Enshrouded Server Settings

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Everything on this page lives on the Startup tab of your server in the Nitro Panel. Stop the server, change the field, start the server. The panel writes your values into the game’s config for you.

Caution

Use the Startup tab, not enshrouded_server.json. The panel owns that file and rewrites it from the Startup tab values on start, so a hand edit looks like it works and then disappears.

Note

Role passwords and reserved slots are the exception. Those apply via Settings, then Reinstall Server, which keeps your world and files. They are covered in Admin, Friend and Guest Roles.

Server identity and chat

Setting	Default	What it does
Server Name	My Server	The name players search for in the game’s browser. Up to 64 characters.
Max Players	16	The game’s hard cap is 16. The panel will not accept more. Each connected player adds roughly 100 MB of RAM on top of the server’s idle use.
Voice Chat	Off	Turns in-game voice on.
Voice Chat Mode	Proximity	Proximity is heard by players nearby, Global by the whole server.
Text Chat	Off	Turns in-game text chat on.

Difficulty preset

Difficulty Preset has five options: Default, Relaxed, Hard, Survival and Custom. The first four are the game’s own built-in profiles.

Caution

Every setting in the Custom sections below is ignored unless the preset is Custom. Pick Relaxed and change Enemy Damage, and nothing happens. Set the preset to Custom first, then tune.

A good way to work: pick the built-in preset closest to what you want, play a session, then switch to Custom and change only the handful of things that bothered you.

Custom settings

All multipliers use 1 as the game’s normal value. 0.5 is half, 2 is double.

Player

Setting	Default	Range	What it does
Player Health	1	0.25 to 4	Health multiplier.
Player Mana	1	0.25 to 4	Mana multiplier.
Player Stamina	1	0.25 to 4	Stamina multiplier.
Body Heat	1	0.5 to 2	Cold resistance. Higher lets you stay longer in cold areas.
Diving Time	1	0.5 to 2	Oxygen supply underwater.
Time in Shroud	1	0.5 to 2	How long you can stay in the Shroud before it kills you.
Weapon Durability	On	On or Off	Off means weapons never break.
Starvation Debuff	Off	On or Off	On means hunger can kill you.
Food Buff Duration	1	0.5 to 2	How long food buffs last.
Hunger to Starving	10 minutes	5, 8, 10, 12, 15 or 20 minutes	How long after you get hungry you start starving. See the time values note below.

Death and curse

Setting	Default	Options	What it does
Death Drop	AddBackpackMaterials	AddBackpackMaterials, Everything, NoTombstone	What you drop on death. Materials only, everything in the backpack, or nothing at all.
Shroud Curse Chance	Normal	Easy, Normal, Hard	Easy turns the curse off. Hard doubles the chance.

World and time

Setting	Default	Options	What it does
Day Length	30 minutes	2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes	How long daytime lasts.
Night Length	12 minutes	2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes	How long night lasts.
Weather Frequency	Normal	Disabled, Rare, Normal, Often	How often weather events happen.
Flame Level: Shroud Removal	11	1 to 20	The Flame Altar level at which the Shroud is pushed back for the whole server. The game’s default is 11. Keen has not published the full range, so treat values far from the default as an experiment.

Time values

The game stores time settings in nanoseconds, so the dropdowns for Day Length, Night Length and Hunger to Starving show large numbers rather than minutes. The conversion is the same for all three.

Minutes	Value
2	120000000000
5	300000000000
8	480000000000
10	600000000000
12	720000000000
15	900000000000
20	1200000000000
30	1800000000000
45	2700000000000
60	3600000000000
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Progression and economy

Setting	Default	Range	What it does
Mining Damage	1	0.5 to 2	Resources gathered per hit.
Plant Growth Speed	1	0.25 to 2	How fast crops grow.
Loot Stack Amount	1	0.25 to 2	Size of resource drops from chests and enemies.
Workstation Speed	1	0.25 to 2	Crafting and production speed.
Upgrade Rune Cost	1	0.25 to 2	Runes needed to upgrade a weapon.
Salvage Rune Refund	0.5	0 to 1	Fraction of runes returned when you salvage an upgraded weapon.
XP: Combat	1	0.25 to 2	Experience from combat.
XP: Mining	1	0 to 2	Experience from mining. 0 turns mining XP off entirely.
XP: Exploration and Quests	1	0.25 to 2	Experience from discovery and quests.

Enemies

Setting	Default	Range or options	What it does
Enemy Spawn Amount	Automatic	Few, Normal, Many, Extreme, Automatic	How many enemies exist in the world. Automatic, the 1.0 default, scales each encounter to the players nearby.
Aggro Pool	Normal	Few, Normal, Many, Extreme	How many enemies can attack you at once.
Enemy Damage	1	0.25 to 5	Non-boss damage. 1.0 reworked the underlying values, so retune this after upgrading an older world.
Enemy Health	1	0.25 to 4	Non-boss health.
Enemy Stamina	1	0.5 to 2	Higher makes enemies harder to stun.
Enemy Perception Range	1	0.5 to 2	How far enemies see and hear you.
Enemy Attack Frequency	1	0.25 to 4	How often enemies attack.
Boss Damage	1	0.2 to 5	Tuned separately from regular enemies.
Boss Health	1	0.2 to 5	Tuned separately from regular enemies.
Pacify Enemies	Off	On or Off	On means non-boss enemies leave you alone until you hit them.

Other

Setting	Default	Options	What it does
Fishing Difficulty	Normal	VeryEasy, Easy, Normal, Hard, VeryHard	How hard the fishing minigame is.
Glider Turbulence	On	On or Off	Off restores the older, smoother glider behaviour.
Taming Startle Penalty	LoseSomeProgress	KeepProgress, LoseSomeProgress, LoseAllProgress	What happens to taming progress when you startle the animal.

System

Setting	Default	What it does
Auto Update	On	Updates the server to the current game build on every start. Leave it on. A player on a newer build cannot join an outdated server.
Validate	Off	Re-checks every game file against Steam on the next start. Slow. Turn it on once after a bad update, then turn it off again.

Ports

There is nothing to set. Your server’s port is assigned when it is created and written into the config for you. It is the port shown with your Server address on the Console tab, and it is what Steam needs if you add the server as a favourite. See How to Connect.

Values the panel will not accept

Every field has a range, and the panel checks it when you save. A server name over 64 characters, a password under 4, a player count over 16 or a multiplier outside its range gets an error in the panel instead of a server that silently refuses to start. If a value you want is outside the range, open a ticket and ask.

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