# Change Server Description

<p class="callout warning">**Before following these steps, make sure to stop your server first. This is to avoiding breaking anything on your server while you edit.** </p>

 **Step 1:** Head to your game panel and look for your **File** **icon** on the left hand side.  
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**Step 2:** When you are in you files, scroll down until you see a file named: **serverconfig.xml**  
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Step 3:**  Open the file and look for the line that says: **&lt;property name="ServerDescription" value="A 7 Days to Die server"/&gt; .** When you have found this line, you can add your own custom Server Description in the Value area.   
  
If you want to add colour to your text, go to **Step3a:**

<p class="callout info">Before:  
**&lt;property name="ServerDescription" value="A 7 Days to Die server"/&gt;** After:  
**&lt;property name="ServerDescription" value="Alien Host New PVP Server!"/&gt;**  
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**Step3a:** To add a colour to your text, head to this website and pick a HEX Colour. [Google Colour Picker](https://g.co/kgs/XfK2L9H)  
  
![Colour pick.png](https://help.alienhost.net/uploads/images/gallery/2024-08/scaled-1680-/colour-pick.png)  
After you pick your colour go to the box and paste it where you want the colour to show. However, make sure you do \[\] for the colour to work.

<p class="callout info">Before:  
**&lt;property name="ServerDescription" value="Alien Host New PVP Server!"/&gt;** After:  
**&lt;property name="ServerDescription" value="\[0629d6\]Alien Host New PVP Server!"/&gt;  
  
When you add you colour just make sure to remove the #  
  
Dont do this: \[#0629d6\]   
Do this: \[0629d6\]  
  
In the photo below u can see the Server Description has changed to blue.**</p>

![7 days to die color change des.png](https://help.alienhost.net/uploads/images/gallery/2024-08/scaled-1680-/image.png)

  
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<p class="callout warning">**Make sure to save before exiting the file**.  
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<p class="callout success">**After Completing these steps, you can now go and start you server.**</p>

  
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