How to Become Admin on Your Windrose Server
Windrose has no admin system of its own. Here is what admin access on a GameGrid Windrose server actually consists of, and how to set it up.
What admin means on a Windrose server
Windrose dedicated servers have no built-in admin system. There is no admin list, no whitelist and no ban list — the Settings tab has no Player Management section for Windrose at all, because the game declares none.
Everything that looks like admin control comes from Windrose Plus: a web dashboard with a command console, and a list of Steam64 IDs the mod treats as admins.
The two are separate. Dashboard access is your GameGrid account — the "Open Dashboard" link opens it signed in for anyone with access to this server. In-game admin recognition is the Steam ID list. You will usually want both.
Before you rely on it, know one current limitation: Windrose Plus’s moderation commands do not work. wp.kick queues a request that nothing acts on, because the native component behind it is not shipped enabled in the current release. wp.ban, wp.unban and wp.listbans do maintain a real ban list — a ban you add comes back from wp.listbans and wp.unban takes it out again — but nothing checks that list when a player connects, so a banned player can rejoin. There is no working way to kick or ban a player on a Windrose server today — a password is your access control.
Step 1: Windrose Plus is already there
There is nothing to switch on. GameGrid installs Windrose Plus on every Windrose server by itself and keeps it there, because your live Sea Chart comes from it. Open the server panel and click the "Windrose Plus" tab: the badge reads "On" and "Managed by GameGrid". If it still says "Being installed", GameGrid is putting it on right now; it loads at the server's next start. If it says "Installed · not loading", GameGrid paused its loader to keep your server starting, so the console commands have nothing to run in until it is turned back on: press Turn UE4SS back on if the tab shows that button (once a day), or open a support ticket and mention WindrosePlus.
Windrose Plus is a third-party mod that runs inside the game server through UE4SS; the tab says so, and what GameGrid does about it.
Full detail is in Windrose Plus Guide.
Step 2: Set the dashboard password
GameGrid generates one when it installs Windrose Plus, and it works, but it is random characters. To set your own, go to the RCON / Admin Console section on the Windrose Plus tab, type a new one in the RCON Password field, and press "Save Changes".
The panel will tell you the change needs a restart. Restart the server.
The field shows "Password is set" rather than the value. Press the eye icon beside it to reveal the current password, including the generated one.
Do not reuse your GameGrid password. Anyone with this one has full command access to your game server.
Step 3: Add admin Steam IDs
In the Admin Steam IDs section of the same tab, enter the Steam64 IDs you want Windrose Plus to treat as admins, separated by commas — for example 7656119XXXXXXXXX1, 7656119XXXXXXXXX2.
Press "Save Changes". This section saves without a restart.
A player can find their own Steam64 ID from their Steam profile URL, or through a lookup site such as steamid.io.
Step 4: Open the dashboard
With the server running, the Windrose Plus tab shows a "Live Dashboard" row with an "Open Dashboard" link and the port beside it.
Click it. GameGrid checks you are signed in and that this server is yours, then opens the dashboard in a new tab on its own secure address (wpdash.wdcgamegrid.com) with a one-time link. There is no address-and-port you can type into a browser — that port is firewalled to the game host on purpose.
You land on the console tab without being asked for a password — the one-time link signs the tab in for this server — with the server’s name, version, invite code, player count, live player list and current multipliers beside it, and the Sea Chart on the second tab.
Opening it and reading it needs access to the server. Running a command from the console needs the permission that lets you change the server’s settings as well, so an account that can only view the server sees everything here but cannot type into it.
Using it
Type wp.help in the console for the command list, or expand the command reference panel beside it.
The commands worth knowing first: wp.status for server state and multipliers, wp.players for who is on and their actor IDs, wp.playerinfo for one player in detail, wp.pos and wp.tp for positions and teleporting, wp.uptime, wp.memory and wp.perf for how the server is doing. You do not need a command for the live Sea Chart; GameGrid generates it for you.
The full list, and which of them currently do nothing, is in Windrose Admin Commands Reference.
Changes to gameplay values are made on the Windrose Plus tab in the panel, not from the console. The console is for looking at the server and acting on players.
Controlling who can join
Since there is no whitelist and no working ban, access control on a Windrose server is the password and the invite code, both on the Settings tab.
Set "Server Password" and turn "Is Password Protected" on together, then restart. A password with the flag off does nothing.
If someone you do not want has the password, change it and restart — that is the only mechanism there is. If you are running with invite codes rather than direct connections, change the invite code too.