How to Add and Remove Admins on Your Hytale Server

Updated 10 June 2026 · By Host Havoc Technical Support Team

Operator (admin) permissions on your Hytale server let trusted players use privileged commands. You can add or remove admins through the Web Console when the player is online, or by editing permissions.json when they are offline.

Before you start, make sure you can join your server and have access to the game panel.

Add an Admin (Player Online)

  1. Open Hytale and join your server.
  2. Log in to the Game Control Panel.
  3. Navigate to the Web Console.
  4. Enter the command /op add USERNAME, replacing USERNAME with the player's username. A confirmation message appears in-game when the command succeeds.
    In-game confirmation message after successfully running the op add command

Remove an Admin (Player Online)

The player must be online on your server.

  1. Log in to the Game Control Panel.
  2. Navigate to the Web Console.
  3. Enter the command /op remove USERNAME, replacing USERNAME with the player's username.

Remove an Admin (Player Offline)

If the player is not currently online, you need their UUID. See how to get a player's UUID for the steps.

  1. Identify the player's UUID.
  2. Log in to the Game Control Panel and stop your server.
  3. Navigate to the Configuration Files page.
  4. Open permissions.json using the Text Editor button.
    Configuration Files page showing the Text Editor button next to permissions.json
  5. Find the UUID of the player and remove the line that contains "OP" under their groups entry.
    permissions.json open in the text editor with the OP group line for the target player visible
    permissions.json after removing the OP line showing the cleaned up player entry
  6. Click Save & Exit.

Start your server. The player will no longer have admin access.