Become an admin at 7 Days to Die

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What can an admin do at 7 Days to Die?

The administrator determines the rules of the game on their own game server for 7 Days to Die. They can execute certain console commands, create a blacklist and whitelist and thus determine who can and cannot play. The status of an admin is very advantageous for unrestricted access during the game.

How do I become an administrator in 7 Days to Die?

To become an administrator in 7 Day to Die, you need two things: your Steam64 ID and the serveradmin.xml configuration file of your game server.

1. find out your Steam64 ID
2. now open and edit the Serveradmin.xml on your server
   1. you will find the file Serveradmin.xml in the directory saves
   2. open the file Serveradmin.xml for editing with a text editor
3. search for the line <adminTools>
   1. everything between <adminTools> and </adminTools> is recognized by the game server as code. These lines control the status definition of the players.
4. add admin or moderators using the Steam 64 ID and add authorization level
   1. each administrator and moderator must be added individually.
5. here you can see an example of how an admin and a moderator have been added:

<adminTools>
<admins>
<admin steamID="YOUR STEAM64ID" permission_level="0" />
</admins>
<moderators>
<moderator steamID="THE STEAM64ID OF YOUR MOD" permission_level="100" />
</moderators>
</adminTools>

As you can see, the permission level of your Steam64 ID has been set to 0. This means you have the highest authorization level and have unrestricted access.

The authorization level of your moderator has the value 100. This means that he has fewer authorizations than the admin.

6. once you have entered all the configurations, you can save the changes in Serveradmin.xml
7. and finally restart the server. The changes you have made will then be active.

How do the authorization levels work?

Authorization levels can be assigned with a value between 0 and 1000.

The lower the value, the higher the authorization and vice versa.

If no value is assigned, stored users are automatically assigned the value 1000.

Ideally, the administrator should have the value 0. This means they are not subject to any restrictions. Moderators who manage the server should have a higher level to restrict access and server commands, including the value 100, 200, 300 etc.

If console commands are not defined in the serveradmin.xml, i.e. assigned to a specific value, they automatically have the authorization level '0' and can only be executed by the administrator. If no user is stored in the Seerveradmin.xml, nobody on the server can execute the command.

Admin Commands

Now that you have admin rights, you are well equipped to deal with the available admin commands.