I've used oxide extensively in rust, but not 7DTD.  How do I run simple commands like oxide.grant player usafbran betterchat.use?  I have been using telnet and battle metrics - a raw command in both yields no results.  I'm clearly missing something.

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The download page says Custom Console - how do I access this using 7 days to die as a service windows?

If I recall correctly there is no command handling in the current version of Oxide for 7DTD, so oxide commands wouldn't work. It is being added but unsure as to when it will roll out.

Yeah I ran the game normally and the oxide console pops up.  It loads plugins from the universal list and such, but the console isn't accecpting any commands to add users to groups or anything like that to allow me to assign chat name colors for example - unless I'm simply doing this wrong.  I'm treating it the same way I would rust.

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Also it just keeps printing this in the console over and over


9:25 am, Navezgane [My Game] Oxide.SevenDaysToDie 2.0.3791

There isn't any command handling in it yet, though we will be adding it soon.

Unsure where the output you are seeing is coming from. but if you have a screenshot of the console that would help.

https://www.apocalypsegaming.net/console.jpg

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It just prints the same thing over and over

You are using the example batch file that came with Oxide to start it right?

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iirc mine does that if I start it with the batch file that comes with 7dtd, the one called dedicated_server or something like that, sorryI am at work so cant check

No I was using the default launch script.  All that was in the zipped file was a bunch of stuff that went into the managed directory.  Is there file generated somewhere or some instructions provided somewhere I'm unaware of?

It should have generated an example for you it the same directory as the 7DaysToDieServer.exe, its called _start-example.bat

Its simply this:

@echo off
cls
:start
echo Starting server...

7DaysToDieServer.exe -batchmode -nographics -configfile=serverconfig.xml -dedicated

echo.
echo Restarting server...
timeout /t 10
echo.
goto start

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Looks like it doesn't come with that anymore, so use the above code to make a batch file

We stopped bundling the example startup scripts probably more than a year ago, as they aren't really part of Oxide, just examples for how to start a server normally.

I realize it's hand holding, but it may go a long way in the future to prevent misunderstandings with the console like this if it's not much work to bundle something basic like that.  I really had no way to know the default script wouldn't interact properly.  

That status bar is actually going away, but there's no reason why it shouldn't work with the default script though.

Oxide is just a mod, not the server itself; users should already have an understanding of how to start their server, so us bundling another startup script example shouldn't be necessary. We had issues with users customizing that example and then complaining when their server got wiped because of it changing each time they installed Oxide. It'd be better to learn how to setup the server and viewing the examples manually online if they'd like to see an example of how to run their server.

Yeah I just wasn't getting the expected functionality with the repeated print on the console.  No worries. 

Just curious if you guys would be willing to put a timeline on when you expect a release that acceps console and chat commands?  I want to ditch server tools so bad.

Soon™

This game is going to explode with mods when you guys release full support.  That nexus mods site is trash - 7DTD modding as a whole is trash presently.

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The suspense of soon is killing me :p