Palworld Admin Commands & Moderation Guide

Palworld's dedicated server ships with a set of admin commands for moderating players, saving the world and shutting the server down cleanly. This guide covers every command available in 1.0, how to authenticate as an admin, and the details that trip people up — player IDs, case sensitivity and where bans are actually stored.

Before you start, you need an Admin Password set on your server. On your Palworld hosting plan this is the Admin Password field on the Startup tab — it is set for you automatically but you are free to change it. It accepts letters, numbers, dashes and underscores only, up to 30 characters.

Do not set the admin password in PalWorldSettings.ini

The panel manages this value and rewrites it into the config on every start, so an edit made in the file will be overwritten.

Becoming an Admin: How to Set the Admin Password

Join your server, press Enter to open the chat box, and authenticate with your admin password:

/AdminPassword YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD

You will get a confirmation message in chat. That one step is what activates admin commands for your session — every other command on this page requires it first.

This is what people mean by the Palworld admin login: there is no separate admin account or control panel to sign into. The password is the login, and once accepted it unlocks the full set of admin controls listed below.

Admin access lasts for the session only

It ends when you disconnect, so you need to authenticate again each time you rejoin. Console and Game Pass players authenticate the same way — the chat box behaves identically across platforms. Note this action does not work in single player games!

Where to Type Commands on a Dedicated Server

There are two places to run these commands, and both use the same command set:

• In-game chat — press Enter and type the command with a leading slash, e.g. /ShowPlayers. You must have authenticated with /AdminPassword first.
• The server console (RCON) — the same commands typed without the leading slash, e.g. ShowPlayers. Covered in the RCON section below.

There is no separate developer console

Unlike some games, Palworld has no second command set hidden behind a dev console. On a dedicated server, the "console commands" people search for are these admin chat commands. A single-player world has a World Options menu for rates and difficulty instead — not this command set.

Every Palworld Admin Command: The Full List

The full list of admin commands in Palworld 1.0. Type them in the in-game chat box, exactly as written, after authenticating.

Admin Access

Server Information

Moderation

Knowing the commands is the easy half. For deciding when to reach for each one — and what to do when a ban gets appealed — see our game server moderation playbook.

Teleport Commands

There is no /tp shorthand in Palworld

Palworld does not accept /tp, /teleport or coordinate-based teleporting. The only two teleport commands are the ones above, and both take a PlayerID rather than X/Y/Z coordinates.

There is no noclip or fly command either

Palworld has no /noclip, /fly or /ghost. /ToggleSpectate is the nearest thing the dedicated server offers — it takes you out of your character and into a free-roaming spectator view, which covers most of what noclip gets reached for. Run it a second time to drop back into normal play.

Communication

Broadcast has a long-standing parsing quirk that is still present in 1.0, but it is narrower than it is usually described. Over RCON and in-game chat, the server treats each word after the command as a separate argument and keeps only the first, so /Broadcast HELLO WORLD! reaches players as just HELLO. Joining the words with underscores gets the whole thing through: /Broadcast HELLO_WORLD!.

The REST API is not affected — send the sentence as-is

POST /v1/api/announce takes the message as a message string inside a JSON body rather than as a space-separated argument list, so spaces survive and no underscores are needed. That is the path to build against anyway: Pocketpair has deprecated RCON and states it is "scheduled to stop functioning in an upcoming update", so the chat and RCON truncation is not something to wait out — it is a quirk to work around on an interface that is going away.

Server Lifecycle

/DoExit is instant — save first

/DoExit kills the server straight away with no countdown, so anything since the last autosave can be lost. For a clean restart run /Save, then /Shutdown 60 Restarting in 60s to give players warning, rather than reaching for /DoExit.

Admin Permissions: There Is Only One Level

Palworld has no permission tiers, no moderator role and no per-command whitelist. Anyone who knows the admin password gets every command on this page, and anyone who does not gets none. There is no way to grant a player kick rights without also granting shutdown rights.

The practical consequence: treat AdminPassword as a full server credential. If you want graduated moderation, the only route today is to keep the password to yourself and act on reports.

