V Rising: Player Banning & Kicking
Keeping a healthy community sometimes requires the removal of toxic players. V Rising provides two ways to do this: temporary Kicks and permanent Bans.
1. The Kick
Removes a player from the session. They can rejoin immediately. Use this as a warning or to unstuck a bugged player.
2. The Ban
Permanently blocks a player's SteamID from joining. The ban persists even after server restarts.
3. The Ban List
Banned players are stored in banlist.txt. You can manually edit this file to unban people if you don't have access to the console.
Method 1: Using Console Commands (In-Game)
You must be an Admin and have the Console enabled (Options -> General -> Console Enabled).
- Press
~(Tilde) to open the console. - Type
ListUsersto see everyone currently online. Note the Player Name or SteamID. - To Kick:
kick "Character Name" - To Ban:
orbanuser "Character Name"banuser "SteamID" - To Unban:
unban "SteamID"
Method 2: Editing banlist.txt (Offline Ban)
This method is useful if you know the offender's SteamID but they are currently offline.
- Stop the Server (Optional, but recommended).
- Open File Manager and navigate to
/Settings/(or/SaveData/Settings/). - Edit
banlist.txt. - Add the SteamID64 of the player on a new line.
(Look up their ID on services like steamid.io). - Save the file.
- If the server was running, execute the admin command
reloadbanlistto apply changes without restarting.
Common Mistake: Do not confuse banuser (permanent) with bancharacter. Banning a character only blocks that specific vampire slot; the player can just create a new one. Always ban the User/SteamID.
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