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How to Pause your Necesse Server when no Players are Online

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You might find it useful to automatically pause progress in your Necesse Server when no players on are online. For example, this would prevent any NPCs from perishing from unexpected mobs when no players are online!

Enable Automatic Pausing

There are two ways in which you can enable automatic pausing when no players are online on your Necesse server.

Nodecraft Server Control Panel

  1. Login to your Nodecraft Dashboard

  2. Click on Panel with the gear icon located in the bottom right of your Renown server.

  3. Go to your Game Settings tab on the left-hand side of the control panel.

  4. Enter the Worlds tab at the top of the page, and ensure the "Pause when Empty" option is enabled.

    Necesse Pause when Empty configuration

  5. Save and restart your server.

Editing Files

  1. Login to your Nodecraft Dashboard

  2. Click on Panel with the gear icon located in the bottom right of your Necesse server.

  3. Go to File Manager/Files in the left-hand side of the control panel.

  4. Navigate to the server.ini in /data/cfg.

  5. Enable or disable automatic pausing for your server by setting the pauseWhenEmpty field to true or false.

    Necesse server.cfg pause when empty configuration

  6. Save, and then Restart the server.

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