Finding a Player's ID

Every moderation and teleport command needs a player identifier, and /ShowPlayers is where you get it. It returns one line per connected player containing their character name, their Player UID and their Steam ID.

Which one to use depends on the platform:

• Steam players have both. Either works, and the Steam ID is the more reliable of the two.
• Xbox, Game Pass, PS5 and Mac players do not have a Steam ID. Use the Player UID for these players.

Because crossplay is enabled by default on Palworld 1.0 servers, you will have a mix of both. If a kick or ban does not seem to register, check that you used an identifier the player actually has. Is Palworld Crossplay? covers which platforms share a server and how console players find you.

How Bans Work

/BanPlayer disconnects the player and records the ban server-side. Bans persist across restarts and are stored in a plain text file at:

Pal/Saved/SaveGames/banlist.txt

There is no in-game command to view the ban list, so open that file in the panel's File Manager to see who is currently banned. You can also edit it directly with the server stopped, which is the easiest way to unban someone who is no longer connected.

Palworld also checks a global ban list maintained by Pocketpair, set by BanListURL in your config. This is separate from your own bans and covers players banned at the game level.

Kick versus ban

A kick disconnects a player who can rejoin straight away — useful for clearing someone stuck in a broken state. A ban keeps them out until you remove it.

RCON (Legacy)

RCON lets external tools send the same commands remotely, without being in-game. It works today, but Pocketpair has deprecated it and has said it will stop functioning in a future update, so we recommend building anything new against the REST API instead.

On our panel, RCON is already enabled and reserved for internal use. The panel connects to it to shut your server down gracefully and save the world safely on stop. You can use this to type directly into the server console to execute commands. You do not need to use the / before the command here.

Running Palworld outside our panel? Do not expose RCON

RCON has no encryption and a single shared password. If you are self-hosting, bind it to 127.0.0.1, tunnel over SSH, or firewall the port to trusted addresses. An open RCON port with a weak password is a full server takeover.

Spawn Items and Cheats — the Honest Answer

This is the single biggest misconception, so let's be blunt: Palworld's vanilla admin commands cannot spawn items or Pals. The built-in set is the server-management list above — kick, ban, broadcast, save, shutdown, teleport. There is no /give, no /spawn and no cheat menu baked into the dedicated server.

People searching for "Palworld spawn commands" or "cheat commands" are usually after one of these instead:

• Mods — the real way to get item and Pal spawning, admin GUIs and cheat menus on a server. This is almost always what you want.
• Single-player World Options — the in-game menu tunes rates, difficulty and some world behaviour, but it is not the admin command set and does not spawn arbitrary items.
• Dev and debug tools — developer world options that sit outside the standard dedicated-server commands.

Want item and Pal spawning, or an admin menu?

That is mod territory. How to Install Palworld Server & Client Mods covers installing mods that add spawning, admin GUIs and quality-of-life tools to a dedicated server.

Admin Commands in Single Player and Co-op

A world you host from the game client — single player, or co-op through an invite code — has no admin password. There is no field to set one and no /AdminPassword command to accept it, so none of the commands on this page work there. That applies to the host as much as to the friends who joined.

The reason is structural rather than a missing feature. AdminPassword is a PalWorldSettings.ini setting, and that file belongs to the dedicated server — Pocketpair define a dedicated server as "a method used to host a server without hosting the world from the game client". A client-hosted world never reads that file, so there is no password for it to check against.

There are three real routes, depending on what you were trying to do:

• Change rates, difficulty or world behaviour — use World Options when you create the world, or the world's settings screen afterwards. This covers most of what people reach for the config for, and it needs no commands.
• Spawn items or Pals — mods, and only mods. Pocketpair support modding and Palworld has a Steam Workshop, but note their own line that "issues that occur while using MODs, or modified game data, are not covered by support".
• Kick, ban, broadcast, teleport, schedule restarts — a dedicated server. These are server-management commands and there is no client-side equivalent to substitute. Setting Up Your Palworld Dedicated Server is the place to start, and your existing co-op world can move onto it.

