This guide will show you how to Whitelist Players and Configure Your ARK Survival Evolved Server
Managing who can access your ARK: Survival Evolved server is an important part of maintaining a stable, secure, and well‑organized community. Whitelisting gives you full control over player access by allowing only approved survivors to join, ensuring your server stays private, protected, and tailored to the group you want to host. Alongside whitelisting, configuring your server’s core settings helps you shape the gameplay experience, whether you’re focusing on progression, cooperation, or custom rules. This guide walks you through how to whitelist players and configure essential settings on your ARK SE server so you can run a controlled, reliable, and smoothly managed environment.
Configuring Player Whitelisting on Your ARK SE Server
1. Log in to your Game Panel.
2. Before making changes, make sure the server is stopped.
3. Navigate to the Web Console Tab.
4. In the web console, log in as an admin with cheats enabled and use the following commands to manage player access:
cheat DisallowPlayerToJoinNoCheck <SteamID>
<SteamID> With the player’s numeric Steam ID. 5. These commands will also generate a whitelist file that you can manually edit afterward if needed:
\ARK\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\PlayersJoinNoCheckList.txt
