To unban a player on your Arma 3 server, open the Players page, find the player in the Bans card, and choose Lift. The ban is removed from BattlEye’s list at once.
What a ban is
Arma 3 uses BattlEye, the game’s anti-cheat, to keep the ban list. A ban belongs to a player’s BattlEye GUID, which is a 32-character code that stays the same between visits. See find a player’s GUID. A ban can also belong to an address. The panel shows both in the same list.
Lift a ban
- Open the Players page of your server. The server must be running. BattlEye answers the panel only while the game is up.
- Find the card Bans. Its title shows how many bans there are, such as Bans (3).
- Find the player. If the panel has seen the player on your server in the last 90 days, you see their name. If not, you see their GUID.
- Choose Lift on that row.
- Bans card
- Lift
Choose Lift (2) on the row in the Bans card (1).
The panel asks BattlEye to remove the ban, then reads the list again. If the row is gone, it says Ban removed.
Read the rows
Each row ends with how long the ban lasts:
- for good: the ban has no end.
- (number) min left: a timed ban. It ends by itself when the minutes run out.
- ended: a timed ban that has run out. It stays in the list until you lift it. Lift works on it too, and it cleans the list.
If the ban had a reason, the reason is shown before the length.
An address ban reads An address when your role is not allowed to see addresses.
If the card says Nobody is banned., there is nothing to lift.
By hand
If you run the server yourself, BattlEye lists bans with ans and lifts one with emoveBan (number), where the number is the ban’s place in that list. See BattlEye on the Bohemia wiki.
If it does not work
- There is no Lift button. Your role on the organization may not allow banning and kicking. Ask the owner to change the role.
- “The server is stopped” and the Bans card is empty. Start the server. The panel reads the bans through BattlEye, which runs only while the game runs.
- “BattlEye is not answering yet”. The server is still starting. Wait a minute and look again.
- “That ban is not in the list any more.” Someone already lifted it. Reload the page.
- “Removal sent, but the ban is still listed.” BattlEye did not take the removal. Choose Lift once more.
- An address ban will not lift. Lifting an address ban needs a role that is allowed to see addresses.
To ban someone again later, see ban a player.
Not checked on 2.22.154089 as of 13 November 2026: what a lifted player sees when they join, because the panel’s kicks and bans have not been tried with a real player.
Sources: Bohemia wiki: BattlEye