How to Add Admins to Your Valheim Server on CloudNord

Admins on a Valheim server can kick, ban and unban players, save the world and skip the night from the in-game console. Admin rights come from a small text file called adminlist.txt. This guide shows where that file lives on a CloudNord server and exactly what to put in it.

1. Get the SteamID64 of the Player

• A SteamID64 is the 17-digit number that starts with 7656, for example 76561198123456789.
• Visit steamid.io and enter the player's Steam profile link or custom URL. Copy the number shown as steamID64.
• If the profile link already looks like steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656..., that number is the SteamID64.
• You can also have the player join your server and open the Console tab: look for a line that reads Got connection SteamID 7656.... The number after it is their SteamID64.

2. Open the Right Folder in Files

• Log in to CloudNord, go to Services and open your Valheim server.
• Click the Files tab.
• Open the folders .config, then unity3d, then IronGate, then Valheim. The full path is .config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim/.
• This is where the server keeps its worlds (the worlds_local folder) and its three lists: adminlist.txt, bannedlist.txt and permittedlist.txt.

Important: an adminlist.txt in the main folder of your server (next to valheim_server.x86_64) is ignored. If you created one there before, the server never read it. Use the file in the Valheim folder instead.

3. Edit adminlist.txt

• Click adminlist.txt to open it. If it isn't there, click New File while you are inside the Valheim folder and name it adminlist.txt.
• Add each admin twice, each on its own line: once as the plain SteamID64, and once with V_ in front of it. Current Valheim versions need the V_ line, and the plain number alone does not give admin rights.
• Keep the comment line at the top if it's there, and don't add any other kind of entry. Example for two admins:

// List admin players ID  ONE per line
76561198123456789
V_76561198123456789
76561198098765432
V_76561198098765432

• Press Enter after the last line so the file ends with a new line, then click Save.

4. Restart the Server

• Valheim reads the admin list when the server starts, so restart it after saving. Use the Restart button (the middle of the three power buttons in the sidebar).
• Once the server is back up, the admin joins and presses F5 to open the in-game console. Since patch 0.221.4 the console is off by default: switch it on in the game's settings, or add -console to Valheim's launch options in Steam.
• To check it worked, run an admin command such as banned (it lists banned players). If admin commands don't work, check that both lines are there, that the file is in the Valheim folder, and that you restarted after saving.

Tips

• Admins get server commands such as kick, ban, unban, banned, save and skiptime. Cheat commands like god, fly and spawn (devcommands) are blocked on dedicated servers, even for admins. Our guide How to Use Dev Cheat Commands on Your Valheim Server explains why and how to unlock them with a mod.
• Double-check every SteamID64: one wrong digit and that player won't be an admin. Valheim doesn't show an error for a wrong entry.
• To remove an admin, delete both of their lines, save and restart the server.

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