One row controls the sandstorm: Enable Sandstorm. Funcom describes it as allowing “sandstorms to periodically sweep across the Exiled Lands”. Funcom’s default is On. Turn it Off and the game stops allowing them. In ConanSandbox/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/ServerSettings.ini, under [ServerSettings], the key is EnableSandStorm. It is not one of the six settings Funcom marks as needing a start, so on a running server the panel saves it to the running game. Not checked on Enhanced, server build 25792439 as of 13 November 2026: whether the game re-reads it live.
In the panel
- Open the Config Editor for the server.
- Choose the source Server settings.
- Find the Day, night and weather group. A sandstorm is weather, so the row is there with the day and night settings.
- Set Enable Sandstorm to On or Off.
- A bar reads “Unsaved changes: (n)” with Discard and Save. Choose Save.
- Enable Sandstorm
On a running server the page says “Saved and in use now.” or “Saved and in use now, except (names): those apply at the next start.” On a stopped server it says “Saved. The changes apply when the server starts.”
If the row does not show, type Sandstorm in the search box. The panel writes an On/Off row as True or False in ServerSettings.ini. Edit that file by hand only while the server is stopped: the game writes it again when it stops.
The maelstrom is a different setting
The sandstorm belongs to the Exiled Lands. The Isle of Siptah has its own storm, the maelstrom, and its own rows in the Isle of Siptah group. Enable Sandstorm does not control it. See the maelstrom and Elder Things.
Take it back
Set Enable Sandstorm to On and save.
If it does not work
- The panel says the server is starting or stopping. Wait until it has finished, then save.
- The panel says the server is not answering yet. Try again once it has finished starting, or stop the server and save.
- Save is refused because the file changed. Someone else saved first. Reload the page to see the current values, then make your change again.
- You wanted to turn off the island’s storm. Use Enable Maelstrom in the Isle of Siptah group.
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