How to become an admin on your The Forest server

The Forest uses an admin password rather than a list of player IDs. Anyone who knows this password can authenticate as an administrator, so keep it different from the normal join password.

  1. Stop the server and open Configuration Files.
  2. Edit server.cfg and set serverPasswordAdmin to a strong password:
serverPasswordAdmin ExampleAdminPassword
  1. Save the file, start the server and join it.
  2. Enter the admin password in the admin-password field when joining.
  3. Open multiplayer chat with Enter and use /help as a harmless permission check.

Useful commands include /save 1 through /save 5, /kick STEAMID, /ban STEAMID and /shutdown. Avoid /restart unless you intend to reset save data; the game documents that command as destructive.

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