How to Change your Starbound Server Settings
Starbound is one of the easier games to modify your server's settings for. If you want to edit the raw config file, you can find it in the Server Files in the /storage/starbound_server.config
file. Use the Nodecraft Pro panel to quickly make changes to this file.
There are a lot of options in this file, but these below are the highlighted options that we recommend making changes to.
Important Options
maxPlayers
Sets the maximum number of players. Be sure to provide a number without any quotes.
allowAdminCommandsFromAnyone
When allowAdminCommands
is turned on, this setting allows anyone to send admin commands. It's recommended to turn this off, and selective provide admin privileges to trusted players.
Optional Settings
maxTeamSize
Maximum number of players that can work together on the same team.
tutorialMessages
When set to true, will send tutorial messages to all new players.
Technical Settings
bannedIPs
This is an array
of IP addresses that are banned from joining your server. Make sure to wrap your list like the example below:
"bannedIPs" : ["127.0.01", "127.0.02", 127.0.03" ],
bannedUuids
This is an array
of player IDs that are banned from joining your server. Make sure to wrap your list like the example below:
"bannedUuids" : ["127.0.01", "127.0.02", 127.0.03" ],
allowAdminCommands
This enables in-game admin commands to cheat, manage players, or other administrative commands.
allowAnonymousConnections
If set to true (as it is by default) then any user can connect to the server without providing a username or password.
anonymousConnectionsAreAdmin
When enabled allows anonymous users to send admin commands. This works similar to allowAdminCommandsFromAnyone
.