Sharing scripts

Your cold room script has been running without errors for weeks. A friend wants it too. From now on it runs in a base you have never seen, with devices named differently, on a game version that may be newer. Sharing means: the script has to manage without you.

Where scripts live#

In the game the IC editor stores every script in the library. On disk that is one folder per script:

Documents\My Games\Stationeers\scripts\<Title>\instruction.xml

The IC10 coder on this site can export this file and read it back in. And in the website's IC10 library you publish a script so that others can view it, test it in the simulator and take it over.

The instruction.xml#

<InstructionData>
  <DateTime>638652480000000000</DateTime>
  <GameVersion>0.2.6428.27798</GameVersion>
  <Title>Kuehlhaus v3</Title>
  <Description>3 sensors, emergency mode. New: check setpoint</Description>
  <Author>Dominik1199</Author>
  <WorkshopFileHandle>0</WorkshopFileHandle>
  <Instructions>...the code, XML-escaped...</Instructions>
</InstructionData>

Marking versions#

Three places, one number: define VERSION 3 in the code, “v3” in the title, and in the description what is new. The GameVersion adds which game version you tested with.

A self-test for other people's bases#

What works for you usually fails for someone else because a device is missing or named differently. Let the chip report that itself. Every required device gets a bit in a code, and a display shows it:

snan code temp                      # bit 0: sensor missing
snan tmp heat
ins code tmp 1 1                    # bit 1: heater missing
sbn ANZ HASH("Info") Setting code   # 0 = everything present

If the display shows 2, the heater “Raum” is missing – anyone can find that without asking.