Terraria game worlds used by a community of friends.
- Download & install Git: https://git-scm.com/downloads You may continue up to and including step 4 while you wait for step 1 to finish.
- Sign-up for Github if you do not have one already: https://github.com/
- Message me on Steam with your Github username: http://steamcommunity.com/id/moronicacid/
- Open Command Prompt.
- Type 'git config --global user.email "<your email>"'.
- Type 'git config --global user.name "<your IRL name>"'.
- Type "cd C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds". This will bring you to the correct directory.
- Type "git init". This initializes a repository locally in your Worlds directory, do not delete the .git directory.
- Type "git remote add origin https://github.com/jtmayer/Worlds.git".
- You may want to delete/backup worlds with the same file name as the one in this repository, then type "git pull origin master". This is the command that actually fetches the files.
- Close Terraria, if it is already open.
- Open Command Prompt.
- Type "cd C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds".
- Type "git pull origin master", if your local world is out-of-date. If you just performed the setup above, please ignore this step.
- Open Terraria.
- Select "Multiplayer" from the main menu, then "Host & Play".
- Select the desired world and host.
- Quit the world. You should not be hosting a game while performing the following steps.
- Open Command Prompt.
- Type "cd C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds".
- Type 'git commit -a -m "<message>"' Where <message> contains a condensed description of changes made to the world.
- Type "git push origin master".
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