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Assigning reserved slots on Don't Starve Together server

In Don't Starve Together, the whitelist reserves slots: players on the list always have a free slot, and other players who aren't on the list can still join with the remaining slots.

First you set the number of reserved slots in cluster.ini, then you add the players' Klei IDs to whitelist.txt. To find a Klei ID, see Get your Klei ID.

Set the number of reserved slots​

  1. Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your Don't Starve Together server.

  2. Select the Files tab, open the folder DoNotStarveTogether/config/server and select cluster.ini to open it in the editor (see Edit a file).

  3. In the [NETWORK] section, add this line and replace number with the number of reserved slots you want:

    whitelist_slots = number

    In this example, there are 5 reserved slots:

    Example Whitelist

  4. Select Save file.

Create the whitelist​

  1. On the Files tab, open the folder DoNotStarveTogether/config/server.
  2. If whitelist.txt is already there, select it to open it. Otherwise select New file, enter whitelist.txt as the name and select Create (see Create a file or folder). The name must be exactly whitelist.txt.
  3. Enter the Klei IDs of the players who get a reserved slot, one per line.
  4. Select Save file.
  5. Restart the server (see Power controls).

The players on the whitelist now have priority over other players connecting.