A Conan Exiles server keeps its bans in a file called blacklist.txt. The Bans card on the Players page shows the same list.
The list belongs to the game, not to the panel. The panel asks the game to add or remove a ban, and it never writes a ban into the file itself.
The Bans card
Open the Players page and find Bans. Its hint says: “The game’s own ban list. A ban needs the server running, and the game may refuse someone who is not on: it says so.”
- Each banned player is a row with the button Lift.
- “Nobody is banned.” means the list is empty.
- The count beside the title is how many bans the list holds.
- The Bans card
- Lift a ban
To lift a ban, see unban a player. To add one by id, see ban by platform id.
While the server is off
With the server off, the card still lists the names kept in blacklist.txt, but Lift is greyed out: “Lifting a ban needs the server running.” A new ban cannot be made either, because the game takes bans only while it runs. The page also shows who is on and the characters only while the server runs. If the server is running but the game does not answer yet, the page says so. It answers about half a minute after the start.
The file
The game keeps the list in ConanSandbox/Saved/blacklist.txt. Open Files and go to that folder to see it. The game reads the ban list and the whitelist when the server starts.
The panel reads the file like this: one id on each line, an optional :name after the id, and lines that start with # or ; are skipped. That is how the panel reads it. What the game itself writes on a ban was not confirmed from a real ban, and whether a line you add by hand is honoured at the next start has not been checked. Use the Players page to change bans.
The whitelist lives beside it in whitelist.txt. See the whitelist.
If it does not work
- Bans shows nothing but you banned someone. The game may have refused the ban. The panel then showed “the game said:” and the game’s own answer.
- The game refused a ban. A player who is not on may be refused. The hint on the card warns of this.
- You cannot see Bans or its buttons. Your role may not allow moderating players. Ask the owner of the server.
More about the game: Conan Exiles servers.