Fly High, Game On: Pelican's pledge for unrivaled game servers.

Pelican Panel is a free, open-source game server control panel built for communities, hosts, and self-hosters. It gives users a modern web UI for creating and managing game servers while running each server in an isolated Docker container through Wings.

Use Pelican if you want:

• A modern alternative in the Pterodactyl ecosystem
• Docker-isolated game servers
• Support for Minecraft, SteamCMD games, databases, bots, voice servers, and more
• A free, open-source panel suitable for personal servers, communities, and hosting providers

• Read the documentation
• Join the Discord
• Wings
• Open a GitHub Discussion for general project questions
• Open an Issue for confirmed bugs

Pelican supports a wide variety of games by utilizing Docker containers to isolate each instance. This gives you the power to run game servers without bloating machines with a host of additional dependencies.

Some of our popular eggs include:

We welcome contributions from developers, designers, translators, testers, documentation writers, and egg maintainers.

Good places to start:

• Read contributing.md
• Browse open issues
• Join Discord and ask where help is needed
• Improve docs or submit egg updates

Pelican is built and maintained by volunteers. If Pelican helps you or your community, consider supporting ongoing development:

• Sponsor the project
• Contribute code or documentation
• Help answer questions in Discord
• Share Pelican with other server owners

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