SCP: Secret Laboratory - Complete Plugins Guide
Posted by Cole | 25 August 2025
At Kinetic Hosting, we have made customising your SCP: Secret Laboratory as easy as possible. With full EXILED Integration, installing plugins has never been easier!
The easiest, fastest and most reliable way to host an SCP: Secret Laboratory server is to use a dedicated hosting provider, like Kinetic Hosting. We offer Instant Setup, Full Plugin support, and you can be up and running near instantly.
Key Takeaways
How to upload Plugins to your SCP: Secret Laboratory Server
How to Find EXILED Plugins
The 5 most popular EXILED Plugins and what they do.
What You’ll Need Before You Start
Before getting started with using EXILED Plugins on your SCP: Secret Laboratory server, make sure you have the basics covered:
A Steam account: You’ll need this to access and manage the game files.
A copy of SCP: Secret Laboratory installed: It’s free to download through Steam.
A Dedicated Game Server: A server that you have set up with EXILED installed. At Kinetic Hosting, we automatically install this with your server to make plugin installation as easy as possible.
How to Install EXILED Plugins on your SCP: Secret Laboratory Server
To start installing EXILED Plugins on your SCP: Secret Laboratory Server, the steps may change depending on the server you go with, but we will be assuming you are using a Kinetic Hosting Server, for the sake of this blog post.
1. Access the Kinetic Panel
Once you’ve purchased a server, you will have instant access to the Kinetic Panel. From here, you can manage your entire server without needing to mess with configs.
2. Install SCP: Secret Laboratory Server
In just a few clicks, install SCP: Secret Laboratory from the game list in the panel. No manual setup or config headaches. Just pick, click, done!
3. Install Plugins
Go to the “File Manager” tab on the Kinetic Panel, navigate to the “.config/EXILED/Plugins” file path and drag and drop the plugins that you have downloaded.
4. Restart Server
Now, restart your server. Whenever making changes, always make sure to restart your server afterwards, as this will ensure that the changes are made.
5. Jump into SCP: Secret Laboratory
Once you’ve added all the plugins you would like and you’ve restarted your server, it’s ready to go! Invite your friends or your community!
6. What if I Run into Issues During Setup?
We’ve designed the setup to be as easy as possible. But if anything comes up, our support team is available 24/7.
Need help? Check out our SCP: Secret Laboratory help resource.
How to find EXILED Plugins
EXILED Plugins can be somewhat difficult to find, but we’ve found that the EXILED Discord and GitHub are excellent resources for finding plugins to use on your server.
EXILED Discord: https://discord.com/invite/yhfGWVB8Ff
EXILED Github: https://github.com/Exiled-Team
The Most Popular EXILED Plugins and What They Do
These were found on the EXILED GitHub, having been sorted by Stars to order their popularity.
Admin Tools
Admin Tools is an EXILED Plugin that gives server owners fun new commands and logging functionality for the server.\
Adding admin features such as Kicking, Jailing and Killing players and adding cool new features like scaling player hitboxes, spawning workbenches and spawning SCPs
Common-Utils
Common-Utils is an EXILED Plugin that serves many common utilities in day-to-day server life.
Adding the ability to add time broadcasts, join messages and changing class-specific items.
CustomItems
CustomItems is an EXILED Plugin that adds, as the name suggests, Custom Items to the game.
A few of these items are the EMP Grenade, some gun-based SCPs and other weapon-based items, all being customisable in the plugin settings.
SCP035
The SCP035 Plugin adds a passive SCP to the game. This SCP disguises itself as a random item on the map. If a player picks up this item, they turn into an SCP that can use their inventory. If this player dies, the SCP will return to disguising itself as an item.
SerpentsHand
The SerpentsHand plugin adds a new class to the game; the Serpent’s Hand has a chance to spawn instead of the Chaos Insurgency. This class works with the SCPs to eliminate all other beings.
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