This guide will help you change the Game Mode safely and easily on your Hytale Server.
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Changing the game mode on your Hytale server is one of the quickest ways to shape how players experience your world, whether you’re enabling creative building, tightening survival rules, or preparing a controlled adventure environment. Doing it safely and easily means understanding not just the commands involved, but also how those changes affect players, permissions, and server stability. A clear approach helps you avoid accidental disruptions—like switching everyone’s mode mid‑event or granting more access than intended, while giving you the flexibility to adjust gameplay on the fly. By learning the available methods, when to use each one, and how to keep changes secure, you can manage your server confidently and maintain a smooth, enjoyable experience for your community.
Managing Game Modes on Your Hytale Server
1. Log in to your Game Control Panel and navigate to your service.
2. Before making any modifications, stop the server from running by clicking the Stop button.
3. Navigate to the Web-Console Tab.
4. In the Web‑Console tab, run the following command to apply the game mode change directly through your server’s command interface.
/gamemode <survival/creative> <player>
NOTE: The player must be actively logged in to the server for this command to work, since the game mode change is applied to their live session and cannot be processed if they’re offline.
5. Server admins can also execute this command directly in‑game, allowing them to make quick adjustments without opening the web console.
How to Change the Default Game Mode on a Hytale Server
Note: This method only affects new players joining the server, because the default game mode is applied at the moment a player first connects.
1. Log in to your Game Control Panel and navigate to your service.
2. Before making any modifications, stop the server from running by clicking the Stop button.
3. Navigate to the Configuration Files Tab.
4. In the Configuration Files section, locate the config.json file and open it using the Text Editor to make changes directly to your server’s settings.
5. In the Text Editor, locate the Gamemode line and update its value to either adventure or creative, depending on the default experience you want new players to have.
6. After editing, click the Save button to apply the changes to your server.
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