To become admin in Palworld, join your server, press Enter and type /AdminPassword followed by a space and the server’s admin password. Then the admin commands work in chat.
Find the admin password
- Open your server in the panel and go to the Config Editor.
- Open Server settings, then the card Passwords.
- Find Admin password (1). Use the eye button beside it to show the password, or the copy button to copy it.
- Admin password
- Join password
A new Loafhosts server gets a random 20-character admin password. You can change it there. A change applies at the next start. Use only letters, digits, - and _, 5 to 30 of them. The panel refuses a password with any other character when you save.
If you set your own, make it 16 characters or more. The game’s API is how the panel talks to the game. With a shorter admin password the panel switches the API off, and the Players page, the Map and the Console commands stop working.
The admin password is not the Join password (2). The join password lets people in. The admin password gives admin rights.
Become admin in the game
- Join the server.
- Press Enter to open chat.
- Type
/AdminPassword (your admin password): the word, a space, then the password. - Press Enter.
If it worked, the admin commands now work for you. Try /Info.
Not checked on 1.0.5 as of 4 November 2026: whether Xbox and PlayStation 5 players can type chat commands.
Admin rights last for that play session. Whether the game keeps them after you leave and rejoin is not checked on 1.0.5 as of 4 November 2026, so type /AdminPassword again after you rejoin.
What admin lets you do
You can use the commands on Pocketpair’s commands page:
- Kick, ban and unban players with
/KickPlayer,/BanPlayerand/UnBanPlayer. - Send a message to everyone with
/Broadcast. - Save the world with
/Save. - See who is on with
/ShowPlayers, and server details with/Info. - Teleport to a player or bring a player to you with
/TeleportToPlayerand/TeleportToMe. - Switch to spectator mode with
/ToggleSpectate. - Shut the server down with
/Shutdown, or force stop it with/DoExit.
Palworld has no admin command to give items, Pals or experience. The full list is in server commands.
You may not need it
The panel does most admin jobs for you, with no admin rights in the game. On the Players page you can use Message everyone, Save now, Kick and Ban. The Console takes the same words without the slash.
You need the in-game admin password only for what the panel cannot do: teleporting and spectating.
Keep the password safe
Share the admin password only with people you trust. An admin can ban players and shut the server down. If you only want a friend to help with kicks and bans, give them a role instead. See let a friend help run your server.
Anyone who may change the server’s startup settings, or read its files, can see both passwords: PalWorldSettings.ini holds them as they are. To change it, see the admin password.
If it does not work
- Nothing happens when you type the command. Start the message with
/and press Enter. Check the space between/AdminPasswordand the password. - The password is refused. Check it in the Config Editor. If you changed it, restart the server so the game reads the new one.
- Kick and ban from the panel do nothing. The game’s API is off while the admin password is shorter than 16 characters. Set a longer one and restart.
More about the game: Palworld servers.
Sources: docs.palworldgame.com: Commands, docs.palworldgame.com: Configuration