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Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
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Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
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Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
No independent plugin compatibility test is documented for this announcement. Check the affected plugins in the update center before changing game versions.
Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
No independent plugin compatibility test is documented for this announcement. Check the affected plugins in the update center before changing game versions.
Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
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Necesse Version 1.0 releases in 24 hours at 7PM CEST / 1PM EDT!
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Necesse Version 1.0 release in 1 week on October 16th - 7PM CEST / 1PM EDT
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Effects on plugins
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Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
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Necesse 1.0: The systems behind seamless world generation
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Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
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Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
No independent plugin compatibility test is documented for this announcement. Check the affected plugins in the update center before changing game versions.
Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
No independent plugin compatibility test is documented for this announcement. Check the affected plugins in the update center before changing game versions.
Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
No independent plugin compatibility test is documented for this announcement. Check the affected plugins in the update center before changing game versions.
Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
No independent plugin compatibility test is documented for this announcement. Check the affected plugins in the update center before changing game versions.
Announcement from the official source. The source describes the changes; your server installation status is shown separately in the update center.
Effects on plugins
No independent plugin compatibility test is documented for this announcement. Check the affected plugins in the update center before changing game versions.
The image shows the interface on its capture date; earlier versions may differ.
Excerpt of the current interface with sample values. Values and prerequisites illustrate the controls; available tools depend on server software, plugins and permissions. · Captured on 2026-10-08Excerpt of the current interface with sample values. Values and prerequisites illustrate the controls; available tools depend on server software, plugins and permissions. · Captured on 2026-10-08
What the settings do
These values come from our guided editors. Defaults are the editor starting values; they do not show the contents of a customer server.
Pause world when empty
Stops world time, crops, NPC work and events while nobody is connected.
Setting
pauseWhenEmpty
Default
true
Delegate more work to clients
May make movement smoother but trusts clients more. Off keeps stricter server validation.
Setting
giveClientsPower
Default
true
Client timeout (seconds)
Setting
maxClientLatencySeconds
Default
30
Range / options
5 – 300
Unload levels after (seconds)
How long an abandoned level remains in memory. Very high values increase memory use.
Setting
unloadLevelsCooldown
Default
30
Range / options
5 – 3600
Dropped-item lifetime (minutes)
0 means indefinitely. A positive value prevents abandoned items from consuming resources forever.
Setting
droppedItemsLifeMinutes
Default
0
Range / options
0 – 10080
Unload unattended settlements
Setting
unloadSettlements
Default
false
Maximum settlements per player
-1 means unlimited.
Setting
maxSettlementsPerPlayer
Default
-1
Range / options
-1 – 100
Maximum settlers per settlement
-1 means unlimited.
Setting
maxSettlersPerSettlement
Default
-1
Range / options
-1 – 250
Settler job search range (tiles)
Larger ranges can increase settlement CPU load.
Setting
jobSearchRange
Default
100
Range / options
10 – 500
Write session logs
Disabling reduces disk writes but makes later troubleshooting harder.
Setting
logging
Default
true
Message of the day
Text, accented characters and emoji are preserved. Commas, quotes, backslashes and other special characters are safely escaped in the config file. The preview shows this escaping; the game displays your original text.
Setting
MOTD
Default
Save Name
World filename: 1–20 characters, using only A–Z, a–z, 0–9, hyphen and underscore. Another name loads or creates another world.
Setting
SAVE_NAME
Default
Save1
When it takes effect
Takes effect after saving and restarting the server.
Player slots
Maximum number of players connected at the same time. This value comes from your booked server and is read-only here.
Setting
SERVER_SLOTS
Default
10
Range / options
… – 99
When it takes effect
Takes effect after saving and restarting the server.
Steam Auto Update
Enable or disable auto-update on startup. 0 to disable and 1 to enable.
Setting
AUTO_UPDATE
Default
1
When it takes effect
Takes effect after saving and restarting the server.
Workshop mod IDs
Numeric Steam Workshop IDs, separated by commas. Mods are loaded on the next start. Leave empty for no Workshop mods.
Setting
MOD_IDS
Default
When it takes effect
Takes effect after saving and restarting the server.
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