How to let a friend help run your Terraria server

TerrariaUpdated Oct 24, 20263 min read

Invite your friend from Team & Roles, and give them a role with the permissions for what they should do. Playing on the server needs only the address. Running it in the panel needs a role.

Invite someone

Open your server in the panel and click Team & Roles in the left menu. On a computer you can also use Invite people at the end of the tab row.
Invite them by email and choose a role.

The steps and the built-in roles are in How to invite friends and give them access.

Which permission a Terraria task needs

On the Roles tab you tick permissions in areas such as Control, Files, Backups, Settings and Schedules:

Task	Permissions it needs
Use the Console and send commands	Control: Use the console
Kick and Ban on the Active players card	Control: Use the console
See the Bans list	Use the console, plus Files: Read contents
Unban in the Bans list	Use the console, plus Files: Read contents and Create and upload
Start, stop, restart	Control: Start, Stop, Restart
Change Game Settings	Settings: Change startup
The Workshop page (tModLoader)	Settings: Change startup
TShock's `config.json` page	Files: Read contents to open it, Edit and rename to save
Change the slots	Settings: Rename server
See TShock plugins on the Modding tab	Files: Browse files
Install a TShock plugin	Files: Create and upload
Uninstall a TShock plugin	Files: Delete
Take a backup	Backups: Create
Restore a backup	Backups: Restore
Add or change schedules	Schedules

If a button is missing for your friend, their role does not have the permission for it. Deleting files and restoring backups can lose a world: give those only to people you trust.

Admin in the game is separate

A panel role is not the same as being admin in the game. On Terraria Vanilla and tModLoader there are no in-game admins: moderation is done from the panel. On TShock, admins are TShock accounts in a group: How to become admin on your TShock server and How to manage TShock groups and permissions.

Good to know

To remove access, open Team & Roles and remove the person.
To see who did what, use Activity: How to see what happened on your server.

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