How to Kick and Ban Players on Your Nightingale Server

On a Nightingale server you remove players directly in the game through the social menu. There are no console or chat commands for kicking and banning.

Note

You have to be authenticated as an admin in the game for this. See Add Admin.

Kick a player

1. Enable admin mode
   Press Esc, select Admin Mode: OFF, enter the admin password and confirm with Confirm.

2. Open the social menu
   Press the O key in the game to open the Social Screen.

3. Select the player
   Find the player you want to remove in the list.

4. Remove
   Select Remove and confirm with Confirm.

The player is disconnected from the server but can rejoin at any time.

Ban a player

1. Open the social menu
   As an authenticated admin, press the O key.

2. Select the player
   Find the player you want to lock out in the list.

3. Ban
   Select Ban and confirm with Confirm.

The player is immediately thrown off the server and can no longer connect.

Note

Nightingale has no time-limited bans. A ban stays in place until you lift it.

Lift a ban

There is no way to unban someone in the game – you edit the file holding the server state instead.

1. Stop the server
   Stop your server via the dashboard. The file is written on shutdown and read on startup.

2. Connect via SFTP
   Connect to your server via SFTP.

3. Open ServerState.ini
   Open the following file:

   /NWX/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/ServerState.ini

4. Remove the entry
   Look for the line starting with Bans=. Inside the brackets, delete the entry of the player you want to unban. All other entries and the brackets themselves stay in place.

5. Start the server
   Save the file and start your server.

Warning

Create a backup before editing, or download a copy of the file. A corrupted ServerState.ini can prevent the server from loading its state. If you find neither the file nor a Bans= line, nobody has been banned on your server yet – both are only created with the first ban.

Lift all bans at once

If you delete the entire /NWX/Saved/Config/ folder, the complete server state is reset and with it every ban. The server recreates the folder on the next start.

No console commands

Warning

Nightingale offers no RCON and no chat commands for server administration. The console in the dashboard only shows the server's output and does not accept commands. Kicking and banning happen exclusively through the Social Screen in the game.

No whitelist

Warning

Nightingale has no whitelist feature. If you want to restrict your server to certain players, set a server password in the dashboard and only share it with those players.