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title: How to Kick or Ban Players on a Project Zomboid Server
description: Moderating your Project Zomboid server starts with knowing how to remove disruptive players. This guide explains how to kick or ban players from the server console, including optional commands for providing a reason or blocking an entire IP address.
source: "https://nodecraft.com/support/games/project-zomboid/how-to-kick-or-ban-players-on-a-project-zomboid-server"
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published: "2026-08-16T23:39:36.298Z"
updated: "2026-08-16T23:39:36.298Z"
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# How to Kick or Ban Players on a Project Zomboid Server

Moderating your Project Zomboid server starts with knowing how to remove disruptive players. This guide explains how to kick or ban players from the server console, including optional commands for providing a reason or blocking an entire IP address.

In this guide we are going to go over how you can kick or ban players from your Project Zomboid server.

## How to Kick a Player

1. Open your [Dashboard](https://app.nodecraft.com/dashboard)
2. Locate your Project Zomboid server and click on the **Panel **button.
3. Once on your panel, click on the **Console **tab.
4. Once on the console, type **kickuser <Username>**. Optionally you can add **-r <reason>** to give a reason to the kicked player.

  ![Code editor line showing a kick command: kickuser ExamplePlayer -r Enter a reason here, with red squiggly underlines.](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/445x46/95adfb4d32/project-zomboid-console-kick-player.png/m/)

## How to Ban a Player

1. Open your [Dashboard](https://app.nodecraft.com/dashboard)
2. Locate your Project Zomboid server and click on the **Panel **button.
3. Once on your panel, click on the **Console **tab.
4. Once on the console type **banuser <username>**. Optionally you can add **-ip** after the username to stop all players from the IP from joining the server. You can also add **-r** at the end to provide a reason.

  ![Terminal/console line with a ban command: banuser ExamplePlayer -ip -r Example Reason.](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/448x56/4aa1b46543/project-zomboid-console-ban-player.png/m/)

## Conclusion

You can now kick or ban players from your server. Kicking or banning are some very important tools to moderate your server.