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title: How to Add an Admin on a Space Engineers Server
description: "Learn how to add an admin to your Space Engineers server! "
source: "https://nodecraft.com/support/games/space-engineers/how-to-add-an-admin-on-a-space-engineers-server"
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published: "2026-11-09T20:53:00.841Z"
updated: "2026-11-09T20:53:00.841Z"
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# How to Add an Admin on a Space Engineers Server

Learn how to add an admin to your Space Engineers server! 

In this guide we are going to cover how you can add a Steam player as an administrator on your Space Engineers server. Adding an administrator gives that player access to admin tools to help manage your server.

## Adding an Administrator

1. Open your [Dashboard](https://app.nodecraft.com/dashboard)
2. Locate your Space Engineers server and click on the **Manage** button.
3. Stop your server before editing the configuration file.
4. Under Files & Backup, click on **Server Files**.

  ![Dark Space Engineers server UI showing offline status; left menu lists Overview, Console, Game Settings, Content & Installer, Files & Backups, Server Files (highlighted).](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/337x594/a583c7a215/space-engineers-console-server-files.png/m/)
5. Under the **Shortcuts** section in the file browser, open **SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg** by double clicking on it.

  ![Dark server files interface with action buttons; left shortcuts include a config; right pane lists folders like _CommonRedist and .cache.](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/650x419/6c20921705/space-engineers-console-ftp-shortcuts.png/m/)
6. Near the bottom of the file, locate the **Administrators** section which should be a line like this: </Administrators>

  ![Code editor showing an XML server configuration with ports, Administrators tag, and server name.](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/432x140/949405f745/space-engineers-console-file-editing-administrators.png/m/)
7. Replace the one line with:

  <Administrators>

  <unsignedLong>SteamID64 Here</unsignedLong>

  </Administrators>  
  ![XML server config showing Administrators with SteamID64 Here; nearby are ServerPort, ServerName, WorldName, and Banned tags.](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/612x186/89b47c7955/space-engineers-console-administrators-added.png/m/)
8. If you need the SteamID you can look it at [SteamID.net](http://steamid.net)
9. Click on **Save Changes** to save the file.

  ![Dark server file manager with Upload (green) and blue action buttons; bottom shows Edit File: /config/SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg and Save Changes.](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/1030x232/71aa2f5e29/space-engineers-console-ftp-save-changes.png/m/)
10. Start your server to apply the change.

## Conclusion

You have now added a Steam player as an administrator on your Space Engineers server. That player can join the server and use admin tools to help manage it. If you need more than one admin you can duplicate the **unsignedLong** line and add more SteamIDs.