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How to use your Existing World with your Don't Starve Together Server

Locate Your Save Files

  1. Launch Don’t Starve Together
  2. When on the Main Menu click the Data button in the lower left. It has a folder icon
  3. This will have opened Windows Explorer and you will see a bunch of folders
  4. Find the folders labeled Cluster_# where # is a number
  5. If you have multiple clusters, open the folder and use a text editor to open the cluster.ini
  6. Find the cluster_name line to find the world you want to upload
  7. Once you have identified the world, zip the all the files inside the Cluster_# folder using a compression tool like 7zip or winrar

Upload to the Server

  1. Go to the AleForge Panel
  2. Open the File Manager
  3. Navigate to DoNotStarveTogether/config/server
  4. Delete all files present
  5. Click and drag your .zip file to the panel web page and it will upload your world. For files larger than 1 GB please use SFTP
  6. Right click your uploaded .zip file. You should see the following folders and files (Caves, Master, cluster.ini)
  7. Add your cluster token to the server

Your server will now start with your uploaded world!