Dont Starve Together Caves – Server Guide

Dont Starve Together Caves – Introduction

Inside Don’t Starve Together server hosting, you and your friends will appear in a world full of strange creatures, unknown dangers, and many surprises. As you collect resources and use them to build tools or a shelter, you may want to seek another place to explore, and Dont Starve Together caves are the place to go. While there are many areas to explore, one area you can’t explore unless you enable it is the soil and rock-filled area beneath your character, the underground.
 
Caves are an additional area deep below the upper world of Don’t Starve Together that you can adventure into with friends. You can activate caves on your server to allow them to generate. Once activated, an entirely new underground biome will open up with endless mysteries to discover. In this guide, we will show you how to enable caves for a brand new experience with friends on your Don’t Starve Together game server!

Requirements to Activate Dont Starve Together Caves

To create a Don’t Starve Together Server with caves enabled, you’ll need to ensure you have the following set up:

• Two Don’t Starve Together game servers. One server will be used as the playable game server while the other server will host your Dont Starve Together caves.
• To ensure these servers will run correctly, it’s important to ensure they are fully configured. You can follow our cluster token wiki guide to learn how to prepare your servers for the next steps!
• If you already have a world generated, you’ll need to generate a new world during this guide. We will show you how to do that.

Additional Preparations for Dont Starve Together Caves

Before beginning, it’s important to ensure that both servers are turned off. From there, you’ll be ready to start defining the servers and setting up Dont Starve Together caves.

1. First, to the left of both server webinterfaces under “Settings”, click “General”.
2. Then, in your General server settings, find the “Shard” option and tick that box for both servers.
3. For your main playable server, ensure the “Master” option is also ticked.
4. Next, for the “Master IP” option on both servers, set the main playable server’s IP address without the port. For example, if your IP was 1.1.1.1:12345, you would only put “1.1.1.1”.
5. After that, edit the “Master Port” setting, adding the port of the main playable server +3. For example, if your port was 12345, you’d put “12348”.
6. Thereafter, edit the “Cluster Key” and here, create a string of characters and ensure that the exact key is set for both servers. The longer the safer. For example, you could create “84954219485” and set that for both servers.
7. Additionally, you can edit the “Shard Name” option for both servers to set names. For example, you could set “Overworld” and “Caves”.
8. Lastly, press “Save changes”. You’re now ready to prepare the configuration files for both of your Dont Starve Together servers.

Creating the Don’t Starve Together Configuration

With the starting configuration ready, the next step is to set up a few additional configurations to finalize the link between your two Don’t Starve Together servers.
 
On your Don’t Starve Together servers, to the left of the webinterface, click on “File Browser”. Within the File Browser, go to the location “/dontstarve/storage/config/Cluster_1/master”. Inside this location, create a new file named “server.ini”.

Afterward, edit that file and add the following contents to that file:
 
[NETWORK]
server_port = 11000
 
[SHARD]
shard_enabled = true
is_master = true
Bind_ip = 127.0.0.1
Name = Overworld
Id = 1
 
[STEAM]
master_server_port = 11002
authentication_port = 11001
 

• “Server_port” will need to be set to that server’s port.

 

• “Shard_enabled” will ensure that the network is set up for sharing.
• “Is_master” should be set to “true” only if that is the main server. On your “Caves” server, this should be set to “false”.
• “Bind_ip” will need to be set to that server’s IP without the port.
• “Name” will need to be set to the names (example: Overworld and Caves) that you set up during preparations.
• “Id” will need to be set to a random ID that’s different between both servers. For example, “1” and “2”.

 

• “Master_server_port” will need to be set to that server’s port, +2.
• “Authentication_port” will need to be set to that server’s port, +1.

Once those changes have been made on both servers, press “Save changes” and start your Don’t Starve Together servers. You’re now ready to test the connection!

Testing Your Dont Starve Together Network

After that setup, your Dont Starve Together caves network will now be ready to test and connect to. To check this, you can view your server “Log Files” on the left-hand side of your server webinterface. If you see this message, you’ll know that the two servers are connected!
 
[00:09:31]: [Shard] Slave Cave(2) ready!
[00:09:31]: World 2 is now connected
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[1] <-> 2[1] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[2] <-> 2[2] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[3] <-> 2[3] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[4] <-> 2[4] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[5] <-> 2[5] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[6] <-> 2[6] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[7] <-> 2[7] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[8] <-> 2[8] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[9] <-> 2[9] (disabled)
[00:09:31]: Validating portal[10] <-> 2[10] (disabled)

Generating a Dont Starve Together Caves World

After verifying that the servers are properly connected, you can now generate the Caves World. To do this, head to the “File Browser” on your Caves server and go to the location “/dontstarve/storage/config/Cluster_1/Master”. Within this location, create a new file named “worldgenoverride.lua” and insert the following code:
 
return {
override_enabled = true,
preset = "DST_CAVE", -- "SURVIVAL_TOGETHER", "MOD_MISSING", "SURVIVAL_TOGETHER_CLASSIC", "SURVIVAL_DEFAULT_PLUS", "COMPLETE_DARKNESS", "DST_CAVE", "DST_CAVE_PLUS"
overrides = {},
}
 
Once that is done, press “Save changes”. Lastly, it’s time to generate a new world on your main Don’t Starve Together server. Join your main Don’t Starve Together server and, in-game, hold the “Tab”-key to view the “Server Status”. From there, press the three dots “…” in the upper left corner and click “Regenerate World”. Alternatively, as a Don’t Starve Together admin you can simply type the command “c_regenerateworld()” and it’ll generate a new world:

 
With that done, you’ll now have a new overworld for your main server, linked to a Dont Starve Together caves server. The next time you jump into a sinkhole, you’ll wind up in the mystical new underground cave world!

Explore with Friends on Don’t Starve

With caves activated for you and your friends, you’re now ready to discover an entirely new land of resources, terrain, and creatures. While spelunking, you’ll come across depths worm attacks and dangerous earthquakes. That’s not including the 10 other new creatures that’ll await in the deep. See what is in store in the underground when you add caves to your own Don’t Starve Together game server today!

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