How to Add an Admin to Your Mindustry Server

Mindustry has no admin file that you could edit via SFTP. Admin rights are granted exclusively through the console of your server. They are stored in the binary file config/settings.bin.

Add an admin by name

As long as the player is online, their player name is enough.

1. Have the player connect
   The player who is supposed to receive admin rights must join your server and stay online. You can find out how under Join Server.

2. Open the console
   Open the console of your server in the dashboard.

3. Grant the rights
   Enter the following command and replace <PlayerName> with the exact name of the player:

   admin add <PlayerName>
   

4. Check the result
   The server confirms with Changed admin status of player: <name>. The rights apply immediately – no restart is required.

Add an admin by UUID

With the UUID the command also works while the player is not connected – as long as they have joined your server at least once before.

1. Find the UUID
   Use one of these commands in the console:

   Command	Output
   players	All connected players with admin status, name, UUID and IP
   admins	All admins with last known name, UUID and IP
   info <name/UUID/IP>	Detailed information about a player
   search <name>	Searches for players by part of their name

2. Grant the rights
   Use the UUID instead of the name:

   admin add <UUID>
   

Revoke admin rights

admin remove <PlayerName/UUID>

What an admin can do in the game

As an admin you get additional actions in the in-game player list:

Open the server for selected players only

If you only want to allow selected players, enable the whitelist:

1. Enable the whitelist

   config whitelist true
   

2. Allow a player
   Enter the UUID of the player:

   whitelist add <UUID>
   

3. Check the list
   Without any further argument the command lists all allowed players with name and UUID:

   whitelist