Signs, decals and floor markings for your station: an original library of 180 symbols and your own PNG images, which the server sends to every player automatically in multiplayer. You design them in a gallery: click a sign with an empty hand, pick a symbol, done. Every change shows on the sign at once. Captioned symbols appear in German or English, depending on the game language.
Since 1.1.0 there are also light signs with a kit of their own: powered light boxes with real light, a neon frame, light effects and a backup battery, see Light signs.
Since 1.2.0 the wall sign, data sign and wall light sign also go flat on floors and ceilings, either flush (recessed) or surface-mounted. Flush in the floor, the light sign becomes an escape route floor light, see Floor and escape routes.
Overview
| Type | Mounting | Size | Sides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wall Sign | walls, frames, floors and ceilings | 0.1 to 3 m | one |
| Wall Sign (Data) | walls, frames, floors and ceilings, data cable from below | 0.1 to 3 m | two images, IC10 switches |
| Decal | wall, floor and ceiling | up to 4 m | one, paper-thin |
| Standing Sign | floor, on a base and post | panel up to 1.5 m, bottom edge 0 to 2 m | front and back |
| Hanging Sign | ceiling, on two rods | panel up to 2 m, drop 2 cm to 2 m | front and back |
| Projecting Sign | at right angles to the wall on a wall rail | panel up to 1.5 m | two, readable from both directions of a corridor |
| Light Sign (Wall) | walls, frames, floors and ceilings, cable from below | 0.2 to 2 m | one, backlit |
| Light Sign (Hanging) | ceiling, two rods and a pendant cable | 0.2 to 1.5 m, drop 2 cm to 2 m | front and back, backlit |
Width and height are set freely in the gallery, smallest edge 0.1 m, 0.2 m on light signs.
Requirements
- Stationeers 0.2.6428, BepInEx 5.4.23.5, StationeersLaunchPad 1.0, see Installation
- Mod in the active mod pack
- In multiplayer: the server and all players
Building and recipe
| Kit | Machine | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Kit (Signs & Decals) | Autolathe, tier 1 | 2 iron, 1 copper |
| Kit (Light Signs) | Autolathe, tier 1 | 2 iron, 3 copper, 1 silicon |
One kit for all six types: while building, pick the type with the mouse wheel. Turn the standing sign in any direction with the rotate keys. On floors and ceilings you turn a sign while building in 90° steps with the roll keys (Insert/Page Up) or with C + mouse wheel. Where each sign may go:
- standing sign on the floor only
- hanging sign on the ceiling only
- wall sign and data sign on walls, floors and ceilings (floors and ceilings since 1.2.0)
- projecting sign on walls only
- decal anywhere
- Light Sign (Wall) on walls, frames, floors and ceilings, Light Sign (Hanging) on the ceiling
The Kit (Light Signs) builds both light signs, again the mouse wheel picks.
The costs are in GameData/schilder.xml in the mod folder.
Wall, floor and ceiling
A sign measures the visible surface of the wall, floor or ceiling behind it and sits 3 mm in front of it. That works on a frame-only wall as well as on a finished one. If the wall is built further, taken down or removed later, nearby signs follow by themselves, within 3 seconds at most. So no sign disappears inside a wall that is finished afterwards. schilder info shows the measured distance.
Floor and escape routes
Since 1.2.0 the Wall Sign, Wall Sign (Data) and Light Sign (Wall) can also be built flat on floors and ceilings. For these three you choose the mounting per sign:
| Mounting | Look | Default |
|---|---|---|
| surface-mounted | The sign sits on the surface as before: panel 2 cm, light box 5 cm. | on walls and ceilings, and for all signs from old saves |
| flush (recessed) | Only the sign face shows, level with the surface like a decal. On the light sign you see the frame edge, the glowing face and the neon frame, the rocker switch lies flat next to the bottom edge. | newly built on the floor |
Flush in the floor a sign is walkable, you simply walk over it. The flush light sign becomes an escape route floor light: it shines upwards into the room and keeps glowing from its backup battery during a power cut, like every light sign.
