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How to change your Name and Description on your Project Zomboid Server

Last updated 08 Jun 2025

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Changing your Project Zomboid server name and description is a fantastic way to maek your server stand out. This guide will show you how to change these settings.

1 Login to the Kinetic Panel & Stop the server.

2 Go to the File Manager.

File Manager

3 Navigate through the following files **.cache (It may also be called Zomboid) > Server > Your Server Name.ini.

File Manager

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Your servers ini file name will be what you called your server on the Settings page.

4 You will now want to look for PublicName= and PublicDescription=

5 From there, you can edit these to your liking.

File Manager

6 After you are done editing the file, you can save it, then start your Project Zomboid server!

That is how you edit your Project Zomboid Servers name and description.

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