Settings & Admin
Config files, whitelists, operators and admin commands, explained setting by setting.
7 Days to Die
All 7 Days to Die guides7 Days to Die admins, bans and whitelist
Make players admins on your 7 Days to Die server, kick and ban troublemakers, and keep strangers out with a password or a whitelist.
7 Days to Die console commands
The 7 Days to Die admin commands worth knowing, typed straight into your dashboard's Console: players, bans, chat, time, weather, items and saves.
7 Days to Die server settings
Change your 7 Days to Die server's name, description, password, visibility, PvP, Sandbox code difficulty and more from the Startup and Server Settings tabs.
ARK: Survival Ascended
All ARK: Survival Ascended guidesARK: Survival Ascended admin commands
Find your ARK: Survival Ascended admin password, turn on cheats in game, fly, spawn items, kick and ban, or run commands from the panel console.
ARK: Survival Ascended settings explained
Set XP, taming, harvest, difficulty and breeding rates on your ARK: Survival Ascended server with presets, or edit GameUserSettings.ini by hand.
ARK: Survival Evolved
All ARK: Survival Evolved guidesARK ini settings: GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini
What the common ARK: Survival Evolved GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini settings do, from XP and taming to breeding, and why to stop the server first.
ARK server admin password and cheats
Set ServerAdminPassword from the Startup tab, log in with enablecheats, run the basic admin commands, and whitelist admins by Steam64 ID.
Change Alliance Settings in ARK: Evolved
Switch tribe alliances off or cap their size on your ARK: Survival Evolved server with PreventTribeAlliances and two Game.ini limits.
Change Per-Level Stats in ARK: Evolved
Change how much each level-up point is worth for players, tames and wild creatures on ARK: Survival Evolved, with the stat index and Game.ini lines.
Change Wild Spawn Rates in ARK: Evolved
Scale wild creature spawns with DinoCountMultiplier or favour one creature with DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers on your ARK: Survival Evolved server.
Disable Ice Wyverns on ARK: Survival Evolved
Stop Ice Wyverns spawning on your ARK: Survival Evolved server with one NPCReplacements line in Game.ini, then clear the ones already on the map.
Enshrouded
All Enshrouded guidesEnshrouded permissions: let friends place Flame Altars
No permission to place a Flame Altar? Only Admin can at first. Switch it on for Friend, set what each role can do, and kick, ban or unban players.
Enshrouded server and world settings: how to change them
Change your Enshrouded server's name, passwords, difficulty preset and custom world and gameplay settings, and know when each change takes effect.
Garry's Mod
All Garry's Mod guidesAdd a Custom Loading Screen to GMod
Design a custom Garry's Mod loading screen in the Loading screen tab with a live preview, then publish it as your server's sv_loadingurl.
Ban Players on Your GMod Server
Kick and ban by SteamID from the Players tab or with banid in the Console, lift a ban with Unban, and find where the ban list is saved.
Change the Player Slots on Your GMod Server
Change how many players your Garry's Mod server allows from the Startup tab, apply it with a restart and check the new number.
Enable Cheats on Your GMod Server
Turn on sv_cheats from the Console tab, or save it in server.cfg so it survives a restart, and see which commands it unlocks for players.
GMod admin commands: ULX and ULib setup
Install ULX and ULib on your GMod server, make yourself superadmin, and use the everyday kick, ban, freeze and mute commands.
GMod Server Console Commands
The Garry's Mod console commands worth knowing on a hosted server for players, bans, maps and settings, and how to keep a change after a restart.
Minecraft
All Minecraft guidesChange game rules on your Minecraft server
Run the Minecraft gamerule command in the Console, with a table of the old and new rule names after the 1.21.11 rename and the settings that moved into rules.
Change Minecraft mob spawn rates and limits
Edit the Minecraft spawn limits in bukkit.yml and spigot.yml on Paper, or switch natural spawning off with the right game rule for your version.
Change the Minecraft sleeping percentage
Set how many players must sleep to skip the night in Minecraft with the players_sleeping_percentage game rule, using the right name for your version.
Change your Minecraft server's spawn point
Move the world spawn with setworldspawn from the Console or in game, then set spawn protection and the respawn radius to suit your Minecraft server.
Create a flat or superflat Minecraft world
Make a Minecraft superflat world with the Config Editor, or set your own layers in server.properties, using a new world folder so the old one stays safe.
Disable chat reporting on a Minecraft server
Set enforce-secure-profile in server.properties and install FreedomChat on Minecraft Paper or No Chat Reports on Fabric, Forge or NeoForge.
Palworld
All Palworld guidesHow to become a Palworld server admin
Find your admin password, log in with /AdminPassword, and use the commands that matter: broadcast, kick, ban, teleport, save and shutdown.
Palworld server settings and best presets
Where PalWorldSettings.ini lives, why your edits don't apply, what every common key does, and three presets to start your server from.
Palworld World Options Beyond the Settings Tab
Palworld server settings Pocketpair documents that the World Settings tab leaves out, with its descriptions and how to change them by hand.
Project Zomboid
All Project Zomboid guidesConnect Project Zomboid to Discord
Link Project Zomboid's built-in Discord bot to your server: make the bot, paste its token and the chat channel's name in the Discord tab, and restart.
How to set the spawn point in Project Zomboid
Choose where new Project Zomboid characters start: spawn regions in the Worlds tab, one fixed spawn point, and the respawn switches in Server Settings.
Hunger, Thirst and Farming Rates in Zomboid
Slow or speed up hunger, thirst, fatigue and food spoilage, and tune crop growth speed and yield on your Project Zomboid server.
Project Zomboid admin commands and roles
Log in as your Project Zomboid server's admin, hand out roles, kick and ban, make the server whitelist-only and run admin commands from the panel.