There are three ways to change the mounting:
- in the gallery under "Mounting" (surface or flush)
- in the console with
schilder mount flush,surfaceortogglefor the looked-at sign - with the labeller using the option
;flushor;surface, for example@rettung.boden_geradeaus;flush
Flush only works if a wall, floor or ceiling surface is found under the sign. Otherwise the gallery shows a note and the sign stays visibly surface-mounted.
There are four new symbols for escape routes on the floor. They are read from the bottom edge of the sign, so "straight on" points to the top edge:
| No. | ID | Symbol |
|---|---|---|
| 362 | rettung.boden_geradeaus | Escape route straight on |
| 363 | rettung.boden_links | Escape route left |
| 364 | rettung.boden_rechts | Escape route right |
| 365 | rettung.leitstreifen | Escape route guide strip: green strip with white chevrons, tiles seamlessly; mirror it to change the direction |
Old saves load unchanged, existing signs stay surface-mounted.
Gallery
Clicking a built sign with an empty hand opens the gallery. The symbols are on the left, the settings on the right. Clicking a symbol applies it.
| Area | Options |
|---|---|
| Symbols | categories, search, Recently used, All symbols, Own images, From server, No image (colour and text only) |
| Size | width, height matching the image or free |
| Image | fit, stretch or tile, margin, rotation in 90° steps, mirroring |
| Colours | background (transparent too), tint, any colour |
| Symbol caption | game language, no text, always German or always English |
| Own text | up to 4 lines and 120 characters, game font from 15 mm high, colour, bold, 9 positions, offset |
| Glow | self-illuminated with adjustable strength, needs no power |
| Sides | front and back separately, Back same as front, Copy to other side, Reset side |
| Placement | bottom edge (standing sign) or drop (hanging sign) |
On the data sign the two sides are called Image at Mode 0 and Image at Mode 1.
Lighting: without glow a sign is lit by the lamps like any device, nothing glows by itself. With glow it is visible in the dark.
Decals: transparent parts of the image show the surface below. With tile a stripe repeats along the whole length, for example for hazard stripes on the floor.
Light signs
Light signs (since 1.1.0) are powered light boxes: the face is backlit, the sign casts real light into the room, optionally with a coloured neon frame and light effects. Symbols, own images and own text work as on every sign. A built-in backup battery keeps the sign glowing dimmed on a power cut, like an emergency exit luminaire.
Connection: a normal cable in the cell below the sign, on the ceiling next to it. It carries power and data.
Power use: 30 W per m² of face at full brightness, at least 10 W, at most 40 W. Less when dimmed, the neon frame takes 2 W per metre of perimeter, plus battery charging.
Switch: rocker switch under the box, the status LED next to it.
| LED | Meaning |
|---|---|
| green | grid power present |
| flashing green | battery charging |
| orange | emergency mode on the battery |
| flashing red | switched on, but no power |
Backup battery: on a power cut the sign keeps glowing at 35 % brightness, 30 minutes at full brightness, longer when dimmed. The neon frame stays off. On the grid an empty battery is full again after 60 minutes, even when switched off. A new sign comes with a full battery. Tooltip, gallery and schilder info show the charge.
Gallery: light signs add on/off, brightness, mode (steady, flashing, pulsing, chaser), effect on frame and face or on the frame only, neon frame with colour and emergency light on/off.
Symbol library
180 hand-drawn symbols. Only the general convention of safety signs is borrowed, every pictogram is an original design. Each symbol exists without text and with text in German and English.
| Category | ID | Symbols | Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gases & liquids | gase | 30 | 100–130 |
| Warning signs | warnung | 21 | 200–220 |
| Prohibition signs | verbot | 13 | 250–262 |
| Mandatory signs | gebot | 12 | 300–311 |
| Escape & first aid | rettung | 16 | 350–365 |
| Fire safety | brandschutz | 8 | 400–407 |
| Rooms & areas | raeume | 23 | 450–472 |
| Arrows | pfeile | 9 | 500–508 |
| Numbers & letters | zeichen | 36 | 550–585 |
| Stripes & floor markings | streifen | 12 | 600–611 |
Gases & liquids: every gas of the game as gas and liquid, plus air, fuel gas, steam, water and polluted water. The formula is large, with name, phase and hazard below. The colours follow pipe marking (DIN 2403): oxygen blue, gases yellow, air grey, steam red, water green, liquids brown, acids orange, toxic violet. A stripe on the left shows: red flammable, black non-flammable, white oxidising, violet toxic.
schilder list <category> in the console shows the number and ID of every symbol, for example 201 warnung.strom or 457 raeume.luftschleuse.
