App Settings

Reached from the App settings entry, the gear icon at the bottom of the sidebar. This page is about PalCommand itself, not any one server. Per-server settings live on that server’s own Settings tab (see Managing Multiple Servers).

Editing anything here doesn’t save right away. A sticky bar appears at the bottom while you have unsaved changes (“N unsaved change(s)”) with Discard and Save buttons, the same pattern a server’s Settings tab uses.

General

• Launch at Windows startup: opens PalCommand in a normal window when Windows starts. There’s no tray.
• Auto-start servers on launch: starts your managed servers automatically when PalCommand opens.
• Data folder: where PalCommand stores its own settings and local data, shown as a click-to-copy path with an Open button that reveals it in File Explorer.

Notifications

The global Discord webhook and notification toggle. Any server can override this webhook on its own Schedule tab; leaving a server’s override blank falls back to this one. Send test posts a test message through this global channel.

Updates

Get beta updates switches PalCommand’s own update channel; Check for app updates now checks immediately instead of waiting for the next automatic check. See App Updates for what an update does and doesn’t touch. It’s about updating PalCommand itself, not your Palworld servers.

Appearance

A three-way theme switch: Dark, Light, System. Light applies live, same layout, different token values.

Account and MCP

Account sign-in, billing, device revocation, export, and deletion live on the Account page; see Account, Trial & Subscription. MCP is disabled by default. Enabling it stores a pairing secret only in Windows Credential Manager and asks you to choose read, operate, or admin scope. Read is the safe default. See Local MCP Integration.

Backups & maintenance

• Backup root: where backup archives are stored, with a Browse picker.
• Keep last: how many backups to retain per server.
• Metrics retention (days): how long performance history is kept.
• Update check interval (minutes): how often PalCommand checks for Palworld server updates. 0 disables automatic checks.
• Auto-apply Windows Firewall rules on start: applies each server’s firewall rules the moment it starts, instead of leaving that to the Network tab’s Apply button. On by default. If it fails, most commonly because PalCommand isn’t running as Administrator, the server still starts (a server nobody outside can reach is still a server), but the exact netsh command needed to add the rule manually now appears as a console line on that server’s Console tab, so the failure is never silent. Turn this off if you’d rather apply firewall rules yourself from each server’s Network tab.

Privacy

Two switches, both off by default: Send crash reports and Send anonymous usage analytics. Everything else the app sends is listed in the privacy policy.

These switches do not control account login, billing, update checks, SteamCMD, PalDefender, or a webhook you configured. Crash reporting is implemented and consent-gated; analytics remains an inert switch until the privacy inventory is updated before any future wiring.