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How to Upload an Existing Icarus Prospect to your Server
You may have home hosted an Icarus Prospect or played a single-player prospect in the past, but now you want to resume that same Prospect on your new dedicated Icarus server. Fortunately, dedicated Icarus servers support the usage of previously played Prospect files. --- Uploading a Prospect to your Server After locating your local Prospect file, you will need to upload it to the proper directory in your server's FTP. 1. Access your control panel and Stop your server. 2. Navigate to Files. 3. Navigate to . 3. Upload your Prospect file to . After you successfully locate and upload your local Icarus Prospect to your new Icarus server, you can follow this guide to change your active Prospect to it. --- To learn more about Icarus server hosting, you can browse our library of Knowledgebase articles here.
How to Create/Load a Prospect on your Icarus Server
If your Icarus server is not actively running a Prospect, you may need to create a new Prospect or load a previous one. Prospects are game sessions that contain several activities for players to complete and participate in. These prospects can range anywhere from a mission with a set of objectives to complete to building an outpost without the fear of enemies or even participating in open-world activities such as world bosses. ---- Create a New Prospect After connecting to your server, you will find yourself in the server lobby with the buttons New and Load available to you. 1. Connect to your Icarus server by following this guide. 2. Hover your cursor over New, and follow the prompts. 3. Select your desired mission or game mode. Congratulations, your server will now be loading a new Prospect. --- Load a Previous Prospect To load a previous Prospect, you will need to select it in the server lobby. 1. Connect to your Icarus server by following this guide. 2. Click Load, and select your desired Prospect. After completing these steps, your Icarus server will load your selected Prospect. To learn more about Icarus server hosting, you can browse our library of Knowledgebase articles here.
How to Change the Prospect on your Icarus Server
After playing your Icarus server, you may decide that you'd like to start a new Prospect or return to a previously played Prospect. Fortunately, you can change your current Prospect by adjusting some settings in the file. ::ProseNote{title="Note" description="Changing your active Icarus Prospect requires Admin Permissions. If you have not yet given yourself Admin Permissions, please follow this guide." appearance="default"} :: --- Changing to a Previous Prospect Although by default anyone can create a new prospect or load a new prospect, it requires Admin Permissions to unload a Prospect in progress. 1. In-game, open chat by pressing the Enter key. 2. Enter the command . After sending this command, you may need to reconnect. 3. In the lobby, click Load. 4. Select your desired Prospect and Click Resume Prospect, or it might say Join Prospect if you weren't previously involved in the selected Prospect. After your server loads, your newly configured Prospect should be loaded from its last save. To learn more about Icarus server hosting, you can browse our library of Knowledgebase articles here.