How To Get Started on Your New Palworld Server

A freshly rented Palworld server doesn’t come with a map of where everything lives. Before you touch a single setting, it helps to know three things: where to find your server in My Services, how to confirm it’s actually running, and where the configuration options are kept. In this Nitrado guide, we’ll walk you through those three screens in order, so you can get your bearings the moment your server is ready.

Finding Your Server in My Services

Every server rented through Nitrado gets its own entry inside My Services, the account area listing everything you’ve rented. Your Palworld entry carries a title showing your slot count, plus a short set of readouts:

• Location: the data center your server runs from.
• Slots: how many of your purchased player slots are currently occupied.
• ID of service.
• Platform.
• Runtime: the time left on the current rental period.
• Status: whether the server is Online or Offline.

The Platform readout here reads “Crossplay.” That’s worth calling out: it means Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Mac owners can all join the same session. It doesn’t matter which of those a given friend happens to be playing on.

The Nitrado Webinterface takes you to your Dashboard, where most aspects of server management take place.

The Dashboard

This is the screen to check first any time you want a snapshot of whether things are healthy. The Dashboard displays your server’s name next to the Palworld game art, so you can confirm you’re looking at the right server. Below that sit two live readouts: a Memory Usage graph tracking RAM consumption in megabytes, and a Players readout showing how many people are currently connected.

Getting to the Settings Menu

Once you’ve confirmed the server is up, the next stop is the Settings menu, reached from the same Web Interface sidebar as the Dashboard. It splits into three buttons:

• General: houses the difficulty, gameplay, and player-facing options you’ll actually be adjusting once you’re ready to customize your world.
• Configuration profiles: saves a full snapshot of your settings so you can restore it later.
• Config Files: drops you straight into the underlying .ini text so you can hand-edit anything not exposed as a labeled field.

For a brand-new server, General is where nearly all of your early customization will happen. Knowing this menu exists, and which of its three buttons leads where, is the last piece of orientation you need before diving into any specific setting. You will have to stop your server before you make any changes, and remember to restart it once you are ready to start your world.

Start Building Your World

You’ve now mapped out your server’s entry in My Services, the Dashboard, and the Settings menu, so you always know exactly where to look. From here, head into Settings > General and start working through the options that shape your world, then invite friends across Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Mac now that you know your Crossplay-ready server is up and running.