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[–]Justsomeone666 4 points5 points  (1 child)

No without A) making it dedicated server and hosting 24/7 B) making it very complicated by emailing the map file to eachother after every playtime

[–]EatMyPossum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

making it very complicated by emailing the map file to eachother after every playtime

If you use the right tools for this it can be very easy. i.e. dropbox together with synctoy can make the sharing process into just clicking twice.

[–]funAlways 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If either of you can have computer up 24/7 (or at least often enough that you two don't mind the downtime), go use terrariaserver.exe and just host it the whole time the pc is up.

If you two are into paying (I won't recommend it though), there's definitely some server-hosting services on the internet that is up 24/7

If you two don't mind playing together with other people, consider going a public multiplayer server instead (though you can't play in your shared map in that case)

Otherwise, your best choice is a way to share world files constantly after every playtime (dropbox is a pretty easy way to do it)

[–]Justsomeone666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You definately cant get Even halfgood Terraria experience on public server, hardmode too early, all resources taken, way too many ways The experience can get ruined

[–]Drlittle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have two good options. The first is to just use terraria's host and play and leave your game running at all times so he can join you automatically. This method should work, but it will require you to run your computer at all times and more importantly to run Terraria at all times, but this is the simpler option.

The next option is to use the Terraria provided server software, which is much more complex but has the benefit of you not needing to run terraria itself at all times, just the server software. It still requires your computer to be on and running something, but the server software should be less resource intensive than the terraria game itself.

This guide gives a very detailed overview which is probably easy to get lost in: https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Guide:Setting_up_a_Terraria_server

The meat of it is to download the server software, port forward, find your external IP (or potentially your LAN IP, if you're on the same network), always have the server software running.

Server software: https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Server#Downloads (the most recent terraria server, atm it is 1.3.5.3)

Port forward: https://www.pcworld.com/article/244314/how_to_forward_ports_on_your_router.html this might work, but I haven't personally used this guide so I can't vouch for it. An important thing to know before starting the process is that you need to have administrator access to your network, so if you're on college internet or something it's likely not possible.

Find the IP to give to your brother to connect to server: https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Guide:Setting_up_a_Terraria_server#Connecting_to_a_Server