V Rising Admin Commands: Full Console and RCON List

V Rising admin access is granted by a text file on the server and activated in-game with a single console command. This guide covers adminlist.txt, the adminauth handshake, every admin console command in the current 1.1 build, the separate RCON command set, and the commands people expect to find that V Rising does not have.

Vanilla V Rising has no chat commands

Every native command is typed into the developer console, with no prefix — no /, no .. Commands that start with . come from mods running on VampireCommandFramework, not from the base game.

1. How Admin Access Works

There is no ownerid-style command that makes someone admin. V Rising reads a plain text file of SteamID64s at startup and periodically afterwards, and players in that list can then raise their own privileges in-game.

All three are required. Being in adminlist.txt does nothing until you run adminauth, and adminauth fails if you are not in the file. MaxConnectedAdmins (default and maximum 4) is a separate reserved-slot pool that lets listed admins connect to a full server.

2. Add Yourself to adminlist.txt

The file lives in the Settings folder of your persistent data path, beside ServerHostSettings.json. Launching with -persistentDataPath .\save-data puts it at save-data\Settings\adminlist.txt; with no override, Windows uses %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Stunlock Studios\VRisingServer\Settings\.

One 17-digit SteamID64 per line. Nothing else — no names, no quotes, no comments.

76561197960287930
76561198012345678

Find your SteamID64 in the Steam client under your username → Account details. Bans work the same way: banlist.txt sits beside adminlist.txt, one SteamID64 per line, and the server rewrites it whenever you ban someone from the console.

It is adminlist.txt, and there is no reload command

Older guides — including our own earlier version of this page — refer to an AdminUsers.txt file and a reloadadminlist command. Neither exists. Stunlock's official server instructions have named the file adminlist.txt in every release from 0.5.x through 1.1.x, and reloadadminlist is in neither the game's command table nor the RCON command set.

Edits are picked up on a delay, not instantly

You can edit adminlist.txt while the server runs, but it is only re-read periodically, roughly on the autosave cycle. Allow up to about five minutes, or restart if you need it immediately.

3. Enable the Console and Authenticate

Press Esc → Options → General, tick Console Enabled (about eight rows down), then press ~ in the world to drop the console.

adminauth
listusers true
list

adminauth does not persist

Run it again after every login, reconnect and server restart. If a command suddenly returns nothing, this is almost always why. Watch out for autocomplete turning list into listusers when you press Tab.

4. Where Commands Are Typed

V Rising has three command surfaces, and they do not share a command set.

There is no interactive terminal on the dedicated server process itself. Anything remote goes through RCON.

5. Moderation Commands

Typed in the in-game console after adminauth.

Time units for temp bans are Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months and Years. Both temp bans and both mute commands arrived in the 1.1 October patch.

unban takes a list index, not a SteamID

Run banned first and read the index off that list. Indices are positional and shift every time a ban is added or removed, so never reuse one from an earlier session. To work with IDs instead, edit banlist.txt directly.

6. Player and Server Information

7. Your Own Character

8. Item and Gear Commands (Debug Events)

give, giveset and the teleport family are not ordinary admin commands. They run through V Rising's debug event system, which has two switches in ServerHostSettings.json.

give and giveset use dynamic tab-completion: type the command, start typing a name, press Tab to cycle matches, and the console inserts the full identifier. give only fills empty inventory slots, so a full bag silently swallows part of a large request.

giveset CottonSet_IronWeapons
give "[Name]Blood Essence - Item_BloodEssence_T01 - Guid: 862477668" 1000
generatebloodpotion BloodType_Draculin 100 BloodType_Warrior 100 3

Blood types are BloodType_ plus Brute, Corruption, Creature, Draculin, Mutant, Rogue, Scholar, Warrior or Worker.

9. Teleport Commands

teleport takes a selector, not just a name: Self, ClosestPlayer, ClosestEnemy, ClosestUnit, the …ToCursor variants, AllPlayers, AllOtherPlayers, AllAllies, AllEnemies, "user:Name". Destinations include Cursor, Nether, VBloodEnemy, WorldPosition, TilePosition and chunk:12,11.

