Enshrouded Knowledge Base
Complete guides for your WDC GameGrid Enshrouded server. Learn how to set your server up, start from one of the game's difficulty presets, give your players user groups with their own passwords and permissions, schedule settings events, add mods with EML, read the map of Embervale, and keep your world backed up.
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Setup and Configuration
Enshrouded Dedicated Server Setup Guide
Set up your Enshrouded dedicated server on GameGrid: what is ready for you, the first settings to change, how players find and join it, and where each tool is.
How to Join Your Enshrouded Server
Three ways into your Enshrouded server, the server-browser filter that hides dedicated servers from most people, and what to send your players.
Enshrouded Server Ports and Addresses
Your Enshrouded server uses one UDP port for everything. What it is, why there is no second port, and what to give players adding the server to Steam.
Enshrouded Server Settings Explained
Every Enshrouded server setting in enshrouded_server.json, with its key, range and default: basics, day and night, presets, gameplay values and storage.
Enshrouded Server Difficulty and Presets
Enshrouded's Default, Relaxed, Hard and Survival presets: what each changes, why your server runs on Custom, and how to start from a preset and then tune it.
Enshrouded Gameplay Settings Explained
Every gameplay value on an Enshrouded server by what it does, with its range and how it plays: player, survival, the Shroud, resources, XP, enemies and time.
Bigger Stacks, Backpacks and Chests on Enshrouded
Raise stack sizes, add backpack slots and make storage chests bigger on your Enshrouded server, with no mod for players to install, and the catches to know.
Administration
Enshrouded User Groups, Passwords and Permissions
How Enshrouded user groups set what each player can do, how to manage groups and their passwords in the panel, what each permission allows, and reserved slots.
How to Become Admin on Your Enshrouded Server
Enshrouded has no admin list and no admin commands. Admin is a group password โ here is how to get it, use it, and not give it away by accident.
Kick, Ban and Reserved Slots on Enshrouded
See who is on your Enshrouded server, kick or ban a player in game, find the ban list, keep slots free for your regulars, and deal with a problem player.
The Enshrouded Console and Server Log
What the Console shows on an Enshrouded server, why it has no command box, how to read joins, leaves, chat and GameGrid's lines, and where older logs are.
Enshrouded Event Manager: Double XP Weekends
Run Enshrouded settings for a set time, such as a double XP weekend, and have them put back afterwards: scheduling, player warnings, presets and repeats.
Enshrouded Command Manager: Repeating Events
Enshrouded has no console commands, so the Command Manager gives it the one step that matters: opening a settings window on a schedule, every week, by itself.
Restarts and Player Warnings on Enshrouded
What restarts your Enshrouded server, how players are warned in Discord because the game cannot warn them, start-when-empty, automatic restarts and crashes.
Enshrouded Server Updates: How They Work
How Enshrouded game updates reach your server: the Game Updates card, your world, settings and mods, and what GameGrid's tools do on a new build.
Enshrouded 1.0 on Your Server: What to Expect
Keen Games has set 15 October 2026 for Enshrouded 1.0: how it reaches your GameGrid server, what to do before it, and how our tools handle a new build.
World Map
Enshrouded Live Map: Embervale and Your Players
A live map of Embervale for your Enshrouded server: places, regions and no-build zones, the players online and their bases, teleport and Give, and share links.
Teleporting a Player from the Enshrouded Map
Teleport a player to any point on your Enshrouded map from the control panel: how to do it, how the landing spot is chosen, where it will not go, and messages.
Economy
Enshrouded Economy Overview
A currency, shop and kits on your Enshrouded server with nothing for players to install: how the pieces fit, what earns currency, and where to start.
The Enshrouded Shop and Item Catalogue
Scanning your server's items, the names players recognise, the Stack column, and how to price a shop that is worth browsing.
Kits on Enshrouded
Build starter kits, rewards and event prizes for your Enshrouded server in the Kit Manager, set how often players may claim them, and how they arrive in game.
Linking Discord Accounts to Enshrouded Players
How a player links their Discord account to their Enshrouded character by typing a code in the game's chat, how to link someone by hand, and how to check and remove links.
How Items Are Delivered on Enshrouded
How a shop purchase reaches an Enshrouded player's inventory: full stacks and singles, the delivery queue, what you both see, and what if they log off.
Discord and API
The GameGrid Discord Bot on Enshrouded
Run your Enshrouded server from Discord: settings and user groups, events and presets, the map, the shop and kits, chat, and the two things it will not do.
The Customer API on Enshrouded
Drive your Enshrouded server from your own tools with the Customer API: settings, user groups, the map and players, the economy, chat and events, with scopes.
Sending Enshrouded Chat to Discord
Put your Enshrouded server's in-game chat into a Discord channel, understand why it only goes one way, and know when a line is named.
Metrics
Mods
Backups and Worlds
Enshrouded Saves, Backups and Restore
How Enshrouded saves your world, what a GameGrid backup holds, how to take one, and how to restore your Enshrouded server's world from the Backups page.
Enshrouded Save File Location
Where your Enshrouded world is saved on your GameGrid server and on a PC, what each save file is, how often the server saves, and how to reach the files safely.
Transfer an Enshrouded World to Your Server
Transfer a single-player or co-op Enshrouded world to your server, or between servers: where the save files are, how to rename them, and what characters keep.
Starting a Fresh Enshrouded World
Wipe your Enshrouded world and begin again: what a reset clears, what survives it, the two ways to do it, and the things to do before you press anything.
Performance and Files
Enshrouded Server RAM, Performance and Player Limit
How much memory and CPU an Enshrouded server uses, why 16 players is the limit, what affects performance, and how to tell server lag from a slow PC.
Files and FTP on Your Enshrouded Server
What is in your Enshrouded server's folders, which files are safe to edit, the folders GameGrid keeps to itself, and how to connect over FTP or SFTP.
Troubleshooting
Enshrouded Server Troubleshooting: Common Issues
Fixes for common Enshrouded server problems: it will not start, settings seem ignored, players cannot find or join, purchases do not arrive, mods do not load.
Enshrouded Server Not Showing Up or Can't Join
Work through why a player cannot see or join your Enshrouded server, starting with the server-browser filter that causes most of it.
Enshrouded Server Won't Start? Causes and Fixes
An Enshrouded server that will not start is nearly always its settings file, and it fails without a log. Where the reason is, the four causes, and the fix.
Enshrouded Version Mismatch
What to do when a player's Enshrouded and your server are on different game builds: which side is behind, how to update each, and what to do with mods first.
FAQ
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