7 Days to Die admins, bans and whitelist

Here's how to make players admins on your 7 Days to Die server, kick and ban troublemakers, and lock the server to the people you choose.

Everything below is typed into the Console tab while the server is running. The game keeps the results in UserData/Saves/serveradmin.xml, so they survive restarts.

Players online and offline

The commands below take a player by name or entity id while they're online. lp lists who is on, and lpi lists the players with their ids.

For a player who is offline, the game identifies them by platform and id instead: the platform (Steam, EOS, XBL or PSN) and their id on it. For a Steam player that is their SteamID64, a 17-digit number such as 76561198021925107, which the game's own admin file suggests looking up from their Steam profile with a site such as steamid.io. The easiest way to add an offline player is the admin file itself (see Editing the file by hand below), which shows the exact format.

Make someone an admin

admin add <name> 0

Permission levels run from 0 to 1000. A player can run every command whose required level is the same as theirs or higher, so 0 is a full admin, and anyone you never set stays at 1000. admin remove <name> takes the rights away, and admin list shows everyone who has a level.

You can also set the level a command needs: cp add <command> <level>, cp remove <command> and cp list. For example, cp add kick 1 lets anyone at level 1 or below kick players.

Kick and ban

• kick <name> [reason] removes a player; unlike a ban, it doesn't keep them out.
• ban add <name> <duration> <unit> [reason] keeps them out for a while, for example ban add Sam 3 days "Griefing". Units are minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years, and the ban lifts by itself at the end.
• ban remove <name> lifts a ban early.
• ban list shows every ban and when it ends.

For a ban that lasts, pick a long duration such as 10 years.

Make the server private

There are three ways to keep strangers out, and you can use them together.

A password. Set Server password in the Startup tab and restart. Players enter it when they join.

Hide it from the server browser. Set Server visibility in the Startup tab to 0 (not listed). Players then connect by IP address, using the address and port from your dashboard.

A whitelist. Only players on it can join:

whitelist add <name>

Editing the file by hand

You can also edit UserData/Saves/serveradmin.xml in the File Manager tab, with the server stopped. Each admin is a line such as <user platform="Steam" userid="76561198021925107" name="Sam" permission_level="0" /> under <users>, and the whitelist and bans have their own sections. The file explains its own format at the top, but the game recommends changing it with the console commands above. Back it up first in Backups.

Related guides

• 7 Days to Die console commands
• How to make a 7 Days to Die server