With the right settings, you can turn your Mindustry game server into exactly the kind of server you envision for your community: with a custom name, welcome message, game mode, map, and autosaves. In this guide, we’ll show you where to configure everything, which values are available, and how to add custom maps and mods to your server.
You’ll find your server’s most important settings in the Configuration tab under Startup Parameters. They’re applied every time your server starts. After you save, ZapX will offer to restart the server so your changes take effect.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Server Name | Your server’s name in the game’s server list |
| Server Desc | Description shown below the server name (leave blank for none) |
| Server Motd | Welcome message players see when they connect (leave blank for none) |
| Map Name | Map for a new game, e.g. Fortress (leave blank for a random map) |
| Game Mode | Game mode for a new game: survival, sandbox, attack, or pvp |
| Load Latest Save | 1 = load the latest save when the server starts, 0 = always start a new game |
| Autosave Interval | Time between autosaves in seconds (default 300, 0 disables autosaves) |
| Autosave Amount | Number of autosaves to keep (default 10); older saves are replaced |
| Auto Pause | 1 = pause the game when no one is online |
| Enable Votekick | 1 = allow players to kick other players by vote |
| Extra Start Commands | Additional server commands to run at startup, separated by commas |
| Java Opts | Additional Java options; usually, leave this blank |
Mindustry separates startup commands with commas. Therefore, commas in Server Name, Server Desc, and Server Motd are automatically replaced with spaces.
Map Name and Game Mode only apply when the server starts a new game. As long as Load Latest Save is set to 1 and a save exists, your server will continue loading the latest save each time it starts—even after a restart, because your server automatically saves to the shutdown slot when it stops.
To start a new round with a different map or game mode, you have two options:
- Set Load Latest Save to
0and restart the server. It will then start a new game using Map Name and Game Mode. Your existing saves will be kept. - Or switch directly in the Console:
stopends the current game, andhost <Karte> <Modus>starts a new one, e.g.host Fortress survival.
If you want a mode other than survival, be sure to specify a Map Name as well. Otherwise, the server will start on a random Survival map.
To see which maps are available, run maps all in the Console. For pvp, maps such as Veins, Glacier, and Passage are good choices. In the console, you can replace spaces in map names with underscores, e.g. host Meine_Karte survival for the map “Meine Karte.”
Use Extra Start Commands to automatically run any server commands at startup. Separate multiple commands with commas. For example, this command limits the number of players and hides connection messages:
playerlimit 20, config showConnectMessages false
Your server applies the name, description, welcome message, port, and autosave settings from the startup parameters every time it starts. So always change these values through Startup Parameters, not with the config command in the console. Otherwise, they’ll be reset the next time the server restarts.
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