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Kill a player on a Terraria server from the panel

Use Kill in the player's row menu to end a character at once. What they drop depends on the world's difficulty and their character. Needs TShock or tModLoader.

Updated , checked on Terraria 1.4.5.8

Open the Players page, find the player under On now, open the row menu and choose Kill. The player dies at once. What they drop depends on the world’s difficulty and on their character. Kill needs TShock or tModLoader, a player who is on the server, and a role that allows game actions. See Terraria servers.

Before you start

Kill is a game action done by the panel’s tools. The tools run inside TShock and tModLoader. On Vanilla there are no tools, so Kill is not in the menu. To change the program, see change the server software.

The server also has to have someone on it. An empty Terraria server is paused, so the panel’s tools wait for a player.

Kill a player

  1. Open the Players page.
  2. Under On now, find the player.
  3. Open the menu named What to do with (name). It is the three dots at the end of the row.
  4. Choose Kill. It is red, between Call a boss and Kick.
  5. The box Kill (name)? says “(name) dies at once. What they drop depends on the world’s difficulty and their character.” Choose Kill.
The Kill dialog asking to kill a player, with its note about what they drop

The change is immediate. The Activity tab under Settings records it.

What the player drops

These are the game’s own rules for a death. The Terraria Wiki lists them. Not checked on 1.4.5.8 as of 13 November 2026: that the panel’s Kill is an ordinary death with these drops, on a real player’s character.

  • Classic (softcore) character. Drops part of each stack of coins they carry: half in a Classic world, three quarters in Expert, all in Master. Coins in a piggy bank, safe or other storage are not touched.
  • Mediumcore character. Drops every item they carry, coins and ammo too.
  • Hardcore character. Drops every item they carry, and the character is deleted for good.

If it does not work

  • There is no Kill in the menu. The server runs Vanilla, or your role does not allow game actions. Ask the owner of the server.
  • The panel says the server is not running. Start it first.
  • The panel says nobody is on the server. The world is paused and the game does nothing until someone joins.
  • The panel says to choose a player who is on the server. The player left. Open the page again and pick someone under On now.
  • The panel says the panel’s tools are not running yet. They load when the server starts. Restart the server once.
  • You only wanted to restore health. Use heal a player instead. Kill cannot be undone.

Sources: terraria.wiki.gg: Death

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