Docs · mod build 5.8

Restarts

Scheduled restarts with countdown warnings, or restart now.

The Restarts tab restarts your server on a schedule, or whenever you say, and warns everyone first with a countdown in chat. It needs Schedule restarts and restart the server (manage_restarts). Owners and admins have it by default.

Coming up

The top card shows the next restart and how long until it, the server's own time and day, and how long it's been up. It updates every 10 seconds while the tab is open.

Skip Next Scheduled skips just the next scheduled restart. If players were already warned, they're told it's off. Press it again to un-skip.
Cancel Manual Restart calls off a restart someone started from this tab.

Restart now

Pick Now or in 1, 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes, add a reason if you like, and click Restart twice. Players get the normal warnings on the way, with your reason after each one. The admin log and Discord say who did it.

The schedule

Tick Restart on a schedule, then any mix of:

Times of day, 24 hour, comma between them, like 04:00, 16:00. These use the server's clock, which the tab shows so you can see which time zone that is.
Days: untick any you don't want. With all seven ticked it runs every day.
Every this many hours of uptime, like 6, counted from when the server (or scenario) last started. 0 turns it off.

Whichever comes first wins.

How it restarts

When the time comes, everyone sees the game's own "server restarting" screen for a few seconds (0 to 60, 10 to start with), then one of:

Method	What happens
Restart the scenario	The same server loads the scenario fresh. Works on every server. Players reload into the new round
Shut down	The server process stops, and your host starts it again. This clears memory properly, but the server only comes back if your host restarts it when it stops. Most rental hosts do. Check yours before using it

If you've set the game's own -autoreload or -autoshutdown launch options, those take over at the end of the game instead, and the mod doesn't restart it a second time.

Warnings

Warn at these minutes, like 30, 15, 10, 5, 2, 1. If a restart is set for sooner than the first one (say "in 3 minutes"), they get one warning straight away with the real time left, then the rest.
Warning message. %time% becomes how long is left, like 5 minutes. It starts as The server restarts in %time%.
Message as it restarts, sent right at the end.
Show as chat, an on-screen hint, or both.
Count down the last 10 seconds, one hint a second.
Big warning card in the middle of everyone's screen at the last warning, so nobody misses it.

Press Save. The schedule changes straight away, and saving never restarts anything by itself.

Discord

Turn on Restart coming up / restarting on the Notifications tab to get a message when the first warning goes out, when it restarts, and when a restart is skipped or cancelled.

The settings live in Restarts/restarts.json. See Config files.