Your own images
- Put PNG files into
BepInEx\config\Schilder\Eigene\(PNG only, no subfolders). The mod creates the folder, a readme and blank templates on first start.schilder folderopens it. - Type
schilder reloadin the console, or click Reload own images in the gallery. - The image appears in the gallery under Own images, the file name becomes its name.
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| recommended | 1024 × 1024 pixels or 1024 pixels on the long side, e.g. 1024 × 512 |
| maximum | 2048 pixels per side and 1 MB per file (adjustable) |
| transparency | is kept: decals show the wall there, signs the plate colour |
The subfolder Vorlagen (templates) holds blank signs in the library's style to paint on in an image editor such as Krita, GIMP or Paint.NET. Save the finished image one level up in Eigene. For a prohibition sign paint the pictogram on Vorlage_Verbot_Grund and put Vorlage_Verbot_Ring on top as the uppermost layer.
In multiplayer
- The server sends used images automatically to every player in 32 KB chunks. Until an image has arrived, players see a placeholder.
- Players may upload their own images to the server if the server allows it. Number and size are limited.
- Every image is identified and checked by its checksum (SHA-256): PNG only, dimensions from the file header, no paths from the network.
- Used images are stored in the save file, so a save takes them along, for example to a server.
- Received images are kept in
BepInEx\config\Schilder\Empfangen.
Labeller shorthand
If you name a sign with the labeller and the name starts with @, it sets a symbol directly:
| Name | Effect |
|---|---|
@warnung.strom | symbol by its ID |
@201 | symbol by its number |
@gase.o2;1x0.5 | symbol 1 m wide and 0.5 m high |
@gase.o2;1x0.5;glow | self-illuminated as well |
@pfeile.gerade;back | on the back (standing, hanging and projecting sign) |
More options: flush or surface (mounting on walls, floors and ceilings, since 1.2.0), none (symbol without text), de or en (caption always in that language), a single number like 0.5 (width, height matching the image). Instead of an ID the name of one of your own images works too. Can be switched off with EtikettiererKurzform.
IC10
The logic devices are the Wall Sign (Data) and the two light signs. The data sign has two images, and IC10 switches between them, for example "airlock free" and "airlock busy". All values apply to the image currently shown.
| Device | Prefab | Hash |
|---|---|---|
| Wall Sign (Data) | StructureSchildWandDaten | -1972985587 |
| Light Sign (Wall) | StructureSchildLeuchtWand | -304996989 |
| Light Sign (Hanging) | StructureSchildLeuchtHaenge | 218333778 |
Data sign
| LogicType | Meaning |
|---|---|
Mode | 0 or 1: which image is shown |
On | glow on or off |
Setting | symbol number, see schilder list |
Color | tint as colour number (Color.Red etc.) |
Ratio | glow strength 0 to 1 |
Every value can be read and written. To fill both images via IC10, first write Mode 0 and Setting, then Mode 1 and Setting.
Example: airlock sign
A gas sensor named "Schleuse" hangs in the airlock, next to it a data sign named "Schleuse". The chip puts the airlock symbol (457) on image 0 and the vacuum warning (203) on image 1. If the pressure is below 50 kPa, the sign shows the warning and glows.
# Signs: airlock sign, vacuum warning below 50 kPa
define SCHILD -1972985587 # Wall Sign (Data)
define SENSOR -1252983604 # Gas Sensor
define SCHLEUSE 457 # symbol raeume.luftschleuse
define VAKUUM 203 # symbol warnung.vakuum
define GRENZE 50 # kPa, below this the airlock counts as empty
alias druck r0
alias leer r1
sbn SCHILD HASH("Schleuse") Mode 0
sbn SCHILD HASH("Schleuse") Setting SCHLEUSE
sbn SCHILD HASH("Schleuse") Mode 1
sbn SCHILD HASH("Schleuse") Setting VAKUUM
start:
yield
lbn druck SENSOR HASH("Schleuse") Pressure 0
bnan druck start
slt leer druck GRENZE
sbn SCHILD HASH("Schleuse") Mode leer
sbn SCHILD HASH("Schleuse") On leer
j startIf the sensor fails, the sign keeps its last image.
