The 7 Days to Die web dashboard —
live map, players, console in your browser.
7 Days ships its own browser dashboard: a live map of everywhere your group has explored, who is on and where, and the full server console — from any browser, phone included. On AcidNodes it is one toggle plus a one-time login you make in-game. The card is the whole path; below is every step with nothing skipped.
# in your panel 1 Settings → turn on Web dashboard, save 2 Players → your row → Make admin # in the game, one time (press F1) 3 createwebuser yourname yourpass # then 4 Server tab → Dashboard link → sign in
Step 1 — turn the dashboard on
Settings tab → Web dashboard → on
In your server’s Settings tab, flip Web dashboard on and save. Saving restarts the server to apply it — that is normal, and your world is untouched.
Want the live map too?
Turn on Render the map (under Performance) as well. The map draws itself as players explore, which is what the dashboard shows — it costs a little disk and CPU, which is why the game ships it off. No map toggle = the dashboard still works, it just has no map to draw.
Step 2 — make your login
Become an admin first
Only an admin can run console commands, and creating your login is a console command. In your panel: Players tab → find yourself in the online list → Make admin. (You have to be on the server for your name to show — start it and join if you are not.) No hunting for a Steam id — the button already knows it because you are connected.
Open the in-game console
Back in the game, on the PC you play on, press F1. A text box opens across the top of the screen — that is the console.
Create your web login
Type createwebuser followed by a name and a password of your choosing, then press Enter:
createwebuser myname MyPassword123Pick anything — a simple name, a password you will remember. That is your dashboard login now, and it sticks; you only do this once. The game prints your dashboard link right after the command — you can click that straight away, or use the Dashboard link in your panel; both open the same page.
Step 3 — sign in
Open the dashboard
Two ways, same page: the link the game just printed after your createwebuser command, or the Dashboard link in your panel’s Server tab.
Enter the name and password you just made
The same myname / MyPassword123 from the console. You are in — and you stay in; the browser remembers it.
What the dashboard actually does
A live map with your players on it
Everywhere anyone has explored, drawn as they go, with player positions in real time. Watch a friend get swarmed from your phone.
Who is on, and moderation
The player list, with kick and ban — the same actions your AcidNodes panel gives you, in the game’s own tool.
The full console — yes, like Rust RCON
Every command your permission level allows. Level 0 (what Make admin gives you) is everything: giveself any item, spawnairdrop, settime and weather, teleport, XP and buffs. The item-and-creative commands that act on your character are best run from the in-game F1 console; the server-side ones (time, weather, spawns, bans) work from the dashboard, the panel, or in-game alike.
Stuck? The three that trip everyone
“It wants a username and I only have my Steam id”
Right — the login is not your Steam id. It is the createwebuser name and password from Step 2. If you skipped that step, do it now; nothing else will log you in.
“createwebuser says I can’t do that”
You are not an admin yet. Do Step 2.1 — Players tab, Make admin — then run the command again. Admin powers only kick in once you rejoin or the command is re-read, so if it still refuses, reconnect to the server and retry.
“The dashboard loads but the map is blank”
Turn on Render the map in Settings and restart. The map only exists once the game is drawing it, and it fills in as players explore — a brand-new world has nothing to show yet.
Self-hosting it yourself
Same game, so the same dashboard — you just do the plumbing by hand: set WebDashboardEnabled and a WebDashboardPort in serverconfig.xml, open that port on your router and firewall, turn on EnableMapRendering for the map, then createwebuser in-game exactly as above. On AcidNodes the toggle publishes the port for you and the link is on your Server tab, which is the part that saves the evening. Starting from nothing? Our sister site’s full 7 Days setup guide.