How to use COMMANDS in Terraria

[Jraulin]

Hello! I am eager to use commands in Terraria, but I have no idea how. Can you tell me?

[Jraulin]

On YouTube, I see Pedguin using summon and butcher commands.

[Jraulin]

Oh. What's a T-Shock? I'm new to this stuff.

[windfisch]

That's a modified dedicated server. Just google TShock. It needs to be installed, you need to connect to the server on localhost, you need to register as super user ingame and can then use the console commands listed in the TShock documentary.

[Jraulin]

Thanks!

is this threatening my characters files in any way?

[windfisch]

Originally posted by jojogoldbox:

Thanks!

is this threatening my characters files in any way?

No, but you should always keep backups when modifying anyways.
Regulary copy your world and characters folder (documents/my games/terraria/*) to some safe location.

[Jraulin]

Can it be downloaded on Linux / Ubuntu?

[windfisch]

I'm not sure, the game runs too bad on my linux system. But i think the server will be started in wine and so will the patched files.

edit:

Q: Can I run the server in Linux?
A: As of version 3.2.8.0831, TShock can run in Mono, although with limited success.
On Debian 8 and derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.), TShock requires the following packages as dependencies:
mono-runtime libmysql6.4-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil
Please note that the mysql connector (libmysql6.4-cil) is required to be installed, even if you are using the SQLite backend.
If TShock starts but crashes due to missing dependencies, it may create a zero-length config.json file. Once the dependencies are resolved, delete the file to force the server to regenerate this file, or the server will crash on configuration file load.

[Jraulin]

Great! Thanks for the help! I'll download it ASAP