Light signs (IC10)
| LogicType | Meaning | Access |
|---|---|---|
On | light on (1) or off (0), like the switch | read, write |
Ratio | brightness 0.05 to 1 | read, write |
Mode | 0 steady, 1 flashing, 2 pulsing, 3 chaser | read, write |
Color | neon frame colour (Color.Red etc.), -1 for a custom colour | read, write |
Activate | neon frame on (1) or off (0) | read, write |
Setting | symbol number of the front | read, write |
Power | 1 = grid power present | read |
Error | 1 = switched on but no grid power (emergency mode or dark) | read |
Charge / Maximum | backup battery charge / capacity in J | read |
RequiredPower | power demand in W (light and charging) | read |
Lock | lock the switch | read, write |
On the data sign Mode is the image (0/1) and Color the tint; on light signs they are the light mode and the frame colour. A chip notices a power cut by Error = 1, the battery level is Charge divided by Maximum.
Example: airlock warning with a light sign
Gas sensor "Schleuse" and light sign "Schleuse". Below 50 kPa the sign flashes with a red frame, otherwise it glows steadily with a green frame.
# Schilder: Leuchtschild warnt bei Unterdruck in der Schleuse
define LEUCHT -304996989 # Leuchtschild (Wand)
define SENSOR -1252983604 # Gassensor
define GRENZE 50 # kPa, darunter gilt die Schleuse als leer
define DAUER 0 # Lichtmodus Dauerlicht
define BLINKEN 1 # Lichtmodus Blinken
define GRUEN 2 # Color.Green
define ROT 4 # Color.Red
define AN 1 # Leuchtrahmen an
alias druck r0
alias alarm r1
alias modus r2
alias farbe r3
sbn LEUCHT HASH("Schleuse") Activate AN
start:
yield
lbn druck SENSOR HASH("Schleuse") Pressure 0
bnan druck start
slt alarm druck GRENZE
select modus alarm BLINKEN DAUER
select farbe alarm ROT GRUEN
sbn LEUCHT HASH("Schleuse") Mode modus
sbn LEUCHT HASH("Schleuse") Color farbe
j startIf the sensor fails, the sign keeps its last state. If the power fails, it keeps glowing from the battery and Error becomes 1.
Console commands
Console with F3. "Looked at" means: the sign under the crosshair, otherwise the nearest one within 5 m.
| Command | Effect |
|---|---|
schilder list | categories with their number of symbols |
schilder list warnung | symbols of a category with number and ID |
schilder search power | search symbols and own images |
schilder reload | re-read own images; on the server the list goes to everyone |
schilder images | own and received images, running transfers |
schilder folder | open the folder for own images |
schilder info | looked-at sign: size, images, text, distance to the wall |
schilder gallery | open the gallery for the looked-at sign |
schilder set warnung.strom 1x1 glow | set the looked-at sign, options as for the labeller shorthand |
schilder mount flush / surface / toggle | mounting of the looked-at wall, data or wall light sign (since 1.2.0) |
schilder all | signs in the world by type |
schilder light | light signs: how many glow, in emergency mode, without power, total demand, average battery |
The German words work too: liste, suche, neuladen, bilder, ordner, galerie, setzen, einbau versenkt|aufliegend|wechseln, alle, licht.
