How to start your DDNet server for the first time

Click Start on your server's Overview page. A DDNet server is small and starts in a few seconds: when the badge says Online and the Console shows successfully registered, players can find it in the DDNet server browser.

Start it

1. Open your server in the panel.
2. Click Start.
3. Open the Console tab, or watch the small console on Overview.

What the Console shows

• With Game Version on latest (the default), the server checks ddnet.org for a new DDNet release and installs it first.
• server: server name is '...' and server: version ...: the server has loaded with your name and its DDNet version.
• server: Found ... maps for maplist: the maps on the server, which players can vote for.
• register/6/ipv4: successfully registered and register/7/ipv4: successfully registered: the server is listed in the DDNet server browser.
• [PlayNHost] Made 0.7 copies of ... map(s): the server prepared your maps for players on the older Teeworlds 0.7 client.

What a new server already has

• Server name: My DDNet server. Change it before you invite people.
• Server password: empty, so anyone can join.
• Server map: Tutorial, plus the maps that come with DDNet.
• RCON Password: a password of its own, made when the server was set up. You need it to be admin in the game.
• Cheats (test commands): off, so the server is a normal DDNet server.
• Public server list: ipv4, so the server shows in the browser.

Next steps

1. Set the name and password.
2. Join your server.
3. Log in as admin.
4. Upload your maps.

If the server does not start, see DDNet server problems and fixes.