How to add admins to your Space Engineers server

Love them or hate them, Administrators (or admins for short) are vital to the longevity of any Space Engineers server. As with most physics-based games, things go wrong often, quickly, and without mercy. You need to have people in the game willing to take on the mantle and power of admin!

How to...

Adding administrators is fairly easy when it comes down to it.

1. To start with, you need to know your steamID64. You can find out what your steamid is at http://steamid.io/
   
   
2. Turn off your server - we don't recommend altering files whilst the server is running.
3. Go into the File Manager for your server, go to the servers folder, and edit SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg
   
   
4. At the bottom of the configuration file you should be able to see the following line:
   

   <Administrators> </Administrators>​

   Inside the two Administrator tags, you add your steamid64 inside an unsignedLong tag. For example:
   

   <Administrators>
   <unsignedLong>76561198043373442</unsignedLong>
   </Administrators>​

   Note - by duplicating the unsignedLong part above and placing it beneath the previous admin, you can add more admins. For example:
   

   <Administrators>
   <unsignedLong>76561198043373442</unsignedLong>
   <unsignedLong>76561198043373442</unsignedLong>
   </Administrators>​

5. Restart your server - any admins you have should be able to connect and utilise admin menus!

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