---
title: "How To Ban and Kick Players On Your Palworld server"
description: "Guide on banning or kicking players"
url: https://help.chiphead.tech/en/articles/128-how-to-ban-and-kick-players-on-your-palworld-server
collection: "Palword"
updated: 2026-06-07
language: en
---

# How To Ban and Kick Players On Your Palworld server

Guide on banning or kicking players

### 🛡 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.
    
    > **Info:** If needed here are a couple useful guides:
    > \- [How To Join Your Palworld Server](https://help.chiphead.tech/en/articles/127-how-to-join-your-palworld-server.md)
    > \- [Make yourself an Admin on your Palworld sever](https://help.chiphead.tech/en/articles/420-make-yourself-an-admin-on-your-palworld-sever.md)
    
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.
    
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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.
    
    > **Info:** If needed here are a couple useful guides:
    > \- [How To Join Your Palworld Server](https://help.chiphead.tech/en/articles/127-how-to-join-your-palworld-server.md)
    > \- [Make yourself an Admin on your Palworld sever](https://help.chiphead.tech/en/articles/420-make-yourself-an-admin-on-your-palworld-sever.md)
    
2.  Once in game, bring up the chat window by pressing enter.
    
3.  Type **/KickPlayer** <**PlayerID** or **SteamID**\>
    
    1.  💡 Example:
        
        /KickPlayer <ID>
        

> **Success:** This will now have kicked the player.

### 👢 Banning a Player

1.  Connect to your Palworld server as an admin.
    
    > **Info:** If needed here are a couple useful guides:
    > \- [How To Join Your Palworld Server](https://help.chiphead.tech/en/articles/127-how-to-join-your-palworld-server.md)
    > \- [Make yourself an Admin on your Palworld sever](https://help.chiphead.tech/en/articles/420-make-yourself-an-admin-on-your-palworld-sever.md)
    
2.  Once in game, bring up the chat window by pressing enter.
    
3.  Type **/BanPlayer** <**PlayerID** or **SteamID**\>
    
    1.  💡 Example:
        
        /BanPlayer <ID>
        

> **Success:** This will now have banned the player.

> **Info:** 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.
    
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2.  Stop your server.
    
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3.  Navigate to **Files**.
    
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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.
        
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    2.  Name the file and click **Create.**
        
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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
    
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