Windrose Knowledge Base
Complete guides for your WDC GameGrid Windrose server. Learn how to set up your server, connect players, enable Windrose Plus for a live map and admin console, configure gameplay settings, and troubleshoot common issues.
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Setup and Configuration
Getting Started with Your Windrose Server
Create, configure, and start your Windrose dedicated server on GameGrid. Learn how the provisioning process works and how to get online in minutes.
How to Connect to Your Windrose Server
Where to find your Windrose server address and invite code, which of the two your server is using, and what to do when a player cannot get in.
Windrose Server Settings Reference
Every Windrose setting the GameGrid Settings tab shows: what it does, its default, its range, and which file it is written into.
Windrose ServerDescription.json Config Guide
What is actually inside R5/ServerDescription.json, which fields GameGrid owns, which you can safely change, and why the Settings tab is the better way.
Windrose Port Configuration
Which ports a Windrose server uses on GameGrid, which of them face the internet, and why none of them are yours to change.
Administration
How to Become Admin on Your Windrose Server
Windrose has no admin system of its own. Here is what admin access on a GameGrid Windrose server actually consists of, and how to set it up.
Windrose Admin Commands Reference
Every Windrose Plus console command, grouped by what it is for, including the ones that report success and change nothing, and which of them can be put on a schedule.
Windrose Command Manager
Schedule Windrose Plus commands to run on their own - hourly status records, entity and performance snapshots, and timed movement events for everyone online - plus what Windrose cannot do on a schedule, and why.
Windrose Plus
Windrose Plus Guide - One-Click Enable on GameGrid
What Windrose Plus is, how to switch it on from the panel, what you get, how it unlocks the shop and live item delivery, and how GameGrid keeps it updated and repaired.
Windrose Plus Live Map (Sea Chart) Guide
How the Windrose Plus Sea Chart and the panel Live Map work, how to build the terrain, what each map status means, how to tune update rates, and the current limit on sharing.
Windrose Plus Gameplay Multipliers Guide
Adjust loot, XP, craft efficiency, cooking speed, and harvest yield multipliers on your Windrose server with Windrose Plus.
Windrose Plus Player Stats Configuration
Customize base player health, stamina, posture, armor, carry weight, and corruption resistance on your Windrose server.
Windrose Plus RCON Dashboard Guide
How to open the Windrose Plus web dashboard, what its two tabs contain, and the HTTP API behind them.
Windrose Plus Settings Catalog
Full reference for all Windrose Plus settings sections: multipliers, RCON, query, admin, POI scan, live map, player stats, co-op scaling, and more.
Windrose Plus Server Query & Status API
What the Windrose Plus "Server Query" module actually publishes, where to read it, and why it does not put your server in the Steam server browser.
Windrose Plus Troubleshooting Guide
Dashboard will not open, settings not applying, a blank map, a mismatch between the toggle and the files, shop purchases not arriving, and what to do after a Windrose update.
Backups and Worlds
Windrose Backup and Restore Guide
What a Windrose backup contains, how to take one, how to restore it, and the two things it deliberately leaves out.
Windrose Save File Location
Where Windrose keeps worlds, configuration and logs on your GameGrid server, and which of those a backup covers.
How to Reset Your Windrose World
Two supported ways to start a fresh Windrose world — Delete Savegames on the Admin tab, or a new World Island ID — and exactly what each one keeps.
Performance
Multiplayer
Troubleshooting
Fixing Windrose Connection Issues
Troubleshoot and fix common Windrose connection problems: timeouts, version mismatches, relay errors, and invite code issues.
Windrose Server Won't Start - Troubleshooting
Fix common issues that prevent your Windrose dedicated server from starting: corrupted config, missing files, and port conflicts.
Fixing Windrose Version Mismatch Errors
Resolve version mismatch errors when players cannot connect to your Windrose server after an update.
Updating Your Windrose Server
How Windrose server updates work on GameGrid: the Admin tab, the auto-update switch, and why restarting does not update anything.
FAQ
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