How to Start a Fresh World on Your Eco Server

Sometimes the meteor has landed, the economy has run its course, or you want a bigger world. Eco keeps the whole world in one folder, so a fresh start is deleting that folder while the server is stopped.

1Back Up First

• Log in to your game panel and click your Eco server.
• take a manual backup if there is any chance you want the old world back. A deleted world cannot be recovered without one.

2Stop the Server

• On the Console page press Stop and wait until the status reads offline.

3Delete the Storage Folder

• Open Files in the left menu.
• Delete the Storage folder. It holds the world, every player's property and skills, the laws and the economy.
• To keep a copy on the server instead, rename it, for example to Storage-old.

4Change the World Settings and Start

• This is the moment to change the world size, the meteor or the difficulty in the Configs folder.
• Press Start. Eco generates a new world, which takes several minutes; the console shows the progress.

Good to Know

• Configs stay. The Configs folder is not part of the world, so your server name, admins and difficulty survive the reset.
• Mods stay too. Everything in Mods is kept and loads into the new world.
• Players keep their accounts but start with nothing: no skills, no property, no currency.
• Announce it. Eco cannot show a message from the console, so tell the community in advance where you normally talk to them.

Finished

The server runs a new world. Set the admins again if you changed the Users file, and the civilisation can start over.