To kick a player, open the Players page, open Actions for (name) on their row, choose Kick, and press Kick in the box. They leave the server now and can join again. A kick needs the panel tools to be running.
A kick only removes them for the moment, and it is not written to any list. To keep someone out, ban them.
Kick from the Players page
- Open the Players page of your server.
- Under On now, find the player. Open the three-dots menu on their row. Its name is Actions for (name).
- Choose Kick (1).
- In the box, type a reason if you want one. It is optional.
- Press Kick.
- Kick
- Ban
The box is titled Kick (name). It says “They leave the server now and can join again.”
- Box title
- Reason
- Kick
The kick happens at once. The player is sent out of the game, and the panel shows a green message that they were kicked. Not checked with a player on 1.210 as of 15 November 2026.
What the reason does
The Reason box says “Reason (optional, kept in the server’s activity)”. It can be up to 200 characters on one line.
- It is not shown to the player. They are only removed.
- It is kept in the server’s Activity tab (Settings, Activity), so other people on your team can see why.
- It also shows under What happened on the Players page, after the sentence “(name) was kicked.”
The Console shows a line tagged Kick too.
Why Kick is missing
The Kick item only shows when:
- The panel tools are running. They are a plugin (an add-on the server loads) that Loafhosts makes. With them off, On now lists names only, with no menu. See the panel tools. On a new server players already need Experimental mode in their game, so the tools add nothing they must change.
- The server is running, and the player is on it now. You cannot kick someone who has left.
- Your role has permission to moderate players. The owner of the server has every permission. Other people get theirs from a role: on the organization page, Settings, Access, Manage roles.
Without the tools you can still ban. Under Everyone the world knows, the row menu offers Ban, and for someone the world does not know you can add a SteamID64 to Bans. A SteamID64 is the 17-digit number of a Steam account. A ban made this way turns them away from the next start.
Kick in the game
A player with the Moderator rank or higher can kick without the panel. In the game, press F3 to open the Multiplayer screen, pick the player, and choose Kick. The game describes it as forcing them to log out now, and they can come back. To give someone that rank, see player ranks. Not checked with a player on 1.210 as of 15 November 2026.
If it does not work
- “that player is not on the server”. They left before you pressed Kick. Reload the page.
- “the server is not running”. Start the server first.
- “the panel’s tools are not running yet: they load when the server starts”. The tools are on but not loaded. Wait until the Console shows
Game ready, or restart the server. - “the game did not answer; it may be busy saving, so try again in a moment”. Press Kick again after a few seconds.
- They can join again. That is what a kick does. Not checked how soon after a kick the game lets a player back in. Use a ban to keep them out.
More about the game: Space Engineers servers.