Beginner with dedicated servers , need help customising world

[Dingus_Khan]

hello. iam trying to make a world with some oceans/large lakes and have it run on the dedicated server, so my friends can play on it together with me 

is there somewhere i can type or copy over world settings.

just something like "landcover 50%"

 

[Zane Mordien]

Are you asking about what settings to use for a world with oceans or what commands to use to set them?

There are the settings I have, but it still may not be perfect for a world with oceans. 

 "landcover": "0.7",
  "oceanscale": "1.25", (Anything more than this and I just had nothing but islands)
  "upheavelCommonness": "0",
   "landformScale": "1.2",

[Dingus_Khan]

On 3/31/2025 at 10:46 PM, Zane Mordien said:

Are you asking about what settings to use for a world with oceans or what commands to use to set them?

There are the settings I have, but it still may not be perfect for a world with oceans. 

 "landcover": "0.7",
  "oceanscale": "1.25", (Anything more than this and I just had nothing but islands)
  "upheavelCommonness": "0",
   "landformScale": "1.2",

cool settings!(will use) , but how do i put them onto the server. like in single player there's the customise button and you can adjust it but how to do on the dedicated server ?

im sorry if the answer is obvious but im not very good with the terminal thing that the server uses. 

[Zane Mordien]

Several options that I know:

 

1. You can edit the server configuration file before the world is generated.  You can set the seed and any other configuration that you can do in the single player world set up. Its pretty obvious when you open the text file. Just ask on the forums or discord what some of the settings mean if in doubt. Some of the text doesn't exactly match the single player configuration wording.

 

2. Start a single player world and then load that on the server. This is the easier way if you have the option. 

 

3. If you can't do 1 or 2 then load into the world and set the world configuration commands manually and then regen the chunks that are already loaded. I can give better details on this when I'm sitting in front of my computer. 

 

There may be other ways that someone else can post but these are the ways I know.