Manage admins, whitelist, and bans from your dashboard

1. Open My Servers and open your server.

2. On the Overview card, click the Admins tab. On Project Zomboid it is called Admins & Whitelist.

The tab only appears for games whose servers keep player lists. If yours has none, see My game has no Admins tab.

1. Type the player's name or ID into the search box and press Enter. For Steam games you can also paste the player's Steam profile link.

2. On the player card, pick a role next to Role:. Hover a pill to see what that role can do.

3. Set any extra options (Minecraft's are below; on 7 Days to Die, Permission level: 0 is full access).

4. Click Add Player.

5. Click Save changes in the popup at the bottom of the page (Save on mobile). Nothing applies until you save.

Player not found. usually means a typo or the wrong kind of ID for your game. For a brand-new Bedrock gamertag, paste the player's 16-digit XUID instead; the message links a lookup site.

To take a role away, or to unban someone, click the red trash icon (Remove player) on their row, then save.

When you pick Operator, the player card shows Level: buttons and a Bypass limit: toggle, which lets that player join even when the server is full. Level 4 is selected for you, the same level Minecraft's own /op grants:

Pick a lower level only to limit someone on purpose. The Lvl column in the roster shows each operator's level; Whitelisted players show a dash there, because they are not operators.

An operator you added earlier still cannot run commands? Operators added in the dashboard used to start at level 1, which allows no commands. That was our bug, and new adds are fixed. If a player's Lvl shows 1, remove them with the trash icon and save, then add them again as Operator with level 4 and save.

The dashboard uses each game's own terms. A few common ones:

Ban roles (Ban, Banned, Block) reject the player when they try to join. Whitelist roles (Whitelist, Whitelisted, Allow) mark who may join when the server is invite-only.

On Minecraft Java and Minecraft Bedrock, a toggle at the top of the tab turns the whitelist on and off, with a status line such as "Whitelist is off: Anyone can join." Bedrock calls it the allowlist.

Turning it on opens a Warning! dialog, because an active whitelist blocks everyone not on the list, including you. Add yourself first, then confirm with Enable Whitelist (Bedrock: Enable Allowlist). On Bedrock, restart afterwards; operators added while the allowlist is on show Op + Allowlist, because they go on both lists. To undo, switch the toggle off and save.

On Valheim and 7 Days to Die, the server becomes invite-only as soon as the list has a name on it. Factorio has a Whitelist toggle in your server settings. For a simple door key, use a server password.

Roles match the In-game username: field (case-sensitive, not always the Steam name). Picking Whitelist generates a Whitelist password: to send the player; after you save, only you and friends with See passwords can see it. Details in Project Zomboid: Become an Admin on Your Server.

• Minecraft Java and Project Zomboid: immediately while the server is online, no restart. Saved while offline, they apply on the next start.

• Rust bans: a ban or unban applies immediately while online, and a banned player on the server is kicked. Owner and Moderator changes apply on the next start.

• Every other game: on the next start. Save first, then restart your server.

List files like ops.json sync with the roster both ways, and the files win when the server boots. A file with a syntax error pauses that sync, and a yellow note in the tab names it. See Edit config files.

• Palworld uses an admin password: Palworld: How to Become an Admin on Your Server.

• FiveM and RedM manage admins in txAdmin and your framework: FiveM: Become an in-game admin (QBCore and ESX).

• Restarting before you save. Nothing on this tab applies until Save changes.

• Typing /op in game for an operator whose Lvl shows 1. The dashboard's level can overwrite it at the next start. Remove and re-add them at level 4 instead.

• Owning the server on Haptic. Your in-game character still needs a role here, so add yourself.

• Sharing dashboard access with a friend. That lets them manage the server, not run commands in game.

Reach us on Discord or at support@haptic.gg. Include the game, the player's name or ID, and a screenshot of the Admins tab.