How to set the welcome message on your Terraria server

The welcome message, or MOTD, is the MOTD setting in Settings, Game Settings. Type your message, restart the server, and players see it when they join.

Change it

1. Open your server in the panel and click the Settings tab.
2. Click Game Settings.
3. Type your message in MOTD and click outside the field.

4. Click Restart now in the banner, or restart later. The message applies from the next start.

Limits per server type

On Terraria Vanilla the panel refuses accented letters because the game would show them as code. Write the message without accents.

A longer welcome on TShock

TShock has its own, longer welcome text in the file tshock/motd.txt. Open the Files tab, go to the tshock folder and edit motd.txt. See How to upload, edit and manage your server files.

Good to know

• On Terraria Vanilla, typing motd and a message in the Console changes it only until the next restart. motd on its own prints the current one.
• To tell everyone something right now instead, use say: How to send a message to every player on your Terraria server.