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Palhelm is a control panel and Discord companion for your Palworld - server. You host it yourself, in one container. It reads your world and - never writes to it. + server. You host it yourself, in one container. Save parsing is read-only; + optional item grants use a separate, audited server bridge.
Online players come from the live server, everyone else from the save file. See each player's level, playtime, guild and pal party, - with their Steam avatar. Kick, ban or whitelist from the same - screen. + with their Steam avatar. Kick, ban, or—when the disabled-by-default + UE4SS bridge has passed its exact-build checks—queue an allowlisted + item grant from the same screen.
Shown with demo data; pal art appears once icons are fetched. @@ -360,7 +361,9 @@ const DOCS_URL = "https://docs.palhelm.com/";
Under the hood: one program for the panel, one web UI, shipped as a single Docker image. Your data stays in one folder on the host. No - separate database to install or run. Full details are in + separate database to install or run. The optional item-grant bridge is + installed separately on the game server and is not required for the + ordinary read-only panel. Full details are in the docs.