How to Change Max Players on Your Sons of the Forest Server
Set the player limit on your Sons of the Forest dedicated server (hard capped at 8).
Sons of the Forest has a hard cap of 8 players. This cannot be increased — it's a game engine limitation, not a server setting you can raise.
Stop your server
Go to Console in the XGamingServer Panel and stop the server.
Open dedicatedserver.cfg
Click Files in the sidebar and open dedicatedserver.cfg.
Change the player count
"MaxPlayers": 8You can set this lower than 8 if you want fewer players (e.g., 4 for a small group), but not higher.
Save and start
Click Save Content and start from Console.
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