Colony Survival grants admin permissions through a permissionusers.json file in your world's save folder rather than a Settings toggle. Here's how to add yourself, or another player, as an admin on your Colony Survival server.
Adding An Admin
- 1Log in to Bropanel and
Stopyour server. - 2In the sidebar, go to
Filesand navigate togamedata/savegames, then open the folder matching yourWorld Name(DefaultSaveby default). - 3Open
permissionusers.json. If it doesn't exist yet, clickCreate Fileto make one. - 4Add an entry keyed with
1.followed by the player's Steam64 ID, with thegodgroup. Add multiple players as separate entries in the same file, for example:{ "1.76561198106341655": { "includes": ["god"] }, "1.76561325467543212": { "includes": ["god"] } } - 5Start your server.
Tip
Permission levels each include the one below them:
god: everything, plus whitelist/blacklist and permission managementking: server control, debug tools, loot, teleport, time, flightpeasant: default, no special permissions
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