Space Engineers Server Password Generator

Space Engineers dedicated servers don't keep the password as plain text. SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg wants a salted hash instead. Type the password your players will use and drop the two generated values straight into the config.

Same hashing as the official dedicated server tool

Paste the salt from an existing config to reproduce its hash; otherwise a fresh one is generated.

How to set the password on your dedicated server

The dedicated server reads its password from two XML tags in SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg. The official GUI fills them in for you, but a headless or hosted server has no GUI, so you edit the file by hand. That's what this generator is for. The finished entries look like this:

<ServerPasswordHash>f5RoLOf81z…</ServerPasswordHash>
<ServerPasswordSalt>k0BvLqxKd1…</ServerPasswordSalt>

Stop the server, drop the two values above into the matching tags, save, and start it back up. They're a pair: the hash is computed against that exact salt, so mixing a hash from one run with a salt from another locks everyone out.

On a Host Havoc Space Engineers server, edit SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg straight from the file manager in the control panel, paste the two values and restart from the same screen.

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