Enshrouded Server Config Generator

The name players see in the in-game server browser. Default "Enshrouded Server" — which is also what every un-configured server is called, so change it unless you want to be one of a hundred identical entries. Keep it short and searchable.

An optional single password for the whole server. Most Enshrouded admins leave this blank and use the per-role passwords below instead — that's the game's documented way to gate access and hand out permissions. We only write this key if you fill it in.

UDP port the game traffic runs on. Default 15636. Forward it on your router and open it on the firewall. Must be different from the Query Port below — matching them stops the server from starting.

UDP port the Steam server list uses to ping your server for info (name, player count). Default 15637, one above the game port. Forward it too, or your server may show up empty or not at all in the browser.

How many players can be on at once. Default and hard cap is 16 — the game won't go higher. Each extra player costs CPU and RAM, so on a modest box set this to what you'll actually use rather than maxing it for the sake of it.

Proximity (default) = you only hear players near you, which suits immersion and exploration. Global = everyone hears everyone, server-wide. Only has any effect when Voice Chat is enabled above.

Enshrouded ships four built-in presets — Default, Relaxed, Hard, Survival — plus Custom. ⚠ The gameplay factors in every section below ONLY apply when this is set to Custom. On any named preset the server uses Keen's built-in values and silently ignores your custom tuning. Picking one of our Casual/Hardcore/Peaceful templates sets this to Custom for you.

Multiplier on player maximum health. Default 1.0. Higher makes players tankier (forgiving for newcomers); lower bites hard in the deeper biomes. A common gentle tweak is 1.5–2×.

Multiplier on player maximum mana — the resource behind spells and ranged charges. Default 1.0. Raise it for a more magic-heavy, spammy combat feel; lower it to make casting a careful resource.

Multiplier on player maximum stamina, which governs sprinting, dodging and melee. Default 1.0. Higher means more aggressive uptime in fights and longer sprints; lower makes movement and combat more deliberate.

How well players hold body heat against cold-biome temperature drain. Default 1.0. Higher softens the cold-survival pressure; lower makes warmth a real concern. Steps through 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 / 2.

How long players can stay underwater before drowning. Default 1.0. Raise it if your map has a lot of deep water exploration; most servers leave it at default.

How long the buffs from eating cooked food last. Default 1.0. Higher means you cook and eat less often (convenience); lower keeps food a constant chore. 1.5–2× is a nice quality-of-life bump.

Minutes between becoming "hungry" and actually "starving". Default 10. Entered in minutes here — we write it out in the game's nanosecond value. Only has an effect when the Starving Debuff above is on; raise it to give players a longer grace period.

How long players can stay inside the Shroud before the timer kills them. Default 1.0. Higher gives more breathing room to explore Shroud zones; lower makes the Shroud genuinely deadly. A core difficulty lever for this game specifically.

Real minutes of in-game daytime per cycle. Default 30. Entered in minutes; written out in the game's nanosecond value. Longer days give more comfortable build/explore time before night; shorter days speed the cycle up.

Real minutes of in-game night per cycle. Default 12 (nights are shorter than days). Entered in minutes; written out in nanoseconds. Drop it toward the minimum if your players find the dark stretches a slog.

How often harsh weather events roll in. Normal is default. Disabled turns weather events off entirely, Rare calms them down, Often cranks them up. Mostly an atmosphere/visibility dial.

Chance of picking up a Shroud curse when you go down in the Shroud. Normal is default; Easy effectively turns curses off; Hard roughly doubles the chance. Note: the in-game menu labels these Off / Default / High — the file uses the values shown here.

How many enemies populate the world. Normal is default. Few thins them out for a calmer, building-focused server; Many / Extreme crowd the map for a combat-heavy one. Pairs with the aggro setting below.

How many enemies can actively attack you at the same time. Normal is default. Few means they queue up and politely take turns (much easier); Many / Extreme let a whole pack pile on at once. One of the biggest real difficulty levers in the game.

Multiplier on the damage normal enemies deal. Default 1.0. Drop to 0.5–0.75 for a forgiving server; push past 1.0 for a punishing one. The most direct "how deadly is the world" dial.

Multiplier on normal-enemy health — how long they take to kill. Default 1.0. Higher makes fights longer and more attritional; lower lets you carve through trash mobs faster. Combine with Enemy Damage to tune the whole feel.

How much enemies can keep attacking before they need to recover. Default 1.0. Higher means relentless pressure with fewer openings; lower gives you more gaps to punish. A subtler dial than damage/health.

