Generate a Conan Exiles ServerSettings.ini

Conan's settings file has one habit that catches almost everyone eventually: the server writes over it.

Start from a preset

Visual Settings

ini Format

Identity

ServerName

Name in the server browser.

Gameplay

PVPEnabled

Player versus player combat.

MaxNudity

0 none, 1 partial, 2 full. Server-side setting that overrides client preference.

PlayerXPRateMultiplier

Overall experience rate.

HarvestAmountMultiplier

Resources gathered per action.

ItemSpoilRateScale

How fast food and perishables decay. 0 stops spoilage entirely.

StaminaCostMultiplier

Stamina drain rate.

CraftingTimeMultiplier

Crafting speed. Lower is faster.

ThrallConversionMultiplier

How long the Wheel of Pain takes to convert a thrall, as a multiplier on the time: 0.5 halves it. This is the setting that makes thrall times on a private server differ from every online calculator. A thrall already on the wheel keeps its old timer.

LogoutCharactersRemainInTheWorld

Leaves your character in the world after disconnecting, where it can still be killed.

World

ResourceRespawnSpeedMultiplier

How quickly harvested nodes return.

DayCycleSpeedScale

Day length.

NPCRespawnMultiplier

How quickly NPC camps repopulate.

Players & Access

ServerPassword

Join password.

AdminPassword

Grants admin rights in game. Change it before going public.

MaxPlayers

Slot limit.

IsBattlEyeEnabled

Anti-cheat. Note the server does not answer queries until BattlEye finishes initialising after a restart.

ServerSettings.ini

AdminPassword — This is still the example admin password. Change it before the server is reachable.

[ServerSettings]
ServerName=My Conan
ServerPassword=
AdminPassword=changeme123
MaxPlayers=40
PVPEnabled=True
MaxNudity=2
IsBattlEyeEnabled=True
PlayerXPRateMultiplier=1
HarvestAmountMultiplier=1
ItemSpoilRateScale=1
ResourceRespawnSpeedMultiplier=1
StaminaCostMultiplier=1
CraftingTimeMultiplier=1
ThrallConversionMultiplier=1
DayCycleSpeedScale=1
LogoutCharactersRemainInTheWorld=False
NPCRespawnMultiplier=1

The ServerSettings.ini format

Standard sectioned INI, booleans as True and False. At boot the server loads the file and uses its values — exactly as you would hope, as long as you ignore what happens when it stops.

The mistake that wastes an evening

When Conan shuts down, it dumps its live settings into the file, over the top of whatever is there. That makes editing a running server pointless: the instant it stops, your changes are gone. The only safe order is stop, edit, start.

Three files, three jobs

Conan splits its settings across files in ConanSandbox/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/. ServerSettings.ini holds the gameplay rates and rules this generator writes. Engine.ini holds the ports. Game.ini holds RCON, under [RconPlugin] with RconEnabled=1, RconPassword and RconPort. A setting written into the wrong file is ignored, so check which file a key belongs to before assuming the value is wrong.

Rates that make calculators disagree

ThrallConversionMultiplier sets how long the Wheel of Pain takes, and it multiplies the time: 0.5 converts thralls twice as fast, 2 takes twice as long, and a thrall already on the wheel keeps the timer it started with. HarvestAmountMultiplier and PlayerXPRateMultiplier change gathering and levelling. Online calculators assume all of these are 1, so if your server changes them, its times and amounts will not match. The thrall calculator on this site takes your server's ThrallConversionMultiplier for exactly that reason.

Admin and RCON passwords

AdminPassword in ServerSettings.ini is what a player enters in game to get admin rights. RCON has its own RconPassword in Game.ini. Use two different passwords, so that someone who learns the in-game one cannot also reach the remote console.

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