Project Zomboid minimap: turn it on, coordinates, dots
Turn on the Project Zomboid mini-map, show player coordinates and choose which players appear on the map of your server.
Project Zomboid server and sandbox settings
Change your Project Zomboid server's rules and sandbox settings from the panel: presets, zombie speed and count, loot, day length and the whitelist.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
All RuneScape: Dragonwilds guidesAdd Admins to Your Dragonwilds Server
What owners, admins and regular players can do on your Dragonwilds server, how the admin password makes admins and how to take admin back.
Change Dragonwilds Difficulty and World Settings
Difficulty, Creative and Custom rules are set when a world is made. Build the world on your PC and import it to your Dragonwilds server.
Enable Crossplay on Your Dragonwilds Server
Where the PlatformPolicy line lives in your Dragonwilds server's DedicatedServer.ini, the five values it accepts and how to check the server took one.
Enable Gravestone Protection in Dragonwilds
Gravestone Protection stops other players looting your gravestone. It is a setting each player turns on in the game, not on the server.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds server settings: what each does
What Owner ID, World Name, Server Name, Join Password and Admin Password do on a RuneScape: Dragonwilds server, and how a change is applied.
Use a Creative World on Your Dragonwilds Server
What a Creative world removes, how to import one to your Dragonwilds server and why your party needs Creative characters to join it.
Rust
All Rust guidesChange Crafting Speed on Your Rust Server
Set a crafting speed multiplier on Rust with the Crafting Controller plugin, with its commands and permissions, plus the game's craft.instant.
Change Deep Sea Settings on Rust
Use deepsea settings in server.cfg to control when Rust's deep sea opens, what spawns there, who can enter and lag while it opens.
Change Team Size on Your Rust Server
Set the largest team your Rust server allows with relationshipmanager.maxteamsize, from the Console now or server.cfg for good.
Change the Game Mode on Your Rust Server
Set Rust's softcore, hardcore or primitive mode with one launch argument on the Startup tab, then restart. Includes the mid-wipe warning.
Change the Missile Silo Timer on Rust
Set the wipe countdown in the Nuclear Missile Silo to your real wipe day, hour and timezone with Additional Arguments and wipetimer.printwipe.
Change the Time of Day on Your Rust Server
Set the in-game clock with env.time, hold it with env.progresstime, and use two scheduled commands to keep it after a restart.
Satisfactory
All Satisfactory guidesSatisfactory admin password: find or reset
Find your Satisfactory server's admin password, see what happens when it's changed in the game, and what to do if it's lost or a friend changed it.
Satisfactory console commands worth knowing
Open Satisfactory's in-game console, set a new key if yours won't open it, and use the commands worth knowing for FPS, graphics and getting unstuck.
Satisfactory creative mode: turn it on, what it includes
Turn on Satisfactory Creative Mode, once called Advanced Game Settings, on your server, and see what Game Modes such as cost multipliers change.
Satisfactory server settings
Change your Satisfactory server's autosave, daily world reload and network quality, its Startup settings, and what stays in the game's Server Manager.
Terraria
All Terraria guidesBan Items on Your Terraria TShock Server
Ban items with the itemban console command, let chosen groups keep using them, and stop admins spawning banned items on TShock.
Change Invasion Settings on Terraria TShock
Set invasion size and endless invasions in the Server Settings tab, then start or end goblin, pirate and moon events from the console.
Change Max Players on Your Terraria Server
Change Player slots on the Startup tab for TShock or tModLoader, and see how TShock's reserved slots can let extra players in.
Change PvP Settings on Your Terraria Server
Force PvP on, turn it off, or leave it to each player with the PvP setting in the Server Settings tab of a Terraria TShock server.
Change the Terraria Server Respawn Timer
Set how many seconds players wait to respawn, with a separate timer for boss fights, using TShock's Server Settings. Includes safe limits.
Enable Journey Mode on Your Terraria Server
Make a Journey world on your Terraria server, then give players the Power Menu with TShock permissions or tModLoader config lines.
Valheim
All Valheim guidesAdd admins to your Valheim server
Make a player a Valheim admin from the Players tab or by ID, then restart. What admins can do, and the F5 console.
Change Valheim world settings on your server
Change world settings on an existing Valheim world without starting over: presets, combat, raids and resources from the Startup tab.
Enable PvP on your Valheim server
Valheim PvP isn't a server setting. Where the in-game PVP toggle is, and how the death penalty sets the stakes for your group.
Find a player's Valheim ID
Where a Valheim player's Steam or Xbox ID comes from, what the format looks like, and how the Players tab fills it in.
Kick and ban Valheim players
Ban from the Players tab, add a ban by ID, unban, and kick with the in-game admin console.
Spawn items on your Valheim server
The base game blocks spawn on a dedicated server. How to use the Server Devcommands mod, and the spawn syntax.
General guides
Add an extra port to your server
Add or release an extra port in Settings for web maps, voice mods or RCON tools, and see how your plan's limit counts them.
Change max players on your server
Where each game keeps its player limit (Minecraft Config Editor, the Startup tab, or your plan) and how to apply a new number.
Change your game server's join password
Change the join password on your game server: the panel tab and field for each game, when to restart, and what to use on Minecraft and Rust.
Claim a free server address
Claim a name under servers.playyourway.com.au so players can join without typing an IP, then change or release it any time.
Find your Steam ID (SteamID64)
Find your 17-digit SteamID64 from your Steam profile, read other players' IDs from your panel, and paste them into admin and ban lists.
Give friends access to your server panel
Invite a friend to help run your game server from the Team tab, choose which parts of the panel they can use, and change or remove their access later.