Game Settings
The Game Settings card in your server's Settings tab lets you edit the game's
world and server configuration (for Palworld, everything in PalWorldSettings.ini)
without opening the file manager. Each setting is a labeled, typed field grouped by
category: Server Management, Base & Building, Features, and Game Balances.
Editing settings
- Open your server, go to Settings, and find the Game Settings card.
- Change any field: difficulty, XP rate, max base Pals, PvP, passwords, and more.
- Click Save.
On a stopped server the file is written straight away and the new values load the next time you start it.
On a running server the button reads Save & restart server, and one click does the whole sequence for you: it stops the server, writes the file, and starts it again. Players are disconnected for the duration of the restart. The button reports each step while it works.
Your changes persist across restarts. While a group is saving, the other groups' Save buttons are briefly disabled so two edits to the same file can't overwrite each other.
Why saving restarts the server. While a game server is running it owns its config file, and several games (Palworld among them) rewrite that file on shutdown from the settings they loaded at their last boot. A change written mid-session lands on disk correctly and is then discarded by the very restart meant to apply it. Writing only while the server is down is the only way the change survives - which is why the panel stops it first rather than letting you save into a running game.
For Palworld, server identity fields (name, description, passwords, RCON) are edited here in Game Settings. The matching fields on the Startup tab only seed those values on the server's very first boot.
Palworld: max base Pals and other base limits
Max Base Pals (BaseCampWorkerMaxNum, default 15, game maximum 50) and the other
base-camp limits have a game-side quirk: they only take effect on a newly created
world. On a world that already exists, Palworld ignores the value in
PalWorldSettings.ini.
To raise the base Pal limit on an existing Palworld world you must either start a
new world, or add a WorldOption.sav override to the save directory (generated from
your settings with a Palworld world-options tool). Editing the number in Game Settings
alone will not change an existing world.
Rates, difficulty, PvP, drop, and guild settings do not have this limitation; they apply after a restart on any world.
See the official Palworld configuration reference for what each parameter does.