How To Ban and Unban Players from your Core Keeper Server
To ban or unban players on a Core Keeper dedicated server, you can use the in-game admin controls via the Pause menu or directly edit the server’s config file.
Ensure You Are an Admin
First, confirm that your Steam ID is listed in the Admins.json
file of your dedicated server. This grants you the necessary admin privileges. Please refer to our How to Add Admins article for more details.
Banning Players
Join the server where you have admin privileges. Make sure you are connected to the server as an admin.
While in-game, press Esc
to open the game menu.
You will see a list of players. Next to the name of the player you wish to ban, click on the red cancel symbol. A confirmation box will appear to confirm the ban.
Unbanning Players
To unban a player, press the Esc
key in-game to bring up the main menu.
Click on the “Manage players” option in the list of settings.
In the “Banned players” section, click the red cancel symbol next to the player’s name you wish to unban. A confirmation box will appear to confirm the unban.
Manually Ban/Unban a Player via Configuration File
You can also manage banned players through the PlayerBans.json
file. This file is located where you’ve set your server’s DataPath
. At Nodecraft, this will be in the Server Files tab, in the /DedicatedServer
folder.
Select the PlayerBans.json
file and click Edit.
Inside, you’ll see how the game auto-formats banned players.
{
"banList": [
{
"index": 1,
"name": "CharacterName",
"steamId": STEAM64ID,
"crossPlatformId": 0,
"stringId": ""
}
]
}
When you edit this file, make sure to Save Changes and then Restart your Core Keeper server for the changes to take effect.