How to manage players, bans and the whitelist on your The Isle server

The IsleUpdated Oct 19, 20264 min read

Your The Isle community is run from the Active players card on the Overview page. It lists who is on, and it has two buttons: Announce to message everyone, and Who can play for the whitelist, admins, VIPs and bans. Every list works with SteamID64s, so players with the same name are never mixed up.

The Active players card of a The Isle server with Announce and Who can play

What you can do

Task	Where	Guide
See who is on	Active players card	Who is online
Kick or ban a player who is on	The row's menu, Kick or Ban	Kick or ban
Lift a ban	Who can play, Bans	Lift a ban
Let only your community in	Who can play, Whitelist	Whitelist
Give admin tools in game	Who can play, Admins	Become admin
Let players skip the queue	Who can play, VIPs	VIPs
Message everyone or one player	Announce, or the row's Send a message…	Announcements

Open Who can play

Open your server in the panel.
On the Active players card, click Who can play.

The Who can play window with the Whitelist, Admins, VIPs and Bans tabs

The window has four tabs: Whitelist, Admins, VIPs and Bans. To add someone, type their SteamID64 in Add by SteamID64 and click Add. On Admins and VIPs you can also type a Name (optional) so you remember who it is. On Whitelist, players who are online and not on the list yet show under Online now, not on the list, to add with one click.

When changes apply

Whitelist: straight away on a running server, and kept for the next start.
Admins and VIPs: after the next restart, because the game reads these lists when it starts.
Bans: a ban from the panel applies straight away. Lifting one applies straight away too.

Under each change the window says when it applies: Done. It applies straight away., Saved. It applies after the next restart of the server., or Saved. The server is stopped, so it applies when it starts.

Find a SteamID64

A SteamID64 is the 17-digit number that starts with 7656119. A player finds theirs on their Steam profile (the number in the profile address, if they have not set a custom one), or with a Steam ID lookup website that reads their profile address.

Good to know

Use the panel lists, not Game.ini. The server writes these lists into the game's config at every start, so a line typed into the file by hand is replaced.
A server installed before 18 October 2026 needs one restart before Who can play works.
You need the panel permission to use the console to kick, ban and announce. Who can play (and lifting a ban) also needs the permissions to read and create files. Owners have all of them. See How to invite friends and give them access.

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