How to Add Admins to Your Ark Survival Evolved Server

Many important things in Ark Survival Evolved require administrator permissions. You can do things such as enable flight, use the in-game admin panel, manage players, and much more.

Here is how to add admins to your Ark Survival Evolved server.

Setting an Admin Password

1. Access the Game Host Bros Panel and open your Ark Survival Evolved server.
2. Go to Configuration > Startup Parameters.
3. Look for Admin Password and then type the password you want.
4. Go back to the console page, and then restart your server.

Make Yourself an Admin in Ark Survival Evolved

1. Open Ark Survival Evolved and connect to your server.
2. Press Tab twice to open Console.
3. Type enablecheats [YourAdminPassword].
4. You may test with cheat fly; to disable this, type cheat walk.

Whitelisting Admins With AllowedCheaterSteamIDs.txt

If you don’t want to manually add yourself as an admin through the in-game console, here’s how you can set yourself as an admin in the game files so you’ll automatically become one as soon as you join!

1. Connect to your server.
2. Open the larger Console by pressing Tab twice.
3. To find your Ark ID, type whoami in the console, then copy your ARK ID.
4. Access the Game Host Bros Panel and go to Management > File Manager.
5. Create the file AllowedCheaterSteamIDs.txt in ShooterGame/Saved/.
6. List the Ark IDs (one per line) of the players you wish to set as admin.
7. Restart your server.

Tip

Did you know? There’s also an admin panel in-game; the command to use it is showmyadminmanager.