Previously, players would create what’s now referred to as a “Standard World”.

When the owner of a world goes offline, the world goes offline with them.

It’s a little of the functionality of a dedicated server, then, but with player-hosted servers.

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(Actual dedicated servers are seeminglystill being considered.)

Thepublic test patch notessay that previously created Standard Worlds can be converted into Shared Worlds.

If you’re going to use it at this stage, backup your saves.

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Or you could wait for it to leave testing.

Grounded is due to his 1.0 onSeptember 27th.