New: Admin Interface – run your own server in game
Kick, ban, announcements, restarts, tickets, Discord – so far console and text files. Now it is all in one window in game, and players get a server help.
Anyone running a Stationeers server knows it: the console for a ban, the chat for an announcement, a separate script for restarts, and who currently has which abilities is written in some note. With Admin Interface this is now one window in game – Ctrl+U, in the same look as the game, in German and English.
There are owner, admin and moderator roles with a rights matrix, kick, ban and temp ban with a reason the player can read when connecting, warnings with automatic consequences, whitelist and maintenance mode. I grant abilities like godmode, creative building or flying per player, for themselves only or for others too, and for just two hours if I want. Announcements and restarts can be scheduled; start scripts for Windows and Linux are included for restarts.
Security mattered most to me. The server believes nothing a player sends: what you may do follows from your connection, and every request is checked again. Because the dedicated server does not have Steam confirm the Steam ID, there is an optional admin password – it never leaves your own computer. Token and webhooks for Discord stay on the server.
Every player gets the server help with Ctrl+Y: support tickets that get answered even while you are offline, polls, rules, news and a calendar with maintenance and events. A small clock in the HUD shows when the next restart is due.
When I tested on my German keyboard, Ctrl+Y did nothing at first: the game reads letters by their position on a US keyboard, and there the Y sits where the Z is on a German one. So both keys now follow the labels on your keyboard, QWERTZ and AZERTY too, and can be changed in the LaunchPad. Clock and buttons on the HUD stay below all windows – with Skill & Level System 1.1.1 this also applies to the level bar.
Statistics, player logs without IP addresses, an anticheat that only reports by default, anti-griefing and an own start lander for every new player complete it – the last two are off until you need them. The interface works together with the Banking System, Skill & Level, Roleplay & Permissions and Exploration.
The server and all players need the mod. I explain the setup on a dedicated server and the Discord bot step by step in the guide.