How to Change Your Necesse Server Settings

Necesse splits its configuration in two. server.cfg holds the technical settings, and a separate world settings file holds the gameplay rules.

Open the file

1. Stop the server. Necesse rewrites its config when it shuts down cleanly, so an edit made while it is running is overwritten with no error.
2. In the panel open Files and go to:

   cfg/server.cfg

The settings that matter

port=14159
slots=8
password=
motd=Welcome to the server
pauseWhenEmpty=true
giveClientsPower=false
maxClientLatencySeconds=10
language=en

• password empty is an open server.
• pauseWhenEmpty freezes the world when nobody is online, which stops time passing and raids happening while you sleep.
• giveClientsPower is the one to think about. Set to true, any connected player can change world settings. That is fine for a group of friends and a bad idea on a public server. Leave it false and grant admin properly instead.
• Do not change port. It must match the port allocated to your server on the overview page.

Slots

Your plan's slot count is applied through the SERVER_SLOTS variable on your server's Startup Settings page, reachable from the server overview. Raising slots in the config alone does not add slots. Upgrade the plan in the billing area to run more players.

World settings

Gameplay rules such as PvP, raids and survival difficulty are in the world settings file that sits beside the config, named for world settings rather than server settings. Those belong to the world, so they follow the save rather than the server.

Worlds and saves

Worlds are stored in the server's save folder. To start fresh, stop the server, download the current world as a backup from Files, then let the server create a new one. To bring a single player world across, upload it into the same folder with the server stopped.

Apply and verify

1. Save the file.
2. Start the server.
3. Read the console, which reports the settings it loaded. If a change did not take, the server was running when you edited.