How to Change Your Squad Server Name, Password and Layers

All of Squad's server configuration lives in one folder of plain text files. Stop the server before editing them, because Squad reads them at startup.

Where the files live

In the panel open Files and go to:

SquadGame/ServerConfig/

• Server.cfg, the main settings.
• Admins.cfg, admin groups and members.
• Rcon.cfg, remote console settings.
• Bans.cfg, the ban list.
• Layers.cfg and LayerRotation.cfg, which maps and layers are played and in what order.

Name, password and basics

Open Server.cfg:

ServerName="My PlayNHost Squad Server"
ShortName="PNH"
MaxPlayers=40
ServerPassword=
NumReservedSlots=2
PreventTeamChangeIfUnbalanced=true
AllowTeamChanges=true
ServerMessageInterval=300

• ServerName is what shows in the browser. Keep it under the length the browser can display or it is truncated.
• ServerPassword empty means an open server. Setting it hides the server from most default browser filters.
• NumReservedSlots holds slots for members of the reserved group defined in Admins.cfg.

Slots

Your plan's slot count is applied through the maxplayers variable on your server's Startup Settings page, reachable from the server overview. Setting MaxPlayers higher in Server.cfg does not add slots on its own. To run more players, upgrade the plan in the billing area.

Rules, messages and the welcome text

Rules.cfg holds the text shown by the in-game rules command, and the recurring broadcast interval is ServerMessageInterval in Server.cfg, in seconds.

Choosing maps and layers

Squad calls a map and game mode combination a layer. The simple approach is Layers.cfg, one layer name per line, played in order:

Gorodok_AAS_v1
Yehorivka_RAAS_v1
Narva_Invasion_v1

LayerRotation.cfg is the advanced version, which supports conditions such as player count so a small server does not open on a 100 player layer. Use one or the other, not both.

Layer names must match exactly. A typo means the layer is skipped, and the console says so at startup.

Apply and verify

1. Save the files.
2. Start the server.
3. Read the console. Squad reports the config it loaded and complains about bad lines by name.