Server-side mods are Windows-only

Pocketpair's server documentation states that server-side mods "work only on the dedicated server with Windows edition". A Linux dedicated server runs the vanilla command set on this page and nothing else. How to Install Palworld Server & Client Mods covers what installs where.

Why You Get "This Server Does Not Have an Admin Password Set"

If /AdminPassword comes back telling you the server has no admin password set, your password was not rejected — the server has nothing to compare it against. In the order these actually happen:

1. You are in a co-op or single-player world, not on a dedicated server. See the section above. Nothing you type in chat fixes this one.
2. The server has not been restarted since the password was set. Palworld reads its configuration at startup only. On our panel, change Admin Password on the Startup tab and then restart — saving the field is not enough, and because the panel rewrites the value into the config on every start, a restart is usually the entire fix.
3. The value went into DefaultPalWorldSettings.ini. Pocketpair are explicit that "editing DefaultPalWorldSettings.ini will not affect the changes". That file is the template you copy from. The live file is PalWorldSettings.ini.
4. The config is in the wrong platform folder. A Linux server reads Pal/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/PalWorldSettings.ini; a Windows server reads Pal/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/PalWorldSettings.ini. Editing the one your server is not running from looks identical to editing nothing.
5. AdminPassword is present but empty. Blank counts as unset.

/AdminPassword cannot create a password

It only submits one. There is no in-game way to set the admin password on a server that has none — the value has to exist server-side before you join, which is why every fix above happens outside the game.

Can I Make Someone Else an Admin on My Palworld Server?

No. There is no command to make another player an admin, no moderator role, and no way to grant one command without granting all of them. The password is the entire permission system, and anyone you hand it to can also run /Shutdown and /DoExit.

What you can delegate is panel access rather than in-game admin. A sub-user with console access reaches the same commands over RCON, so it is not a lower level of trust — but it does let you hand someone start, stop and restart without giving out the password your in-game admins authenticate with. How to Add Sub-Users to Your Panel covers setting that up.

If the password has already spread further than you meant, change it on the Startup tab and restart. Admin sessions do not survive the disconnect, so everyone re-authenticates against the new value.

Related Palworld Guides

• Setting Up Your Palworld Dedicated Server — full setup guide, the place to start.
• Palworld Dedicated Server World Settings Explained — every PalWorldSettings.ini option, including AdminPassword and BanListURL.
• How to Install Palworld Server & Client Mods — the route to spawning, admin GUIs and quality-of-life tools.
• Is Palworld Crossplay? — which platforms share a server, and how console players join.

FAQ

How do I become admin in Palworld?

On our panel, set the Admin Password field on your server's Startup tab — it is filled in automatically, but you can change it — then restart. Join the server, press Enter to open chat, and type /AdminPassword YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD. Do not set it in PalWorldSettings.ini; the panel rewrites that value on every start.

How do I activate and use admin commands?

Activate them once per session by typing /AdminPassword YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD in the chat box. Once authenticated, press Enter to open chat and type any command with a leading slash — /ShowPlayers, /Broadcast Hello, /KickPlayer <PlayerID> or /Save. The same commands work from the server console without the slash.

How do I make someone else an admin on my Palworld server?

Give them the admin password. Palworld has no command that makes another player an admin and no moderator role — anyone who knows the password and activates it with /AdminPassword gets the full command set, including /Shutdown. If you want to delegate without handing over that much, give them panel access instead: How to Add Sub-Users to Your Panel.

Does Palworld have console or cheat commands to spawn items?

No. The built-in admin commands are server-management only — there is no official command to spawn items or Pals. Spawning gear or Pals requires How to Install Palworld Server & Client Mods, or the world and dev options in single player.

How do I kick or ban a player?

Run /ShowPlayers to get the player's identifier, then /KickPlayer <PlayerID> to kick or /BanPlayer <PlayerID> to ban. /UnBanPlayer <PlayerID> reverses a ban. Use the Steam ID for Steam players and the Player UID for Xbox, Game Pass, PS5 and Mac players.

Can I use admin commands in single player?

No — this command set is for dedicated servers only. A single-player or co-op world has its own World Options menu for rates and difficulty, but not the /AdminPassword chat commands.

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