Enshrouded permissions: let friends place Flame Altars

On an Enshrouded server, the password a player types when they join decides what they can do. This guide covers the four roles, how to switch them on and off, how to change what each one may do, and how to unban a player.

The four roles

Admin and Friend are always on, and their passwords are made for you when the server is set up. Guest and Visitor are off until you switch them on.

See and share the passwords

Open the Players tab, then Roles. Each role that is on shows its password behind dots: press the eye to show it, the copy button to copy it, or the pencil to change it in the Startup tab.

Both are also in the left rail of your dashboard: Your password (admin) for you, and Friends' password for everyone else. Copy invite there copies your server's name and the friends' password in one message for your group chat.

Switch Guest or Visitor on

1. Open Players, then Roles.
2. Switch Guest (or Visitor) on. The server makes a password for the role.
3. Restart the server. Players who join with that password get the role.

Switch it off the same way. Its password stops working from the next start.

Change what a role can do

1. Stop the server. Enshrouded writes its settings file back while it runs, so these switches only work on a stopped server.
2. Open Players, then Roles. Under the roles, each role that is on has a column of five switches:

3. Flip the switches you want. Each one saves at once.
4. Start the server.

Passwords: the one rule

Give every role its own password. Enshrouded won't start when two roles share one. The Players tab shows a red The server won't start like this note naming the two roles, and the Console says it too:

[PYW] Enshrouded will not start like this: the Friend and Guest roles have the same password.

Change one of the two passwords in the Startup tab and start the server again. Passwords use letters, numbers, dashes and underscores: 4 to 64 characters, and at least 8 for the admin password.

Kick or ban a player

Enshrouded has no console commands, so kicking and banning happen in the game:

1. Join your server with the admin password (or as a role you gave Kick and ban players).
2. Open the game's Social tab and pick the player.
3. Choose Kick to put them out for now, or Ban to keep them out.

Unban a player

Banned players are listed in the Players tab under Banned, with their character name and when they were banned.

1. Stop the server. The game writes its ban list back while it runs.
2. Open Players, then Banned, and press Unban beside the player.
3. Start the server. They can join again.