WindrosePlus Setup Guide for a Windrose Dedicated Server

Windrose supports self-hosted and dedicated servers for sessions of up to eight players. WindrosePlus is a community-developed, server-side framework for those dedicated servers; it requires no client mod and adds an RCON-backed web admin console, server-query support and a live map. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the developers of Windrose.

Install WindrosePlus

You need an existing Windrose Dedicated Server installation on Windows.

1. Open the WindrosePlus releases page and download WindrosePlus.zip from the latest release. Do not use GitHub's automatically generated source-code archive because it omits generated tools included in the release asset.
2. Extract WindrosePlus.zip into the Windrose Dedicated Server folder.
3. Open PowerShell in that folder and run:

.\install.ps1

The installer downloads UE4SS, installs WindrosePlus and sets up the dashboard.

Start the server and dashboard

Start the server as Administrator with:

StartWindrosePlusServer.bat

WindrosePlus uses a UE4SS proxy DLL that requires elevated permissions. The launch script rebuilds the override PAK when relevant multiplier or INI settings have changed, then starts WindroseServer.exe.

Start the dashboard separately from the server directory:

windrose_plus\start_dashboard.bat

The dashboard process displays its URL and the RCON password in its console. On its first run, it also creates windrose_plus.json with default settings.

Admin console and live map

The browser dashboard contains a command console with autocomplete and 30 built-in commands. Running wp.help displays the available commands; documented examples include wp.status, wp.players, wp.config, wp.creatures and wp.memory.

The Sea Chart displays player and creature positions and island terrain. Terrain generation begins after a player connects, so a new installation may initially report that the map is not ready.

Configuration

Use windrose_plus.json for multipliers, the RCON password, administrator Steam IDs and feature flags. Documented multipliers include XP, loot, crafting cost, crop speed, cooking speed and harvest yield.

Advanced tuning is available through optional INI files. The project documents more than 2,400 individual settings covering areas such as player statistics, weapons, food, gear and creatures. Multiplier and INI changes must be incorporated into an override PAK before launch; StartWindrosePlusServer.bat performs that rebuild when required.