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Changing your servers name on the Server List

Changing the name of your Garry's Mod server for the server list is very important so you can be identified on the server list itself! You can add all sorts of emojis and special texts as-well!

How to change your servers name on the Garry’s Mod server list

Setting your desired server name is very important, everyone looking on the serverlist will see your server by the name you set. You can add all sorts of emojis and such to it too!

Doing this is very simple and we’ll go over it quick and fast!

To change the name of your server you’ll need to navigate to /garrysmod/cfg/server.cfg

Afterwords you will see an option named hostname "Server hosted by Physgun.com" - this is the default hostname applied to all Physgun servers!

To set your desired server name simply type inside the quotes! Example below: hostname "My Very Epic Server | Candy | Movies | Events"

Changing the hostname in the server.cfg file

Make sure to save the server.cfg file after you’re done!

You’re done!

That’s it! Very simple and easy to do, either by restarting your server or typing heartbeat in console will refresh the name of your server!

gmod change hostnamegmod server namegmod server hostname

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