Terraria Journey mode on a server and its powers

A Journey world is Terraria’s creative mode. On a server, you decide who may use its powers, such as freezing time or godmode. There are 15 settings, one per power. Each is Nobody, Nobody (host only) or Every player.

What you need first

The server must play a world made in Journey mode. The mode is fixed when a world is made. See the four difficulty modes. To make one, open the World page, choose Journey in Difficulty and choose Make this world.

In the game, a Journey world only accepts Journey characters. Players need a Journey character to play on it.

The power settings only matter on a Journey world. Each one says so: “Journey worlds only.”

Set the powers

Open the Config Editor.
Open the file Server settings.
Find the group Journey powers, if the file shows it.
For each power, choose who may use it.
Save, then restart the server. A restart drops everyone who is on, so use Message everyone on the Players page first.

The game reads these settings when it starts, so a change needs a restart.

By hand

Open serverconfig.txt in Files and add a line for each power you want, then restart the server. The value is 0 for Nobody, 1 for host only and 2 for every player. For example:

journeypermission_time_setfrozen=2
journeypermission_godmode=0

The keys are journeypermission_time_setfrozen, journeypermission_time_setdawn, journeypermission_time_setnoon, journeypermission_time_setdusk, journeypermission_time_setmidnight, journeypermission_time_setspeed, journeypermission_godmode, journeypermission_wind_setstrength, journeypermission_wind_setfrozen, journeypermission_rain_setstrength, journeypermission_rain_setfrozen, journeypermission_increaseplacementrange, journeypermission_setdifficulty, journeypermission_biomespread_setfrozen and journeypermission_setspawnrate. The panel leaves lines it does not own alone. Once the lines are in the file, the group shows in the Config Editor.

The three values

Nobody. The power is locked for everyone.
Every player. Anyone on the server can use it.
Nobody (host only). This is the panel’s name for the game’s setting “can only be changed by host”.

Not checked on 1.4.5.8 as of 13 November 2026: who counts as the host on a server that nobody runs from a game window. If you need a power to work, use Every player. If you need it off, use Nobody.

The 15 powers

Freeze time
Set time to dawn
Set time to noon
Set time to dusk
Set time to midnight
Time speed
Godmode
Wind strength
Freeze wind
Rain strength
Freeze rain
Placement range
Enemy difficulty
Freeze biome spread
Enemy spawn rate

If it does not work

A player cannot use a power. Check that the world is a Journey world: its row on the World page shows Journey. Then check the setting is Every player and that the server was restarted after the change.
The group is not there. Open the file called Server settings, not TShock. If it is still missing, the server’s serverconfig.txt has no journeypermission_ lines: add them in Files (see “By hand”).
A player cannot play on the world. The game only lets Journey characters into a Journey world. They need a Journey character.

More about the game: Terraria servers.

Sources: terraria.wiki.gg: Server, terraria.wiki.gg: Journey Mode

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