How to Claim a Satisfactory Server and Set an Admin

To claim a Satisfactory server, start it, open Server Manager in the game's main menu, add the server, then give it a name and an administrator password. Whoever enters that password later has admin rights, so it is also how you "set an admin" for a friend. A new server cannot start a game until it has been claimed.

Everything below follows the official Satisfactory wiki's dedicated server page. If your server is not installed yet, start with our Satisfactory dedicated server setup.

Why a Satisfactory server has to be claimed

A fresh dedicated server is unclaimed. The wiki is direct about it: before the server can start a game, it must first be claimed. Claiming does three things at once:

• It gives the server a name, shown as its title in the Server Manager.
• It sets the admin password, which limits loading saves, changing server options and creating new games to administrators.
• It unlocks the session: after the claim you can create a new game or upload an existing one.

The wiki does not say what protects a server before it is claimed, so do not leave it waiting. Claim it as soon as the console shows it has finished starting.

How to claim Satisfactory server ownership, step by step

1. Start the server and wait until the console stops printing startup messages. On TheGameHosting, open your server in the panel and watch the Console tab.
2. Copy the server IP and port from the panel. The default game port is 7777, but use the one your panel shows.
3. Open Satisfactory on your PC and choose Server Manager in the main menu.
4. Add the server with that IP and port and wait for it to connect.
5. Set a server name. Use something your friends will recognise in their own Server Manager list.
6. Set the administrator password and store it in a password manager. You need it every time you change settings or load a save.
7. Optional: next to Player Password Protection, choose Change Password to set a password for joining. The wiki notes it is off by default.
8. Create a new game, or upload your world with our guide on how to upload a save to a Satisfactory server.

How to set an admin on a Satisfactory server

Satisfactory has no admin list of player accounts. Admin rights come from the admin password: the wiki describes it as the password that limits administrator privileges to a set of players, the ones who have it. In practice:

To make a friend an admin, give them the admin password privately, not in a group chat. To take admin away, change the admin password in the server's settings and share the new one only with the people who should keep it. Keep the two passwords different: if they match, every player is an admin.

Server settings you can change once you are admin

After the claim, the server settings in the Server Manager are yours to change. The wiki lists these:

Auto Pause is worth turning on for a small group: the factory stops when nobody is online, so you do not come back to belts full of overflow and empty power reserves.

Lost the admin password? How to reclaim the server

There is no "forgot password" button. The wiki's fix is to delete the server settings file, which makes the server unclaimed again:

1. Make a backup first. On TheGameHosting, use Create backup in the Backups tab.
2. Stop the server from Console.
3. In Files, open the server's SaveGames folder and delete ServerSettings.<port>.sav, where the number is your server port.
4. Start the server and claim it again from the Server Manager with a new name and admin password.
5. Set Auto-Load Session Name again so your world loads on the next restart.

SaveGames/
├── server/                    <- your worlds (.sav)
└── ServerSettings.7777.sav    <- claim, name, passwords (7777 = your port)

Common claim problems

1. The server does not appear in the Server Manager. Check the IP and port from the panel. The server uses port 7777 over TCP and UDP plus port 8888 over TCP for reliable messaging; on our servers they are already reachable, so you open nothing yourself.
2. Players get stuck on the loading screen. The wiki links this to the reliable port (8888) not being reachable. Ask support to check it with you.
3. "Encryption token missing" when joining. See Satisfactory server encryption token missing.
4. Someone else has the admin password. Reclaim the server with the steps above and choose a new password.

Claim your Satisfactory server minutes after you order it

A Satisfactory server from TheGameHosting is online about 60 seconds after payment, so you can claim it right away. The panel shows the IP and port to add in the Server Manager, and Console, Files and Backups cover the rest, including a reclaim if you ever lose the password. Friends who help you run the server can get their own panel login from the Users tab, with only the permissions you choose. Servers run on AMD Ryzen 9950X and 7950X3D CPUs at up to 5.7 GHz with DDR5 and NVMe, in Dallas or Amsterdam, with DDoS protection included and 24/7 support on chat and tickets.

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