How to Become an Admin on Your Space Engineers Server

Space Engineers admin is a list of Steam IDs in the dedicated config. Once you are on it, the game gives you a full admin panel in world.

Find your SteamID64

You need the 17 digit number beginning 7656119. Read it from your Steam profile URL or use a SteamID lookup site with your profile link.

Add yourself to the administrators list

1. Stop the server.
2. In the panel open Files and edit:

   instance/SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg

3. Find the <Administrators /> element and replace it with a list:

   <Administrators>
     <string>76561198000000000</string>
     <string>76561198000000001</string>
   </Administrators>

4. Save and start the server.

Two neighbouring elements work the same way. <Banned> blocks the IDs listed in it, and <Reserved> holds slots for the IDs in it on a full server.

Use the admin tools in game

Join the server and press Alt and F10. The admin screen gives you:

• Space Master, for deleting grids, stopping them, and cleaning up debris.
• Player list, with kick, ban and promote options.
• Entity list, which is the fastest way to find and remove the abandoned grid that is costing your server performance.
• Trash removal settings, for automatic cleanup rules.

Creative mode tools, including instant building and the spectator camera, are available to admins on a survival server through this panel.

Chat commands

Space Engineers has few built-in chat commands. Most administration is done through the Alt and F10 panel, or through a plugin framework if you run one.

Remote administration

The config also has a remote API, controlled by:

<RemoteApiEnabled>true</RemoteApiEnabled>
<RemoteApiPort>PORT</RemoteApiPort>
<RemoteSecurityKey>GENERATED_KEY</RemoteSecurityKey>

Use the REMOTEAPI_PORT value allocated to your server, shown on the server overview. Leave the API off unless you have a tool that needs it.

If admin does not work

• The server must be restarted after the edit.
• Check that you replaced the self closing <Administrators /> tag with a proper open and close pair. Leaving both produces invalid XML and the server will not start.
• If the server rewrote your change, you edited while it was running. Stop first.