How to Kick and Ban Players on Your Unturned Server

You remove players from an Unturned server using commands – either in the console of the dashboard or, as an admin, directly in the in-game chat. The commands take effect immediately, no restart is needed.

Requirement

To use the commands in the in-game chat you need admin rights. Here you can find a guide on how to add an admin. In the console of the dashboard the commands always work.

Tip

Here you can find a guide on how to find a player's SteamID64.

Enter commands

1. Open the console or chat
   Open the console in the dashboard of your server or – as an admin in the game – the chat.

2. Enter the command
   In the console you enter the command without a prefix, in the in-game chat with a leading / or @:

   kick Sam/AFK

   /kick Sam/AFK

Parameters are separated by a slash

Unlike many other games, Unturned separates the parameters with a / instead of a space. So ban Sam Griefing does not work – the correct form is ban Sam/Griefing.

Kick a player

kick <SteamID64|PlayerName>/<Reason>

The player is disconnected from the server but can rejoin at any time. If you leave out the reason, the player is kicked with the reason "unspecified".

Example

kick 76561198012345678/AFK

Ban a player

ban <SteamID64|PlayerName>/<Reason>/<Duration in seconds>

The player is kicked from the server and cannot connect again for the given duration.

Example

ban 76561198012345678/Griefing/86400

This bans the player for one day (86,400 seconds).

Leaving out the duration

If you do not specify a duration, the player is banned for 31,536,000 seconds – which equals 365 days. For a longer ban, enter a correspondingly larger value in seconds.

Duration	Value in seconds
1 hour	3600
1 day	86400
7 days	604800
30 days	2592000
365 days	31536000

Lift a ban

unban <SteamID64>

Warning

Unbanning works with the SteamID64 only – not with the player name, because the player is no longer on the server. Make a note of the SteamID64 before you ban someone.

Command overview

Command	Description
kick <SteamID64|PlayerName>/<Reason>	Disconnect a player from the server
ban <SteamID64|PlayerName>/<Reason>/<Seconds>	Ban a player
unban <SteamID64>	Lift a ban
admin <SteamID64|PlayerName>	Make a player an admin
unadmin <SteamID64|PlayerName>	Revoke admin rights
save	Save the world
shutdown	Save the world and shut the server down

Ban list

Maintain the ban list with the commands

Bans are stored in /Servers/<ServerID>/Server/Blacklist.dat. Always ban and unban using the ban and unban commands so the list stays valid. If you want to lift all bans at once, you can also delete the file while the server is stopped.

Open the server to specific players only

Whitelist

Unturned also has the configuration command Whitelisted for Commands.dat. With it, only permitted players can join your server. How players are added to that list is not officially documented – if you simply want to keep your server private, a server password is the easier option.