Change max players on your server

The player limit is a setting your game reads, and where you change it depends on the game. Minecraft keeps it in the Config Editor. Most other games have a Max Players or Player slots field in the Startup tab. Two games, Enshrouded and RuneScape: Dragonwilds, take the limit from your plan instead.

Which tab holds it

Valheim's panel has no player-limit field.

Change it on Minecraft

Minecraft has no Startup tab in the panel, so the limit lives in server.properties, which the Config Editor shows as labelled fields.

1. In the left rail, open Content and choose Config Editor.
2. Find the Players card and change Player slots.
3. Select Save changes on that card.
4. Restart the server from the Console tab. The save message says "Restart the server to apply it."

If you would rather edit the file, open server.properties in the File Manager and change the max-players line (How to manage your server files).

Change it on the other games

1. Open More in the left rail and choose Startup.
2. Find the field from the table and type the new number.
3. Select Save on that row. On Garry's Mod and Terraria the fields sit in cards, so select Save changes on the card instead.
4. Restart the server so it reads the new value. While the server is running, a "Restart to apply" box appears with a Restart now button; you can also restart from the Console tab.

A number outside the range in the table is refused.

Enshrouded and Dragonwilds

Your plan sets the limit on these two, and you cannot type your own. The server works it out on every start from the plan's memory and prints it in the Console as [PYW] Player cap for this plan. Enshrouded gives 4, 8 or 16 players depending on the plan. To change the cap, upgrade or downgrade your plan and restart. The settings guides for each game cover the details: Enshrouded server settings and RuneScape: Dragonwilds server settings.

A higher limit does not add resources

On most games the number is only a ceiling, so raising it lets more people in but does not make the server stronger. Minecraft's help text says it plainly: your plan does not cap the slots, your RAM does. Before you raise the limit a long way, read How many players can your Minecraft server hold per GB of RAM? For other games, watch the graphs while the server fills up (Why is my server lagging?).