Settings

Finding your way

Open Settings from the top left corner of the main page. The list on the left has four sections:

The Server groups edit the server's worldserver.conf (only the realm name lives in the login database); the Launcher group edits lonelyice.ini next to LonelyIce.exe. You do not have to open those files yourself.

Each setting shows its name, a coloured badge that says when a change takes effect, and a hint where one helps. With config keys ticked (the default), the name of the key in the config file is shown under each setting, handy when a guide or forum post mentions a key.

Saving and when changes apply

Changed settings are highlighted, and the group shows how many changes it holds. Nothing is written until you press Save at the bottom; the line next to it says "Changed: 3" or "No changes".

The badge on each setting tells you when it takes effect:

With the server stopped, everything you save is used on the next start.

Realm

Rates

Rates are multipliers: 1 is the normal game, 2 doubles it.

Profession skill gain is not a multiplier like the others: it is how many skill points a successful craft gives.

The Preset buttons above the list set every rate except profession skill gain at once: Classic ×1, Faster ×2 or Casual ×5. You still press Save. The wizard asked the same question on the first run (Faster ×2 was preselected); its choice also set a few rates that are not listed here, such as pet experience, rest outside the game and the other item qualities.

Difficulty

These help when you play with a small group of bots.

Network and resources

All of these except the save interval need a restart.

Playing in your local network

LonelyIce is set up for one computer, but another computer in the same local network (at home, the same router) can join your server:

1. Turn This computer only off and press Save (Save and restart while the server runs). On its next start the server gives the realm this computer's address in the local network, for example 192.168.1.20; the Console tab shows it in the line "Realm address …". The game on this computer keeps using 127.0.0.1.
2. Let the Login port and the World port (3724 and 8085 unless you changed them) through the firewall of this computer. LonelyIce does not change the firewall.
3. Create an account for the other player on the Accounts tab (Accounts and GM access).
4. On the other computer, with its own 3.3.5a client, set the realmlist to this computer's address: set realmlist 192.168.1.20 in realmlist.wtf (with :<port> added when you changed the login port).

Only computers in the same local network can join this way. If the server finds no local network address, the log says "No address in the local network found; the realm stays at 127.0.0.1". When this computer has several network connections and the realm gets the wrong address, set the environment variable LONELYICE_REALM_ADDRESS to the right one before starting LonelyIce; the server then gives the realm that address instead (Environment variables).

Plugin settings

Every installed plugin that has settings gets its own group under Plugins. The gear button next to a plugin on the Plugins page opens its group directly. Plugin settings work like the others, with the same badges; they are saved to the plugin's own config file in the modules folder next to worldserver.conf, which is created from the plugin's defaults the first time you save. Keys you did not change keep the plugin's default, and options the group does not show can still be set in that file.

What each plugin offers is described in its own guide.

Storage

Storage decides where the server keeps its databases (Hard drive (SQLite) or a database server that a storage plugin adds) and whether the game data is unpacked to disk (Disk cache, about 0.5 GB, a little faster) or read straight from your game client.

1. Stop the server.
2. Pick a location or change Disk cache. The launcher checks the new place and tells you what it found, for example "The databases are in place." or "No databases there yet: they will be created."
3. Press Apply. When nothing is missing, the change is made at once; otherwise the wizard opens, shows what it will do, and does it: Create the databases (then it also asks for Your account in the new databases), Bring the databases up to date when they exist but a newer LonelyIce brought database updates not applied yet, Unpack the game data (disk cache) or Remove the disk cache. Undo returns the form to the storage in use.

Details: MySQL storage and Server game data.

Launcher

These are LonelyIce's own options and take effect at once.

Backups are described in Backups and restoring.

About

About shows the LonelyIce version (the source revision and its date), the server core, the licenses, and the folders in use: Program folder, Server data, Server config and Plugins folder.