How To Configure The Campaign On Your Barotrauma Server

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Nov 8, 2024

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Campaign configurations offer various settings such as initial funds, supplies, difficulty, and more. While these settings come with default values, server owners have the flexibility to customize them according to their preferences.


# Campaign Settings

Your campaign's settings can be selected on the lobby screen of your server.

  1. Join your server and select Campaign.

Barotrauma ingame highlighting the campaign gamemode

  1. Enter a Save Name and select a Preset.

Barotrauma ingame selecting a gamemode preset

  1. Make any required changes to the default settings.

Barotrauma ingame configuring gamemode settings

  1. Click Start.

# Configuring Campaign Defaults

It is also possible to configure the default settings for campaigns in the Barotrauma Campaign Settings section of your server's control panel.

  1. Access your control panel and Stop your server.
  2. Click Files.

Barotrauma server with the Files button highlighted

  1. Navigate to /Data/ and open campaignsettings.xml.

Barotrauma server files showing how to edit campaignsettings

  1. This file allows you to modify the default settings for three campaigns. Here's a list of available options along with brief descriptions:
OptionDescription
StartingBalanceAmountDefines the amount of starting money given to players.
ExtraEventManagerDifficultyThe frequency and difficulty of random events.
LevelDifficultyMultiplierDifficulty setting affects how the level is generated. On higher difficulty levels there are more environmental hazards, larger numbers of creatures, and more dangerous enemies.
presetnameThe name of the campaign settings preset.
TutorialEnabledWhether the tutorial is shown to players.
RadiationEnabledDisables or enables Jovian Radiation.
DifficultyThe difficulty of the preset as defined in the LevelDifficultyMultiplier option at the start of the file.
  1. Save and Start your server.

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Ruben B

Partnership Manager