "why is...

What this is about On the Backups tab for a Vintage Story server, you may see a warning that it is unsafe to back up while the server is running. This article explains why that happens, what can go wrong, and why ZFS-enabled nodes don't have this problem. You'...

This example starts the server at 12:00 PM and stops it at 3:00 PM every day. For everything else schedules can do (restart warnings, automatic backups, crash alerts), see Schedules: automating your server. Schedules use your server's timezone. Set it first un...

This replaces the world on your server. If you might want the current world back, take a backup first. If you're going to use an existing save first open VintageStory and click singleplayer, then click the "Open Saves Folder" button in the bottom left.  Once t...

You can design a world in single player with exactly the settings you want (climate, world size, creature hostility and so on) and then use those settings on your server. This creates a new world on your server. The current world is deleted in step 3, so take ...

Quick fixes for the problems we see most often. For general crashes and startup failures, also see My server won't start or keeps crashing. "I can't join my server" Is the server running? The Console should show Running, and the log should end with "Dedicated ...