10. War Events and Castles

Four admin commands flood your server until you restart it

decayusercastles, generatecastle, generatecastlesinregion and forcecraftingstations spam network or crafting events continuously, with no way to stop them short of a restart. Use castleheartevent Abandon instead of decayusercastles. Separately, generatejewelvariants can crash the client if your inventory is full.

The last three of those, plus setadminlevel and enableserverfeature, are flagged internally as non-live: hidden from autocomplete and generally unavailable on retail builds. Do not build a workflow around setadminlevel — adminlist.txt is the supported way to manage admins.

11. RCON Commands

RCON is a deliberately small, separate command set. It cannot spawn items, kick players or teleport anyone.

"Rcon": {
  "Enabled": true,
  "Password": "somepassword",
  "Port": 25575
}

The password cannot be empty. Port defaults to 25575 and may be any free TCP port.

Use the panel for these

The Console tab on your V Rising game server is already wired to your server's RCON socket, so announce, announcerestart and shutdown work without configuring Rcon by hand, opening a TCP port, or installing a client like mcrcon.

12. Console Utilities

Available to any player, and useful for repetitive admin work. Bind modifiers are Shift, Control or Alt.

13. Commands V Rising Does Not Have

These come up constantly. None exist in the game's command table.

14. Mod Command Frameworks

Anything outside the list above — chat commands, economies, custom kits — means mods. The stack is BepInEx as the loader plus VampireCommandFramework (VCF), which nearly every command-driven V Rising mod depends on. Bloodstone used to be the second common dependency, but it is flagged deprecated on Thunderstore and nothing maintained still requires it; the shared-hook libraries you will meet in its place are HookDOTS API, and BloodyCore for the Bloody* family of mods.

VCF commands are typed in the chat box, not the console, and use a . prefix; .help lists everything registered. Install VCF into BepInEx/plugins and keep it current, since mods break against old versions. Mods are also client-and-server matched, so a gameplay mod on your server usually has to be installed by everyone who connects.

15. FAQ

Why does adminauth say I am not an admin?

Three usual causes: your SteamID64 is not in adminlist.txt, the line has extra characters on it, or the server has not re-read the file yet. The list refreshes periodically rather than instantly, so allow a few minutes after editing, then restart the server if it still fails.

Do I have to run adminauth every time I log in?

Yes. Admin status is per-session, not persistent. Reconnecting, changing character and restarting the server all drop it, so you re-run adminauth each time. admindeauth gives it up early if you want to test something as a normal player.

Why does the give command do nothing?

Almost always because debug events are switched off. give, giveset and the teleport commands go through the debug event system, and DisableDebugEvents: true in ServerHostSettings.json disables it completely, even for admins. Set it back to false and restart. If it works for you but not for other admins, check AdminOnlyDebugEvents.

Can I run admin commands from RCON?

No. RCON only accepts the ten server-management commands in section 11. Kicks, bans, teleports and item spawns all require a client connected to the world with adminauth run. Plan remote moderation around that, or use a mod that adds an RCON bridge.

What is the difference between bancharacter and banuser?

bancharacter resolves a connected character name to its account, so the player has to be online. banuser takes a raw SteamID64 and works whether or not they are connected, which makes it the right choice after someone has logged off. Both write to banlist.txt.

Can I give another player admin rights without editing files?

Not reliably. setadminlevel exists in the command table with levels None, Moderator, Admin and SuperAdmin, but it is flagged as a non-live command — hidden from autocomplete and generally unavailable on retail server builds. Add their SteamID64 to adminlist.txt instead.

16. What to Read Next

• Getting started with your V Rising server for first boot, ports and connecting
• Configuring your V Rising server for ServerHostSettings.json and ServerGameSettings.json
• How to Install V Rising Mods for BepInEx, VampireCommandFramework and chat commands

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