# Pterodactyl configuration

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## Introduction

> Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.

PlayerServers offers the possibility to sync with your panel and create Pterodactyl servers on the fly - offering your users all that PlayerServers offers + the ability to manage their server through Pterodactyl's amazing UI.

## How to setup

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1. Shutdown your BungeeCord
2. Edit PlayerServers [config.yml](/overview/config.md), enable pterodactyl mode
3. Insert your application token and client token
4. Insert your Minecraft nest-id, Paper egg-id and the location-id of the location your nodes are based in.
5. Just like that, you're done!

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