How to Ban Players on Your Colony Survival Server

In Colony Survival you lock disruptive players out through the blacklist of your server. In addition you can use a whitelist to open your server only to specific players from the start. You control both directly in the in-game chat.

Colony Survival has no kick command

There is no command to temporarily throw a player off the server. The Kick button in the game belongs to the colony management and only removes a co-owner from that colony – the player stays on the server. Anyone who has to leave the server needs to be blocked through the blacklist.

Note

You need permissions of the god group to manage the blacklist and whitelist. See Add Admin.

Ban a player

1. Open the chat
   Press T in the game to open the chat.

2. Add the player to the blacklist
   Enter the following command – either with the player name or with the SteamID64:

   /blacklist add Sam

   /blacklist add 76561198012345678

   Tip

   It is best to use the SteamID64. It always stays the same, even if the player changes their name. Put names containing spaces in quotation marks.

3. Verify the ban
   Display the current list and check whether the player is on it:

   /blacklist

The next time banned players try to connect, they get a message that the connection was refused because they are blacklisted.

Lift a ban

/blacklist remove 76561198012345678

You can clear the entire list with:

/blacklist clear

Open the server only to specific players

The whitelist turns the principle around: as soon as it is in use, only listed players can join your server. Everyone else gets a message that they are not whitelisted.

/whitelist add 76561198012345678

/whitelist remove 76561198012345678

/whitelist clear

Warning

Add yourself and all of your fellow players before relying on the whitelist – otherwise you lock yourself out of your own world.

Command overview

Command	Description
/blacklist	Shows all banned players
/blacklist add <player>	Locks a player out
/blacklist remove <player>	Lifts the ban again
/blacklist clear	Clears the blacklist
/whitelist	Shows the whitelist
/whitelist add <player>	Adds a player to the whitelist
/whitelist remove <player>	Removes a player from the whitelist
/whitelist clear	Clears the whitelist

Note

Both the player name and the SteamID64 work as <player>. If a player is currently offline, always use the SteamID64.

Note

The server stores the blacklist and the whitelist as files in the savegame directory. Their exact names and structure depend on the game version – so maintain the lists through the in-game commands rather than editing the files directly.