How To Install PalDefender On Your Palworld Server - Palworld Guide

PalDefender is a server-side plugin for Palworld that blocks a wide range of known cheats, exploits and crash attempts, and can automatically warn, kick or ban offenders. It also adds extra admin commands on top of the standard RCON commands. Here's how to install PalDefender on your Palworld server.

Danger

Always back up your world before installing any plugins or mods. See our Backup & Restore guide.

Before you start, read through our Mod Installation guide. It covers the general rules for modding your server, including checking compatibility and only installing one mod at a time.

Caution

Before proceeding, make sure the PalDefender release you download is up to date and compatible with the current Palworld version. After a Palworld update, check the PalDefender releases page for an updated build before starting your server.

Installing PalDefender

Download PalDefender.dll and d3d9.dll from the PalDefender releases page.
Log in to the GhostCap Panel and Stop your server.
Open the File Manager or connect using SFTP.
Navigate to Pal/Binaries/Win64/.
Upload both of PalDefender's .dll files into this folder.
Start your server.

Once uploaded, your Win64 folder should look like this:

Pal/
└── Binaries/
    └── Win64/
        ├── PalServer-Win64-Shipping.exe
        ├── PalDefender.dll
        └── d3d9.dll

Note

PalDefender is installed directly into the Win64 folder and does not require UE4SS, so there is no UE4SS setting to enable in the GhostCap Panel for this plugin.

Configuring PalDefender

Once your server starts, PalDefender generates its configuration files in Pal/Binaries/Win64/PalDefender/. You can edit these using the File Manager or SFTP, then restart your server for the changes to take effect.

All of the available PalDefender settings and commands are listed in the official documentation:

PalDefender Documentation

Note

PalDefender runs alongside the standard admin tools, so you can still use our Admin Commands guide and RCON commands as normal.