Host a TShock Server

Install

Hosting a tshock server is similar to a original terraria server. The only difference is that you need to install dotnet.

> arch
x86_64
> curl -L "https://github.com/Pryaxis/TShock/releases/download/v5.2.0/TShock-5.2-for-Terraria-1.4.4.9-linux-x64-Release.zip" -o ./TShock-5-2.zip
> unzip ./TShock-5-2.zip
> tar -xvf ./Tshork-Beta-linux-x64-Release-tar
> ./TShock.Server

Then the server will prompt you to install dotnet.

Install .NET on Linux distributions - .NET | Microsoft Learn

> wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
> sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
> rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y aspnetcore-runtime-6.0
> ./TShock.Server

[Troubleshooting]

After I did the above on Ubuntu 22.04, TShock still cannot find .NET, but apt says dotnet is already installed. Here an environment variable should be set. And be sure where to point the env, in my case it is /usr/lib/dotnet/.

.net - dotnet sdk is installed but not recognized - Linux Ubuntu/popOS 22.04 - Stack Overflow

Configure

The configuration process needs to start a terraria game and connect to this server. The server console will show a setup code like /setup 114514. Use a random player and connect to the server, and type /setup [code] in the game chat. Then use /user add [username] [password] owner to add an admin, and /login [username] [password]. Then /setup finishes this configuration.