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RuneScape: DragonwildsGuideYour Dragonwilds server will not start until it knows who owns it. In the game, open Settings, scroll to the bottom, and copy your Player ID. Paste it into…
Your Dragonwilds server will not start until it knows who owns it. In the game, open Settings, scroll to the bottom, and copy your Player ID. Paste it into Your Player ID in your server's settings, save, and press Start. That same id is what makes you the owner in game, with the power to kick, ban, and promote friends to admin.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds does not have an admin password. Instead, the dedicated server is told up front which player owns the world, and that player gets the owner tools in game. Without an owner the server has nobody to hand those tools to, so we hold Start until the field is filled in. You will see a message on the server card that says exactly that.
Start RuneScape: Dragonwilds on the platform you play on (Steam, Epic, the Jagex Launcher, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, or Switch 2).
Open Settings from the main menu.
Scroll all the way to the bottom. Your Player ID is listed there as one long code with no spaces.
Copy it. On PC there is a copy control next to it; on a console, write it down or photograph it, then type it on the device you use for the dashboard.
Your Player ID is the same on every platform you sign in on with the same account, so copy it once and it works everywhere.
Open My Servers and open your Dragonwilds server.
In the server settings, find Your Player ID and paste the code in. The field trims spaces for you.
Save. If the dashboard says it does not look like a Player ID, you pasted something else (a world name, a sentence, or a code with spaces in it). Go back to the game and copy again.
Press Start. The message goes away as soon as the field is filled in.
You can finish the rest of your settings before you have the id. A blank field saves fine; it only blocks the boot.
Once you join your own server with the account that owns that Player ID, the in-game Server Management screen is yours. From there you can kick a player, ban or unban them, and promote a friend to admin so they can help you keep order while you are away. Your own owner powers need nothing else in the dashboard; they come from the id alone.
You can also make friends admins from the dashboard: open the Admins tab of your server settings and add each friend's Player ID (they copy it from the bottom of their own in-game Settings, the same way you did). The list reaches the server at its next start. Admins can kick and ban players who are online; only you, as the owner, can unban. You never need to add yourself, because the owner is always an admin.
The server still starts, because it accepts any real-looking id. What you lose is the owner tools: you will join as an ordinary player with no Server Management screen. Copy the id again from Settings, paste it into Your Player ID, save, and restart the server. Nothing about your world changes.
Typing your character name or display name. The server wants the long Player ID code, not the name you see above your head.
Using a friend's Player ID. It boots, but then your friend is the owner and you are not.
Looking for an admin password field. There is none in Dragonwilds 1.0. Older guides that mention one are describing a different version of the game.
Restarting the server without saving the field. The gate checks what is saved, so save first, then start.
Ask in Discord or email support@haptic.gg with a screenshot of your Settings screen and of the message on your server card. We will check whether the id that reached the server is the one you meant.
