Tshock is starting as a vanilla server?

[crazygmr101]

So.. here's an.. odd question. I followed the instructions for downloading TShock found here, but, when I start the server with mono TerrariaServer.exe is just.. looks like a vanilla Terraria server.

I even tee'ed it to a file to force console to not clear, so I didn't miss anything, and yea, it just looks to be vanilla.

(IP is my public-facing proxy, i didn't forget to censor :p)

EDIT - The above post was for 4.5.1, 4.5.0.1 seems to work fine.

[hakusaro]

This is because TShock is a plugin for Terraria Server API. We just so happen to distribute TSAPI with TShock. The TerrariaAPI version line indicates that you're on TSAPI 2.1.0.0 for Terraria protocol 1.4.2.1 (which is internally called release 236), on Open Terraria API version 1.4.2.1 (so, that's TSAPI on OTAPI).

In ServerPlugins you need to have a TShockAPI.dll file, which is actually TShock. While we'd love to rename that so it doesn't include API, we can't without breaking out extremely simple upgrade instructions, which involve just copying the new release onto the old release. For posterity, the API in TShockAPI refers to the fact that this is the version of TShock built for TSAPI.

So, tl;dr: your issue is solved, but in the future, if you don't see TShock initializing, check ServerPlugins for TShockAPI.dll.