So you've grabbed a Conan Exiles server from us — nice. This is the short tour: panel login, first boot, connecting, making yourself admin, and the handful of settings worth touching before you invite anyone. We'll link out to the deeper stuff as we go.
If you haven't picked a plan yet, current specs and pricing live on the Conan Exiles hosting page.
Logging in to the panel
Your live panel is TCAdmin at control.low.ms. Your welcome email has the login. Click into your Conan Exiles service and you'll land on the overview — Connection Info, SFTP Info (port 8822), Query Info, CPU/RAM/bandwidth graphs, and the STOP/RESTART/MORE buttons across the top. The sidebar is where you'll live: Service Settings, Configuration Files, Commandline Manager, Mod Manager, File Manager, Log Viewer, Steam Update, Web Console, Scheduled Tasks, Cloud Backup, Cloud Restore. Keep the overview page open in a tab — you'll need the IP and port from Connection Info in about two minutes.
First boot
Hit Start. Conan takes a bit longer than most games on first launch because it's cooking its save directory and loading the map, so give it 2-5 minutes before you panic. Open Web Console and watch the log — once it stops scrolling and you see the server settle, you're live.
Default ports, for reference:
7777/udp— game7778/udp— Steam query (this is what makes you show up in the browser)7779/tcp— RCON
Player cap is 70 — that's Funcom's documented hard ceiling, not ours. If you see older guides quoting 80, they're wrong.
Connecting
You've got three ways in. Pick whatever's easiest.
Server browser. In Conan, go to Play Online → Server Browser, switch the filter to Internet, and type your server name into the search. Newly booted servers can take a few minutes to publish to the browser, so if it's not there yet, don't assume it's broken — just wait or use one of the other methods.
Direct connect. Play Online → Direct Connect, paste your-ip:7777. This is the fastest way in and the one I use for first-time testing because it skips the browser entirely.
Steam favourites. In Steam, View → Game Servers → Favorites → Add a Server, and enter your-ip:7778 (note: the query port, not the game port — this trips people up). Double-click to join.
Connection info is on the service overview page in the panel.
Becoming admin
Conan's admin system is set-and-go. You don't need a console.
- Open Configuration Files in the panel and edit
ServerSettings.ini. On our current Windows hosts it lives inConanSandbox/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/. If you've been migrated to a Linux box (we're planning to roll Linux out in future), the same file lives underConanSandbox/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/instead — same name, same contents, different parent folder. - Set
AdminPassword=to something you'll remember. Save and restart. - Join the server as a normal player.
- In-game, hit Escape → Settings → Server Settings. Paste your admin password into the Admin Password field and click Make Me Admin.
That's it — you now have the in-game Admin Panel, which is a full GUI for spawning items, teleporting, kicking players, tweaking settings live. Ignore anything you read about a tilde-key console; that's not how Conan's admin path works.
The three settings worth touching before launch
There are hundreds of settings, but for day one you only really care about three.
Map. Exiled Lands is the base game and what I'd default to for a new server. Isle of Siptah is the DLC map — it's great, but be aware that every player who connects needs to own the Siptah DLC on their end, so it's a harder sell for mixed groups. The map is set via launch args, not the INI, and you change it from the Commandline Manager sidebar item — not by editing ServerSettings.ini.
PvP mode. Three choices: PvP (free-for-all), PvE (no player damage, no raiding), or PvE-Conflict (PvP only during set hours, but buildings are protected 24/7). PvE-Conflict is the sweet spot for most semi-public servers — people get to fight when they want to without logging out to a levelled base.
BattlEye. On by default. If your group wants to run client mods that don't play nice with BE, you can flip the launch flag from Commandline Manager. Self-serve, no ticket needed.
Everything else — harvest rates, stamina, thrall costs, decay timers — is in the Conan Exiles server settings guide. That guide is where you'll spend an hour tuning things to taste.
Mods
Open Mod Manager in the sidebar. It's hooked into Steam Workshop and you can search mods by name directly in the panel — find it, click install, done. No hunting for Workshop IDs unless you want to: power users can hand-edit modlist.txt in File Manager if they'd rather manage the load order manually, but for 90% of setups the search UI is all you need.
One rule: every player connecting needs the exact same mods in the exact same order. Mod Manager writes the order for you, so just make sure players subscribe to the same Workshop collection on their end.
Backups and restarts
Cloud Backup runs automatically, and you can kick off a manual one from the same panel whenever you're about to do something risky — settings overhaul, mod update, large base demolition. Restores are a click from Cloud Restore. I'd grab a manual backup before any big config change; takes ten seconds and saves a lot of grief.
Conan's memory usage creeps up over long sessions, so a scheduled restart every 8-12 hours keeps things smooth. Set it in Scheduled Tasks.
If you can't connect
Nine times out of ten it's one of: server still booting (give it 5 minutes), client and server on different game versions (Steam's still updating), or you joined the browser search too early. If you've ruled those out, the Conan Exiles troubleshooting guide covers the rest — port checks, mod mismatches, stuck saves.
And if you're still stuck, open a ticket from the panel. We run support 24/7 and we'd rather sort it in the first hour than find out on day three that you never made it in.