How to Add an Admin on Your The Cenozoic Era Server

On your The Cenozoic Era server you grant admin rights through the configuration file Game.ini. That is where you enter the players who become owners and therefore get access to the admin commands in the game.

Add owners in the Game.ini

1. Stop the server
   Open the dashboard of your server and stop it before you edit the configuration.

2. Open the configuration file
   Connect to your server via SFTP and open the file:

   /TheCenozoicEra/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini

3. Find the "Admin Setup" section
   Scroll to the end of the file. There you will find the section with the empty Owners= entry:

   [/Game/GameCore/DefaultGame/GameInstance/TCEGameInstance.TCEGameInstance_C]
   
   Owners=

4. Enter the player
   Add the Steam NetID of the player who should become an owner behind Owners=.

5. Add more owners
   For every additional owner you add another line with Owners=. The entry may be repeated as often as you need owners.

6. Save and start
   Save the file and start your server. The file is read at startup – without a restart the change has no effect.

Note

According to the comment in the Game.ini you enter a Steam NetID at Owners=. An owner then has access to the commands and a highlighted name color in the game.

Only Owners= is documented

Besides owners, the comment in the file also mentions admins and moderators, but the template only contains the Owners= entry. The key names for admins and moderators and the format they have to be entered in are not documented – do not enter anything there on a guess.

Name colors of the roles

The "Colors" section of the Game.ini defines the color each role is displayed in inside the game. The values are given as hex sRGB:

Entry	Role	Default value
OwnerColor	Owner	FF1CFAFF (purple)
AdminColor	Admin	FFD000FF (yellow)
ModeratorColor	Moderator	25FFF8FF (blue)
PlayerColor	Player	FFFFFFFF (white)
VIPColor	VIP	00FFB0FF (teal)
SupporterColor	Supporter	FFA100FF (orange)

Note

VIP and supporter are purely cosmetic roles for players you want to highlight. Owner, admin and moderator are the roles for server administration.

Admin command overview

Admins control the server through chat commands in the game. As the target you always enter the username or the Net ID of the player.

Command	Description
/users	Forces the display of name tags
/kick <Username or Net ID>	Disconnect a player from the server
/ban <Username or Net ID>	Ban a player
/unban <Username or Net ID>	Lift a ban
/slay <Username or Net ID>	Kill the given player
/tp <Username or Net ID>	Teleport to the given player
/bring <Username or Net ID>	Bring the given player to you
/heal <Username or Net ID>	Heal a player
/grow <Username or Net ID>	Grow the creature of the player
/give <Username or Net ID>	Give something to a player
/giveprogressionpoints <Points> <Username or Net ID>	Hand out progression points
/weather <Weather>	Set the weather
/time <Time>	Set the time of day

Note

What exactly /give hands out is not documented. If in doubt, test it on an empty server before you use it while players are online.

Set the weather

The following values are documented for /weather:

Clear, Partly Cloudy, Cloudy, Overcast, Foggy, Light Rain, Rain, Storm

Set the time of day

/time expects a value between 0 and 2400, where 1200 is noon:

/time 1200

Value	Effect
0 – 2400	Set the time of day
-1	Freeze the time of day
-2	Unfreeze the time of day again

Caution

Some values in the Game.ini are overwritten from the settings in your dashboard on every server start. Change those values there instead of in the file – otherwise your changes are gone again after the next start.

Note

The configuration folder is called WindowsServer on your Linux server as well. The Cenozoic Era only ships a Windows server binary, which runs on Linux servers through a compatibility layer. A folder named LinuxServer does not exist.

Tip

To learn how to remove players from your server and lift bans again, see Kick & Ban Players.