1 min readUpdated Aug 8, 2026

How To Add Admins To Your Colony Survival Server

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

  1. 1
    Log in to Bropanel and Stop your server.
  2. 2
    In the sidebar, go to Files and navigate to gamedata/savegames, then open the folder matching your World Name (DefaultSave by default).
  3. 3
    Open permissionusers.json. If it doesn't exist yet, click Create File to make one.
  4. 4
    Add an entry keyed with 1. followed by the player's Steam64 ID, with the god group. Add multiple players as separate entries in the same file, for example:
    {
      "1.76561198106341655": { "includes": ["god"] },
      "1.76561325467543212": { "includes": ["god"] }
    }
    
  5. 5
    Start your server.

Tip

Permission levels each include the one below them:

  • god: everything, plus whitelist/blacklist and permission management
  • king: server control, debug tools, loot, teleport, time, flight
  • peasant: default, no special permissions

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