How To Become An Admin On Your Factorio Server

Granting yourself administrator privileges on your Factorio server gives you full control over your factory world. As an admin, you can kick or ban disruptive players, unban users, and run powerful server commands directly from the in-game chat. There are two simple ways to promote players to admin status on your MintServers host.

Method 1: Using the Server Console (Recommended)

The fastest and easiest way to promote someone is by using the live console inside your MintServers control panel. Your server must be online and running for this method to work.

1. Launch Factorio and connect to your server. This ensures your player profile is registered on the server.
2. Log into your MintServers panel and navigate to the Console tab on the left-hand sidebar.
3. At the bottom of the console window, you will see a text input box.
4. Type the following command into the box, replacing Username with your actual in-game name:

/promote Username

5. Press Enter. The console should confirm that the player was promoted to admin.
6. If you ever need to remove someone's admin powers, you can type /demote Username into the console.

Method 2: Editing the Admin List File

If you prefer to configure your server files manually or want to add multiple admins at once before starting the server, you can edit the admin list file directly.

1. Log into your MintServers panel and click the Stop button to shut down your server.
2. Navigate to the Files tab on the left sidebar.
3. Locate the server-adminlist.json file in your main directory. If it does not exist, you can create a new file and name it exactly that.
4. Click on the file to open the text editor.
5. You need to add the usernames inside a JSON array. If you are adding a single admin, it should look like this:

[
  "YourUsername"
]

6. If you want to add multiple admins, you must separate their names with commas, like this:

[
  "YourUsername",
  "FriendUsername",
  "AnotherFriend"
]

7. Click the Save Content button at the top of the editor.
8. Return to the Console tab and Start your server.

Common Admin Commands

Once you are an admin, you can type /h or /help in the in-game chat to see a full list of commands available to you. Here are a few essential commands to help you manage your server:

• /kick [player] [reason] - Removes a player from the server temporarily.
• /ban [player] [reason] - Permanently removes a player from the server.
• /unban [player] - Removes a ban from a player.
• /admins - Displays a list of all current server administrators.
• /server-save - Forces the server to save the current map state immediately.