Creating A Server

If and when a Player becomes a Supporter, they will immediately have the option to Create their own Server.

This gives players the freedom to enjoy A Township Tale alone or with friends in their own world, or even open up their server to everyone.

Server Creation
To Create your Server, start by launching up the game and loading into the Menu. From here, simply pull the lever that displays "Create Server".

This server will then show up in the "Your Servers" section of the Server Menu. You can then proceed to join.

Controlling Your Server
Naturally, having full control over your Server is important for any administrator. Luckily, the Server Dashboard is accessible here: http://dashboard.townshiptale.com/

To use the Dashboard, follow these instructions:


 * When presented with the Dashboard, you must log in using your Alta Account, (the same one you use for logging into the Launcher).


 * Next, you must Connect to your Server through the Dashboard:



The Console
The Console allows server administrators full control over their game world. They can spawn items, modify skills, change server settings and even change stats such as Speed and Health.

For a full tutorial on how to use the Console through the Dashboard, read this page: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/ATT-Dashboard-A-Quick-Guide-J75nQNM9eSHfJM9EfuxwB

Alternative Server Control Systems
Shortly after the creation of the Dashboard, plenty of other methods of controlling your server were created, the most popular being the Prefabulator, courtesy of Twidge.

The Prefabulator is much more friendly for newer server administrators as it can perform most tasks at the click of button, instead of typing out long commands.

You can download the Prefabulator here: https://github.com/edencomputing/attprefabulator

Inviting Friends
Inviting your friends is thankfully very simple with your Server! All this is done in the launcher when you select your Server.

Some Advice
The Dashboard and Private Server initiative as a whole, at the time of writing this, is very new. Thus, it is important to adhere to some advice if you want the best for your server:

Don't leave a console connected when you are done
If you’re leaving your PC, it’s best to disconnect it unless there’s a reason to keep it connected. There’s a tiny bit of overhead on the server just to keep the connection alive, as well as any expense from the subscriptions.

Think about what you're doing
Spawning ‘unofficial’ items

Yes… There are a couple things that you can spawn that aren’t usually in the game. Whether they’re something we made as a joke, for testing, or simply didn’t cut it, there’s a pretty hefty chance they’re broken or buggy. They may not work as you expect, and we don’t officially support them. If you find one that really breaks things, let us know ASAP, and we’ll disable spawn support for that item.

Using commands you don’t know…

There’s a lot of commands in there. I don’t even know what half of them do. There’s even a module named ‘wacky’ which is explicitly full of risky commands. Proceed with caution. You can always ask around if you want more information.

Some commands are completely disabled for non-devs, as they’re for development-only reasons. Although these are still shown at this stage, calling them will do nothing.