Worlds, Areas & Personal Servers

Config > Worlds is the map of your game. A World is a group of Areas, shown as a tab. An Area is one published Roblox place: a Ring, a Zone, a subrealm. Towers say which Area they are in by naming its id.

Everything below Ring 1 is an example

The kit ships two Worlds and eight Areas to show each unlock rule. Only Ring 1 is real; the others point at Ring 1's place until you put in your own Place IDs. Delete or rewrite them.

Add Worlds And Areas

hubPlaceId = 1234567890,
worlds = {
	{
		id = "World1",
		name = "World 1 (Rings)",
		areas = {
			{ id = "Ring1", name = "Ring 1: Limbo", placeId = 73644886303842 },
			{
				id = "Ring2",
				name = "Ring 2: Desire",
				placeId = 1234567890,
				requirements = { towerCompletions = 6, difficulties = { Medium = 1 } },
			},
		},
	},
},

The order you write them in is the order players see them.

Field	Default	Purpose
id	—	Stable key. Saved with players, so never rename it after release.
name	—	What players see.
placeId	—	The place to send players to. 0 hides the Area.
emblem	none	Small icon beside this Area's towers on the Completions chart.
image	the place's thumbnail	Picture on the Area's card.
requirements	none	Unlock rules, below.
sub	false	Draws it as a subrealm, on the narrower card under the Area above it.
disabled	false	Hides the Area, or a whole World.
extended	false	An event place, or one that has closed. Its towers are shown and counted only under Extended Completions, and the hub's total leaves it out.

At the top of the file:

Field	Default	Purpose
hubPlaceId	—	Where Return to Hub sends players.
personalServers.codeLength	16	Characters in a share code, 8–30.
personalServers.ownerLeaveGracePeriod	600	Seconds a personal server stays open after its owner leaves.

Every place must be in the same Roblox experience, so they share player saves, passes and personal server codes.

Access Requirements

requirements = {
	towerCompletions = 15,
	difficulties = { Hard = 3, Difficult = 1 },
	requiredTowers = { "ToH" },
},

Field	The player needs
towerCompletions	This many different towers beaten.
difficulties	This many at each difficulty or harder. A harder tower counts toward every easier line.
requiredTowers	These exact towers beaten.
requiredBadges	These Roblox badges.
elo	At least this much Elo.
scope	Leave out to count only this World's towers; "All" counts every World. Does not affect elo.

Players see each rule with their progress, such as Beat 12 Towers (3/12). The Teleport menu shows the first one not met; the hub lists them all (see Ring Select). The wording is locks in Config > Messages.

A refusal shows the rule as a notification, with its difficulty in colour. The server checks again before every teleport. A tower place also checks each player who arrives and sends anyone locked out back to the hub, except in Studio and for admins, so you can still build a locked Area.

scope catches people out

A World with no towers of its own can never meet a towerCompletions or difficulties rule without scope = "All". The count stays at zero and the Area never opens.

Locking an Area behind a badge

requiredBadges = {
	{ id = 2124567890, name = "Ring 1 Champion" },
},

name is what players are told; without it they see the badge's number. A badge a tower awards (its badgeId) opens the Area straight away. A badge given outside the kit is noticed on the next join.

For "beat this tower", requiredTowers is simpler. Use a badge for things the kit cannot see, like an event.

Locking an Area behind Elo

requirements = { elo = 2500 },

Elo counts every tower in every World, in both modes, and harder towers are worth far more. So an Elo rule asks for depth: a hundred Easy towers don't add up to one Catastrophic. It also works in a World with no towers of its own.

The order rules are asked in

A player told one reason hears, in order: badges, named towers, the tower count, each difficulty from easiest up, then Elo.

Worked examples

The shipped Areas each show one rule:

Area	Rule
Ring1	none
Ring1Sub	towerCompletions = 1
Ring2	towerCompletions = 6, difficulties = { Medium = 1 }
Ring2Sub	difficulties = { Remorseless = 2, Insane = 1 }
Ring3	requiredTowers = { "ToDNE" }, towerCompletions = 12
Zone1	towerCompletions = 10, scope = "All"
Zone1Sub	elo = 500
Zone2	named towers, a count, a difficulty and Elo together, with scope = "All"

For comparison, EToH's World 1 asks Ring 2 for 6 towers and 1 Medium+, Ring 5 for 22 and 3 Difficult+ and 1 Challenging+, Ring 9 for 60 and 4 Intense+ and 1 Remorseless+. See the EToH wiki.

Teleport Menu UI

The Teleport menu uses these instances in MainMenu:

MenusContainer
  TeleportMenu
    OptionsHolder
      World1Button
      World2Button
      Friend
      PS
    World1Menu
      Place
        PlaceName
        EnterButton
        PSButton
      SubPlace
    World2Menu
    PSMenu
      InputCode
      JoinCode
    JoinFriendMenu
      Friend
        EnterButton
        PlayerInfo
        PlayerThumb
      InfoLabel
  SettingsMenu
    SettingsSidebar
      PSButton
    PSFrame
      ToggleServerCode
        ToggleButton
      ServerCodeFrame
        CodeBox
        RegenButton

World1Button, World1Menu, and World1Menu's Place and SubPlace cards are the templates for every World. Style them in Studio, but keep the names. An Area with sub = true uses SubPlace.

Join Friend

The Friend tab lists friends playing in Areas the player has unlocked, one row cloned from JoinFriendMenu > Friend each: the Area's picture, the friend's headshot (PlayerThumb), PlayerInfo reading Name (Area), and EnterButton to join them. It refreshes when opened, at most every ten seconds. InfoLabel explains an empty list. The words are under friends in Config > Messages.

Roblox can't tell whether a friend is in a personal server. Joining one sends the player to a new public server of that Area instead, and they're told they could not join.

Personal Servers

Set the PersonalServers pass's id in Config > GamePasses to sell them.

• A pass owner presses an Area's PSButton to make a personal server there and go to it. It starts private.
• In it, the owner's SettingsMenu > SettingsSidebar > PSButton opens the controls. ToggleServerCode creates a share code, shown in CodeBox. RegenButton replaces it. Turning the toggle off cancels it.
• Anyone can join with the code through PSMenu, pass or not.
• When the owner leaves, the server closes after ownerLeaveGracePeriod and guests go to the hub. They're warned when the owner leaves, and told if the owner comes back in time, which cancels the closing.
• Rejoin in settings returns a player to the same personal server.
• In the hub, the server list makes, joins and returns to personal servers.

A personal server belongs to one Area. Going to another Area leaves it, and the player is warned first.

Teleports and personal servers don't work in Studio playtests. Test them in the published game.

See Also

• Ring Select, the hub
• Game Passes