Palworld Admin Commands
Vanilla admin commands for managing players, saving, and server control.
Becoming an Admin
Set Administrator Password in Settings, under the Basic category, then click Save Changes and restart the server. Palworld has no admin list file for a dedicated server - admin access is password-based.
In game, press Enter to open chat, type /AdminPassword YOUR_PASSWORD and press Enter. You get no confirmation; run /Info to check it worked.
Admin status lasts for the current session only. Re-authenticate every time you reconnect.
You can also run a subset of these from the Console tab in the panel without being in game - see the last section. Note that the Console tab wants them WITHOUT the leading slash.
Player Management Commands
/KickPlayer {PlayerID} - kick a player from the server.
/BanPlayer {PlayerID} - ban a player permanently.
/UnBanPlayer {PlayerID} - unban a player.
/Broadcast {Message} - send a server-wide announcement.
/ShowPlayers - list all currently connected players with their ids.
/Info - show server info and current settings.
The id is platform-prefixed on a crossplay server: steam_ (then the SteamID64) for Steam, gdk_ (then the XUID) for Xbox, ps5_ (then the PSN id) for PlayStation. Copy it exactly - there is no partial matching.
Server Control Commands
/Save - force-save the world immediately. Use this before stopping the server for a clean save.
/DoExit - shut down the server immediately. Use Stop in the panel instead when possible - it is safer.
/Shutdown {Seconds} {Message} - shut down the server after a delay with a warning message to players. Example: /Shutdown 60 "Server restarting in 1 minute".
/ToggleSpectate - switch to spectator mode (in-game only).
Commands That Do Not Exist in Vanilla
Palworld does not have built-in commands for spawning items or spawning Pals. The /GiveItem, /SpawnPal and /SpawnItem commands you may see in older guides do not exist in the vanilla game. Teleporting does exist: /TeleportToPlayer {PlayerID} takes you to a player and /TeleportToMe {PlayerID} brings a player to you, both in game only.
On GameGrid you already have the mods that add them. The platform installs UE4SS, PalDefender, the Admin Commands mod and ItemDumper on every Palworld server start, and the Game Tools page has a UE4SS tab that shows their status and can reinstall or remove them. Those add the in-game commands beginning with ! - such as !give and !spawn.
They only load when the game process starts, so if a server has just been created, start it once and then restart it before expecting them to work.
PalDefender's own behaviour is configured from the PalDefender tab on the same page, and its whitelist and admin-IP lists are in Settings > Player Management. PalDefender's own bans are lifted in game with its /unban command.
Running Commands From the Panel
The Console tab sends commands to Palworld's own REST API over the host's loopback, so you can administer the server without joining it.
Type them WITHOUT the leading slash - ShowPlayers, not /ShowPlayers.
It accepts: ShowPlayers (or list, players), Info (or serverinfo), Metrics (or stats, performance), Settings (or config), Save, Broadcast <message> (or announce), KickPlayer <id>, BanPlayer <id>, UnBanPlayer <id>, Shutdown, Stop, and Help. With PalDefender it also accepts PDAlert <message>, PDReloadConfig, PDGiveExp <id> <amount>, PDGiveItem <id> <itemId> [count] and PDGivePal <id> <palId> [level].
Anything else is refused and nothing is sent to the server: the Console tab answers "Unknown Palworld command" followed by the list of commands it does accept. /DoExit, /ToggleSpectate and the two teleport commands are in-game only.
Shutdown from the Console tab uses a fixed ten-second countdown. Stop is the immediate version - it stops the server at once, with no countdown and no warning to players. For a longer warning, use /Shutdown {Seconds} {Message} in game.
Running these on a schedule
The same REST API the Console tab uses is what the Command Manager sends scheduled commands down, so anything you can run by hand you can run on a repeat โ a save every half hour, a restart broadcast at the same time each night, a PalDefender item reward every Friday for whoever is online.
The Command Manager tab is on the Event Manager page. Two things about Palworld are worth reading before you build anything there: commands authenticate with your AdminPassword, which the platform writes for you at the next start if you have left it blank, and the Send to every online player option saves you ever typing a platform-prefixed player ID by hand.
The full walkthrough, the 11 schedulable commands and which of them need PalDefender are in Palworld Command Manager.