Configuration
File: BepInEx\config\dominik1199.schilder.cfg, or via the mod settings in LaunchPad. For own images the server sets the limits, for light signs the power use and battery. Brightness and effects of light signs are set by each player.
| Key | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| SichtweiteFaktor | 1 | how far signs stay visible: 1 = 25 m plus 20 m per metre of sign size, at most 120 m; 0.5 to 3 |
| TextPixelJeMeter | 400 | resolution of the own text, 128 to 1024 |
| SymbolMaxPixel | 1024 | largest edge of loaded images, bigger ones are scaled down; 512 saves video memory |
| LeuchtStaerkeStandard | 0.6 | glow strength when glow is switched on, 0.1 to 2 |
| GalerieSchriftgroesse | 1 | font size in the gallery, 0.7 to 2 |
| EtikettiererKurzform | on | naming a sign "@symbol" with the labeller sets a symbol |
| MaxKB | 1024 | largest allowed PNG file in KB, 32 to 8192 |
| MaxKantePixel | 2048 | largest allowed width or height of an own image, 128 to 4096 |
| MaxAnzahl | 300 | maximum number of own images (folder and shared by the server) |
| MitspielerDuerfenHochladen | on | server: players may upload their own images |
| MaxUploadsJeSpieler | 50 | server: images one player may upload per session |
| SendeKBjeSekunde | 512 | transfer rate for images in KB/s per receiver |
| EmpfangsspeicherMaxMB | 256 | size of the store for received images; the oldest are deleted at start |
| BilderImSpielstand | on | put used own images into the save file |
| AutomatischHerunterladen | on | client: download images from the server as soon as a sign shows them |
| LeistungJeQuadratmeterW | 30 | server: power use of light signs per m² of face at full brightness, hanging two sides ×1.6 |
| LeistungMinW | 10 | server: smallest power use of a light sign |
| LeistungMaxW | 40 | server: largest power use of a light sign without frame and charging |
| LeuchtrahmenWJeMeter | 2 | server: power use of the neon frame per metre of perimeter |
| NotlichtMinuten | 30 | server: how long a light sign glows from its battery at full brightness, longer when dimmed |
| AkkuLadeMinuten | 60 | server: time for an empty backup battery to recharge from the grid |
| NotlichtHelligkeit | 0.35 | brightness in emergency mode, share of normal brightness |
| EchtesLicht | on | light signs cast real light into the room; off = only the glowing face, saves GPU time |
| LichtStaerke | 1 | strength of that light, 0 to 3 |
| FlaechenLeuchtstaerke | 0.6 | glow of the backlit face; too high makes the text bloom |
| LeuchtrahmenStaerke | 1.8 | glow of the neon frame |
| EffektTempo | 1 | speed of flashing, pulsing and chaser, 0.25 to 4 |
Multiplayer
New devices: the server and all players need the mod. Changes from the gallery go to the server and from there to everyone. How own images are shared is described above under "Your own images". See also Multiplayer.
Known limitations
- Only the data sign and the light signs can be controlled by IC10. The data sign switches between two images, there are no more.
Settingonly knows the numbers of the library. Set your own images in the gallery or with the labeller.- Own text: at most 4 lines and 120 characters, letters at least 15 mm high.
- Without glow, signs are as hard to see in the dark as any other device.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Gallery does not open | tool or item in hand | click with an empty hand, or schilder gallery |
| Sign cannot be placed | wrong surface | standing sign on the floor, hanging sign on the ceiling, wall and projecting sign on walls |
| Own image missing in the gallery | folder not re-read yet, file too big or not a PNG | schilder reload, check the size (1 MB, 2048 pixels) |
| Players see a placeholder | image still being sent | wait a moment; schilder images shows the transfer |
| Player cannot upload an image | server does not allow it or limit reached | MitspielerDuerfenHochladen and MaxUploadsJeSpieler on the server |
| Sign invisible in the dark | no glow | switch on glow in the gallery or hang up a lamp |
| IC10 changes nothing | normal wall sign instead of data sign, or no data cable | build a Wall Sign (Data) or a light sign, connect a cable from below |
| Light sign glows dimmed, LED orange | no grid power, emergency mode on the battery | connect a cable in the cell below the sign, or switch off the emergency light in the gallery |
| Light sign dark, LED flashing red | switched on, but no power and battery empty | connect a cable, the battery is full again after 60 minutes |
@symbol does nothing | ID misspelled or shorthand switched off | schilder search, check EtikettiererKurzform |