How far away enemies notice you. Default 1.0. Higher makes stealth nearly impossible and pulls more fights; lower lets you sneak past or pick engagements. Drop it for a more exploration-friendly server.

Multiplier on the damage bosses deal, separate from normal enemies. Default 1.0. Tune this independently so you can keep the open world casual but still have demanding boss fights — or vice versa.

Multiplier on boss health — how long boss fights last. Default 1.0. Raise it for a longer, group-oriented fight; lower it if duos and solos find bosses a slog. Pairs with Boss Damage.

How readily enemies lock onto and stick to a target. Default 1.0. Higher makes the world more reactive and tenacious; lower lets you disengage more easily. A flavour dial most servers leave at default.

What happens to your taming progress when an animal gets startled mid-tame. LoseSomeProgress (default) sets you back a bit; KeepProgress is forgiving; LoseAllProgress is punishing. Set it to KeepProgress on a relaxed server.

What's left behind when you die. AddBackpackMaterials (default) drops a recoverable tombstone with your backpack materials. Everything is full-loot — you drop the lot and must run back for it. NoTombstone keeps your inventory on death (the softest option). The in-game menu labels these differently, but these are the values the file expects.

How fast you chew through terrain and ore with the pickaxe. Default 1.0. Higher makes mining and tunnelling quicker — a near-universal comfort tweak on co-op servers since voxel mining is slow at vanilla rates.

How fast farm crops grow. Default 1.0. Raise it so your farm keeps up without babysitting; lower it for a slower, more deliberate agrarian server. Pairs well with longer food-buff duration.

How much you get per gathered resource — the headline "boosted server" dial. Default 1.0. 2× roughly halves grind time without trivializing it. The single most-tweaked economy setting.

How fast production stations (kilns, smelters, the like) churn through their queues. Default 1.0. Higher means less waiting on the furnace — one of the most-appreciated comfort tweaks on busy servers.

Multiplier on the materials needed to craft and apply gear perks. Default 1.0. Lower is cheaper. Drop it so experimenting with perks isn't a heavy resource sink on a casual server.

Fraction of materials you get back when recycling a perk. Default 0.5 (half returned) — note this one isn't 1.0. Raise toward 1.0 so swapping perks costs almost nothing; lower it to make perk choices more committal.

Multiplier on experience earned from fighting. Default 1.0. Raise it for faster levelling on a boosted server; the three XP factors are independent so you can favour combat, mining or exploration.

Multiplier on experience from mining. Default 1.0. Can be set all the way to 0 if you want mining to be purely about materials, not levelling — useful to stop XP farming on a heavily-boosted gather rate.

Multiplier on experience from exploring and completing quests. Default 1.0. Raise it to reward map-clearing and questing over grinding — a nice fit for an exploration-focused server.

How hard the fishing mini-game is. Default Normal, scaling from VeryEasy to VeryHard. Purely a side-activity dial — set it easy if you don't want fishing to be a skill test.

The label for this role. Default "Admin". Rename it freely; the permissions, not the name, are what matter.

The join password that grants Admin rights. Blank by default — set this. Anyone who connects with this password becomes an admin, so use a long, private string and share it only with staff.

Slots held open for this role so staff can always get in when the server is full. Default 0. Reserved slots count against your total Player Slots.

The label for this trusted-player role. Default "Friend". Rename to "Member", "Trusted", whatever suits your community.

The join password for the Friend role. Blank by default. Set it and hand it to your regulars; leave it blank only if you genuinely want this role open to anyone.

Slots held for trusted players. Default 0. Reserved slots count against your total Player Slots.

The label for the lowest-permission role. Default "Guest". This is what unknown drop-in players get.

The join password for the Guest role. Blank by default. On a public server, a blank Guest password is what lets anyone in as a harmless guest; set one to make even guest access invite-only.

Slots held for guests. Default 0, and usually left there — you don't normally reserve capacity for drop-ins.

Which network interface the server binds to. 0.0.0.0 (default) means all interfaces — correct for nearly everyone. Only set a specific IP if you're multi-homing the box and know which NIC you want.

Where the world save is written, relative to the server folder. Default ./savegame. Leave it unless you're deliberately relocating saves; changing it on a live server points the server at a different (usually empty) world.

Where server logs are written, relative to the server folder. Default ./logs. Handy to relocate onto a separate disk on a busy box; otherwise leave it.

Optional labels for your server (one per line) — things like pve, boosted, or a region code, used by some browsers/hosts for filtering. Leave it empty if you don't need them; we only write tags if you add any.