You can let a friend run your Palworld server without sharing your account or the admin password. Invite them to your organization and give them a role that covers this server. They sign in with their own account and see only what the role allows.
How access works
Access to a server comes from your organization. You make a role, choose the server it covers and tick what it may do. Then you give the role to a person. The server’s Access list shows who can reach it.
A friend with a role needs no in-game admin rights for most jobs. The panel’s Players page can kick, ban, message everyone and save the world.
Make a role for a helper
- Open your organization page and find Roles.
- Choose New role and give it a name, such as “Moderator”.
- Under Game server access, choose Which servers: Every server in this organization, or Only the servers chosen below, then tick this server.
- Tick the server permissions the helper needs. See the table below.
- Choose Save changes.
If you tick no server permission, the role opens no server at all. The page warns you about this.
The role editor lists each permission by its key, under a group heading: the players. keys under Players, the live-map. keys under the live map group, the control. keys under Power and console, the startup. keys under Startup, and the file keys under Files.
| The helper should be able to | Tick |
|---|---|
| See who is on, the chat and the ban list | players.read |
| Kick, ban, lift bans, use the whitelist | players.moderate |
| Send a message to everyone, use Save now | players.game |
| Do all of the three above | players.manage |
| See the addresses players connect from | players.ips |
| See where players are on the map | live-map.read |
| See bases, guilds and where offline players were | live-map.private |
| Type words into the Console | control.console |
| Restart the server, including Restart with a warning | control.restart |
| See the Mods page | startup.read |
| Change startup settings, and see the passwords | startup.update |
| Open files | the keys under Files |
players.manage does not include players.ips: addresses are personal data, so give that one on its own. Turning server mods on or off needs settings.change-game.
Invite the friend
- On the organization page, find People and choose Manage members.
- Choose Invite.
- Type their Email address and choose the Roles they should get.
- Choose Create invitation.
If the panel sent no email, it shows an Invitation link once. Pass it to your friend yourself. It cannot be shown again.
A role can hold only what you hold yourself, so you cannot hand out more than you have. A role with Full access can do everything you can on the organization and every server, except delete the organization. Use it only for people you trust completely.
See who has access
Open the server, then Settings, then Access. It lists the owner and everyone who reaches the server through a role. If a role gives nothing on this server, the page lists it under “Roles that give nothing on this server” and says why.
Keep the admin password to yourself
You never need to tell a helper the admin password. In Palworld, the admin password lets someone use admin commands in the game (see make yourself admin).
Anyone who may change the server’s startup settings, or read its files, can see both passwords: PalWorldSettings.ini holds them as they are. Be careful with these permissions:
- Files can read the settings file.
startup.updatesees the passwords. The Startup page itself shows only a note that points to the Config Editor.control.consolelets a person type the same admin words the Players page uses, such as kicking and banning, even without the Players permissions.control.restartalso allows a schedule’s restart step to start a stopped server. The permission’s own text says it “permits starting the server if it is offline”.
Give them only to people you trust. To change the admin password afterwards, see the admin password.
If it does not work
- The friend sees no Players page. Their role has no players permission, or it does not cover this server. Open Access to check.
- The Map shows no bases. The role lacks the live map’s private permission. Tick it.
- A server you add later is not reachable. If the role lists chosen servers, add the new one, or set the role to every server.
- Kick and ban do nothing. 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). Set a longer one in the Config Editor and restart.
More about the game: Palworld servers.
Sources: docs.palworldgame.com: Commands