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Basic Commands

[!NOTE] For an overview of admin menus and verbs, check out the upstream Admin Tooling docs

De-/Activating Admin privileges

readmin

SyntaxDescription
readminEnable your admin privileges.

deadmin

SyntaxDescription
deadminDisables your admin privileges to play like normal.

aghost

SyntaxDescription
aghostTurns you into a fancy ghost with an inventory that can interact with the live round.

Gathering information

adminlogs

SyntaxDescription
adminlogsOpens the floating logs window.

adminoverlay

SyntaxDescription
adminoverlay <bool>Alternative to clicking the toggle overlay button in the F7 player menu.

listgamerules

SyntaxDescription
listgamerulesThis command will print a list of currently active game rules, allowing you to see previous spawns and the current game mode at a glance.
  • If the RampingStationEventScheduler is present, the game mode is Survival.
  • If the BasicStationEventScheduler is present, you can identify the gamemode by antag-specific gamerules such as Nukeops or Traitors.
  • Some round-start antagonists don’t roll immediately; the respective game rules will be shown as [PENDING] until the roles are filled.

lsobjectives

SyntaxDescription
lsobjectives <username>Prints the antagonist objectives of the requested player to your console.
SyntaxDescription
menuvis [mode]Allows you to make items inside of containers visible to you in the context menu.
  • Use menuvis ALL to view inside closed lockers and other containers by right-clicking.
    • Watch out, people are containers too and you can take out their organs as an aghost!
  • Use menuvis without any arguments to go back to normal.

Moderation

adminnotes

SyntaxDescription
adminnotes <username>Opens the note menu on the specified user

ban_exemption_update

SyntaxDescription
ban_exemption_update <username> <flag>Exempt an account from specific kinds of bans.
  • Flag IP: Used to exempt someone from a non-VPN IP Ban. Use this if they are affected by another player’s ban.
  • Flag Datacenter: Used to exempt someone from VPN/Datacenter bans.

rename

SyntaxDescription
rename <username> <new character name>Used to properly rename a player mid-round.

playerpanel

SyntaxDescription
playerpanel <username>Opens the player panel for the specified user, containing shortcuts to various menus.
  • Keep a playerpanel open on suspected raiders, it’ll allow you to react much quicker by just clicking the freeze button.

banlist

SyntaxDescription
banlist <username>Opens a player’s ban list.
  • By clicking on view, you can display a tooltip with the ID of each ban and other metadata.
    • Do not share the data shown to you in this tooltip, it contains PII.

pardon

SyntaxDescription
pardon <ban id>Pardons a specific Server Ban.

roleunban

SyntaxDescription
roleunban <ban id>Pardons a specific Server Ban.

Addressing Bugs

setmind

SyntaxDescription
setmind <username> <entity ID>Use this to force a player to take control of a certain (sentient) entity. Useful if Psionics sent someone to nullspace again or ghosted them.

spawnplayer

SyntaxDescription
spawnplayer <username>Spawn the given player’s current character at your aghost’s position.
  • Use this if you can’t teleport someone out of nullspace after deleting their old body. You may need to use setmind to force them in.

griddrag

[!WARNING] Don’t forget to turn griddrag off after using it! There’s no indicator that it’s enabled and you won’t see the grid you’re on moving as you’re moving with it. If you forget to disable it, you’ll probably end up janking around the station and disrupting the round.

SyntaxDescription
griddragToggles grid dragging.
  • Use this to drag stuck grids away from each other, such as a salvage wreck out of the LPO outpost.
  • After executing the command to enable dragging, simply click on the grid you want to pull and hold. You can drag it with your mouse.
  • The grid will gain velocity, move your mouse slowly until it’s unstuck.
  • Execute it again to disable it.

Eventing

delaystart

SyntaxDescription
delaystart <delay in seconds>Used to delay the start of the round
  • You probably shouldn’t use this frequently or without reason, such as to wait for more players before an event shift or after a server crash.

addgamerule

SyntaxDescription
addgamerule <gamerule>Used to add game rules to the current round. These range from antag spawns to noospheric events.

addaction

SyntaxDescription
addaction <entity id> <action prototype>Used to grant entities the ability to perform special actions such as ActionFireball - ONI’SOMA!

loadgrid

SyntaxDescription
loadgrid <map id> <grid file> <x> <y>Used to spawn in grids such as shuttles.
  • Fly far enough away from the station. If you are too close, the grid might intersect and disrupt the round.

  • Open the F3 Menu to get the required values from the debug menu. They’ll be in the topmost block of text.

  • The grid file parameter should autocomplete, just start by typing /Maps/ and you’ll be able to explore the collection of grids/maps.

  • Using the values from the above image, I could spawn in a recruiter shuttle at the location of my aghost as follows:

    loadgrid 4 /Maps/_DV/Shuttles/Admin/recruiter_ship.yml 964 273
    

spawncharacter

SyntaxDescription
spawncharacter <character name> <loadout>Used to spawn in one of your own characters with the specified loadout.
  • Use this to spawn your CC character with the CentralCommandOfficial loadout.

Miscellaneous

list

listDescription
list <keyword>Search for commands by the specified keyword.

help

listDescription
help <command>Display the specified command’s documentation, if it exists. YMMV.

toggleshadows

SyntaxDescription
toggleshadowsWill toggle rendering of shadows client-side.
  • Less straining on the eyes than fullbright while still allowing you to see clearly in most situations.
  • Remember to turn this back off before you deadmin to play a ghost role. It won’t be disabled automatically.

setadminooc

SyntaxDescription
setadminooc <hex color>Sets the color of your ghost and OOC messages.
  • This will persist, you only need to set it once.

fuckrules

SyntaxDescription
fuckrulesUse this to skip the rules screen that pops up on join.