Reset Player Data on Your Palworld Server

Resetting player data in Palworld means deleting the character files from the world's save folder, which is a file operation on our panel rather than a button in the game. Pocketpair's server guide does not document it, and it does not say what happens to the bases and guilds that belonged to a deleted character. Treat it as one-way, and keep a backup you can restore.

Checked against Palworld 1.0.5 and Pocketpair's server guide for 1.0.4, October 2026.

What the player files are

On a server we checked, the world folder held Level.sav and LevelMeta.sav, with no Players folder: that folder appears only after someone has joined. Community save tools describe it as holding one .sav file per character, named with a long ID. Stored Pals, which is Dimensional Storage, sit in _dps.sav files in that same folder. Community tools treat these files as the character and everything they carried and stored, so deleting them removes it.

Reset everyone

1. Open the Backups tab and press Create backup. If your plan's backup slots are full, Download the backup you want to keep first.
2. Open the Console tab, press Stop and wait for Offline.
3. Open the File Manager and go to Pal/Saved/SaveGames/0/, then open the world folder, which has a 32-character ID as its name.
4. Open the Players folder and select every file in it. Leave Level.sav where it is. Press Delete and confirm. If there is no Players folder, nobody has joined yet and there is nothing to reset.
5. Press Start and watch the Console until the server is ready.

Reset one player

Pocketpair's docs give no one-player reset, and they do not say how a character file's long name maps to a player. Deleting the wrong pair erases someone else's character, so do not guess from the names. If you must remove a single character, never guess: use a save tool that shows which file belongs to which player, do it with the server stopped and keep the backup.

If your server is Hardcore

On a Hardcore server you may not need to touch files at all. The World Settings tab has a New character after Hardcore death toggle in the Difficulty & Combat group. Pocketpair describes the setting as whether you may recreate your character upon death in Hardcore mode. With it on, a player who dies gets a new character without anyone deleting a file. Stop the server before pressing Save settings, then Start it, because Palworld writes its settings back to the file on shutdown and a change saved while it runs is lost.

Check the result

Once the server is up, have one player join and confirm they land on character creation, and that the map and your other settings are as you left them. Press Create backup again so the new state is saved. If something is wrong, restore the earlier backup from the Backups tab. Restoring overwrites all current server files and stops the server first, so make sure nobody is mid-session.