Palworld 1.0 server settings: every setting explained

This page lists every key in the Palworld 1.0.5 server’s own default settings file, with its default and what it does. Settings live in PalWorldSettings.ini. They are read when the server starts. A world with its own WorldOption.sav can ignore some of them (see below).

Pocketpair’s settings page is for version 1.0.4. A row marked “Not documented” has no Pocketpair description, so only its default is given. Defaults are from the 1.0.5 server’s own DefaultPalWorldSettings.ini; a new Loafhosts server starts with them.

RCON is deprecated and the REST API replaces it. The game’s API is how the panel talks to the game. The panel keeps it on while the Admin password is 16 characters or more (a new server gets a 20-character one). CrossplayPlatforms replaces AllowConnectPlatform. Not checked on 1.0.5 as of 4 November 2026: which keys are new in 1.0.

How Palworld actually reads its settings

1. The file. The server reads Pal/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/PalWorldSettings.ini. Pocketpair: “Editing DefaultPalWorldSettings.ini will not affect the changes.” With server mods on, this file and GameUserSettings.ini are in another folder under Pal/Saved/Config. Open Config in Files and use the folder that holds them, or use the Config Editor, which always finds them.
2. One line. The settings sit on one line, OptionSettings=(Key=Value,Key=Value,...), under the section line [/Script/Pal.PalGameWorldSettings], as the game’s own DefaultPalWorldSettings.ini shows. Booleans are True and False. Text is in double quotes. A few keys alone are not valid ini: where this page shows some, change those pairs inside the one OptionSettings=(...) line and keep the commas.
3. When. The game reads the file when it starts. A change needs a restart.
4. The game writes it back. When the server stops, the game writes the file again with what it loaded. Edit it only while the server is stopped.
5. WorldOption.sav wins for what it holds. A world with its own WorldOption.sav (Own settings on the World page) ignores the Config Editor’s Game settings for the settings that file holds. The server name, passwords, player limit and ports still come from Server settings: the panel writes them before every start. See WorldOption.sav.
6. The Config Editor. The Config Editor page edits these settings at any time. Saving while the server runs waits for the next start, and a change still waiting is written into the file then, over the same setting in a hand edit. Prefer Edit the whole file as text to editing the file in Files. See the Config Editor.
7. The spelling. The game spells four keys “Decreace”: PlayerStomachDecreaceRate, PlayerStaminaDecreaceRate, PalStomachDecreaceRate, PalStaminaDecreaceRate. Copy them exactly.

Server and identity settings

Before every start the panel writes the first five keys below and those marked “Panel”. A hand edit to them is replaced. RCONPort is the exception: the panel turns RCON off and leaves the port unused. Default is what the game ships with, not what a Loafhosts server runs.

The Join password is 1 to 30 and the Admin password 5 to 30 letters, digits, - and _ (any other character is refused when you save). An empty Join password means no password. The game’s API needs an admin password of 16 or more. Both apply at the next start. Anyone who may change the startup settings or read the files can see both: PalWorldSettings.ini holds them as they are.

The five Not documented rows above, from bIsMultiplay to BanListURL, are under Advanced in Game settings.

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Advanced rows are named from their keys: DenyTechnologyList (1), the AutoTransferMaster keys (2), BlockRespawnTime (3).

Rates and progression

A rate is a multiplier: 1 is the game’s own, 2 is twice as much.

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Choose Game settings (1). Rates sit in the World and Pals groups, such as Experience (2) and Capture chance (3).

The Config Editor accepts 0 to 100 for rates. See Palworld experience rate.

World settings

Randomizer changes apply to a new world.

Bases, building and guilds

While Reset abandoned guilds is on, Loafhosts standby does not stop the server.

PvP settings

Pocketpair calls PvP a trial feature without support. To turn it on set bIsPvP, bEnablePlayerToPlayerDamage and bEnableDefenseOtherGuildPlayer to True.

See a PvP server.

Performance and stability settings

PalSpawnNumRate, BaseCampMaxNumInGuild, BaseCampWorkerMaxNum and AutoSaveSpan also affect load.

Preset recipes

Inside the one OptionSettings=(...) line, change these pairs and keep the commas between them. Pocketpair’s PvP page gives these values for a PvP server:

bAllowEnhanceStat_Health=False
bAllowEnhanceStat_Attack=False
bEnableFastTravelOnlyBaseCamp=True
bExistPlayerAfterLogout=True
bIsStartLocationSelectByMap=True
DeathPenalty=All
bCanPickupOtherGuildDeathPenaltyDrop=True
bBuildAreaLimit=True
GuildPlayerMaxNum=4
BaseCampMaxNumInGuild=2
MaxBuildingLimitNum=1000
GuildRejoinCooldownMinutes=60.0
BlockRespawnTime=5.0
RespawnPenaltyDurationThreshold=1800.0
RespawnPenaltyTimeScale=2.0

Add the three PvP keys above. Its DenyTechnologyList blocks GrapplingGun, GrapplingGun2, GrapplingGun3, GrapplingGun4, GrapplingGun5, GuildChest and seven SkillUnlock_ ids. The full line is on Pocketpair’s PvP page.

Where the settings go: in the Config Editor choose the matching rows, or Edit the whole file as text. Then restart.

If a setting does nothing

• The world has its own WorldOption.sav that holds the setting.
• You edited the file while the server ran.
• The key is one the panel owns, such as ServerName.
• You edited DefaultPalWorldSettings.ini.
• The server has not restarted.

More about the game: Palworld servers.

Sources: docs.palworldgame.com: Configuration, docs.palworldgame.com: Pvp, docs.palworldgame.com: Technologyids, docs.palworldgame.com: About server

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