Your Hytale server keeps its worlds in universe/worlds, one folder per world. You can upload a world from your own game, or one you downloaded.
Finding a world from your own game
Your single-player worlds are on your computer, in Hytale's Saves folder:
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\Hytale\UserData\Saves - macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/Hytale/UserData/Saves - Linux:
~/.local/share/Hytale/UserData/Saves
Each save has a universe/worlds folder inside it with its world folders (usually one named default). That world folder, the one with a config.json in it, is what you upload.
Uploading it
- Sign in to the control panel at panel.chicagoservers.co and open your Hytale server.
- Stop the server, then make a backup on the Backups tab (see How do I backup my server?).
- Open the Files tab and go to
universe/worlds. - Drag the world folder from your computer onto the page. For a big world, you can zip it first, upload the
.zip, then right-click it and choose Extract here. Make sure the files end up directly inuniverse/worlds/YourWorld, not in a folder inside another folder. - If a folder with the same name is already there (such as
default), give yours a different name, or rename or delete the old one first. - Open the Configs tab, choose Server settings (config.json) and set World players join to your world's folder name, exactly, with the same capital letters. Click Save.
- Start the server and join.
Players' inventories and positions belong to the server, not the world, so players start fresh on an uploaded world. Your builds and terrain come with it.
For big uploads an SFTP program is faster: see How to connect to your server's SFTP.
Starting over with a new world
Stop the server, make a backup, and on the Files tab rename (or delete) the universe folder. Hytale makes a new one at the next start. This also resets every player's inventory. To go back, stop the server and rename the old folder back to universe.
Need help? Open a support ticket and we'll take a look.