How To Ban and Kick Players On Your Palworld server

🛡 Managing Players on Your Palworld Dedicated Server

As a server administrator, you can kick or ban unwanted players using simple in-game commands.

📋 Retrieving Player Information

Before removing a player, you’ll need to know their Player ID or Steam ID.

1. Connect to your Palworld server as an admin.

   

   If needed here are a couple useful guides:
   - How To Join Your Palworld Server
   - Make yourself an Admin on your Palworld sever

2. Once in game, bring up the chat window by pressing enter.

3. Type /showplayers and press enter.

4. The system will print each of the players information as: name,player,steamid.

   

5. Note down either the Player ID or Steam ID of the player you want to take action against.

👢 Kicking a Player

Use this command to immediately remove a player from your server.

1. Connect to your Palworld server as an admin.

   

   If needed here are a couple useful guides:
   - How To Join Your Palworld Server
   - Make yourself an Admin on your Palworld sever

2. Once in game, bring up the chat window by pressing enter.

3. Type /KickPlayer <PlayerID or SteamID>

   1. 💡 Example:

      /KickPlayer <ID>

This will now have kicked the player.

👢 Banning a Player

1. Connect to your Palworld server as an admin.

   

   If needed here are a couple useful guides:
   - How To Join Your Palworld Server
   - Make yourself an Admin on your Palworld sever

2. Once in game, bring up the chat window by pressing enter.

3. Type /BanPlayer <PlayerID or SteamID>

   1. 💡 Example:

      /BanPlayer <ID>

This will now have banned the player.

When banning your first player, this will create a banlist.txt file for your server where you can manage your ban list.

Alternatively if easier - you may want to create the banlist file first to ban a player or multiple at a time.

Read on for more info on how to manage this.

Managing your Ban list for your Palworld server

1. Log in to the ChipHead Panel.

   

2. Stop your server.

   

3. Navigate to Files.

   

4. Navigate to /Pal/Saved/SavedGames/. In here you will see your banlist.txt file.

   1. If there is no present banlist.txt file, click New Folder to create a new directory.

      

   2. Name the file and click Create.

      

5. Inside this file you will now see the list of PlayerID’s or SteamID’s. Add or delete as you wish and proceed to click Save Content.

6. Start/restart your server