How To Add an Admin to Your Don’t Starve Together Server

1. Log In to Your Panel


2. Navigate to the ‘server’ Folder

You should create a new file called ‘adminlist.txt’ in

/home/container/DoNotStarveTogether/config/server

Inside you should type the Klei ID of the person you want to add as an admin.

Creating new file in server documents
Adding Klei ID to a list of admins and creating adminlist.txt file
Creation of adminlist.txt file

3. Find Your Klei ID

You can find your Klei account information here: Klei Account

Klei Account Info with Klei ID of account you are logged into

4. Find Other Players Klei IDs

When you are in-game, you can type the following command in your server console, to get other players ids:

for i, v in ipairs(TheNet:GetClientTable()) do
    print(v.name, v.userid)
end
Typing command in-game to get all current players id's in console
Checking the console for players Id's

5. Restart Your Server

Select the ‘Console’ tab and then select the ‘Restart’ button. Keep an eye out for any error messages relating to your server token.

Cybrancee panel console page for Don't Starve Together

6. Start Your Game and Select ‘Browse Games’

Here you should find your game by searching your server name, then join it.

Don't Starve Together start screen, with browse games outlined
Searching Server from Inside Game by Server Name

Once you are inside the game, you should see a star next to the players icon indicating that person is an admin.

Star next to player indicates that player is an admin of this server

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