BACK UP YOUR WORLDS BEFORE RUNNING THIS PRE-RELEASE. READ THE ENTIRE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW.
BACK UP YOUR WORLDS BEFORE RUNNING THIS PRE-RELEASE. READ THE ENTIRE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW.
BACK UP YOUR WORLDS BEFORE RUNNING THIS PRE-RELEASE. READ THE ENTIRE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW.
BACK UP YOUR WORLDS BEFORE RUNNING THIS PRE-RELEASE. READ THE ENTIRE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW.
This pre-release has, under rare circumstances, completely deleted worlds on startup. If running in mono, run with the following command for bug reporting purposes. If you can reproduce world deletion or world corruption or infinite falling with no world at all please contact us ASAP. If you don't run with this command, we won't be able to figure out what went wrong.
mono --debug --trace=N:nothing TerrariaServer.exe
This is TShock 4.3.21 for Terraria 1.3.4.4 on OTAPI 2.0.0.9 with compatibility for the Terraria Server API version 1.26.
That's a mouthful. We're referring to all releases of TShock on OTAPI as "TShock Mintaka."
This is a pre-release build. On a technical level, this is TShock for Terraria with the Terraria Server API's hooking system and event broadcast system on top of the Open Terraria API. This is a step towards the future that Orion brings, which is why it's called Mintaka, one of the stars in Orion's belt.
Effectively, this is a stock Terraria server with a lot of magic sauce on the side. The Open Terraria API is a re-engineering effort that's been developed in parallel with TShock for the longest time. The hooks and modifications that we used to do in the Terraria Server API have been coalesced into modifications that, when run with the Open Terraria API bootstrapper, create a version of Terraria that can load TShock and other TSAPI plugins without actually upgrading TSAPI to the latest version.
This was primarily the work of Death (fka. DeathCradle), who did quite a lot of effort to get the API working on OTAPI. Enerdy painstakingly helped get Mintaka working.
Future goals:
- Get Mintaka building on Linux.
What to test:
- Proper functionality of TShock, and other Terraria Server API plugins on Mintaka.