About Contracts - Lite
Contracts is a time-rotating quest system plugin that allows you to create versatile quests/missions that rotate periodically.
Each contract can have one or more objectives, with multiple objective types to choose from. It doesn't stop there: each objective can be augmented with objective conditions, which add additional requirements in order to progress it. This allows you to define versatile and unique quests:
- You could have quests as simple as "Kill 5 scientists"...
- or a little bit more challenging quests like "Kill 5 scientists with an assault rifle"
- or have crazy requirements like "Kill 5 scientists, with an assault rifle OR an MP5, between 25-50m away, while being below 20 HP, while wearing a bandana and riding a horse". The possibilities are endless!
QuoteThis is the Lite edition of Contracts. Get the full edition here!
Not just another quest plugin
Most quest plugins hand out static, repeatable, single-objective quests with no cap on how many you can have active at once and no deadline on finishing them. Players end up completing them passively in the background without ever engaging with the system, like achievements.
Contracts turns these side-quests into main quests by putting them on a timer. A limited set of contracts is live at a time, each with a real deadline you define, so players have to decide what to prioritize rather than mindlessly clear a checklist. That urgency is why players keep logging back in throughout the wipe, when they'd otherwise burn out once progression stalls.
Contracts also supports multi-objective quests with layered conditions (requirements), so a single contract can demand more than "kill 10 scientists." Simple objectives stack into real challenges, not one-line fetch quests.
Rotation keeps players coming back. Layered objectives keep them there once they do.
Features (Lite)
The following are the limited features of the Lite version. See the Full version's page for the full feature set. Read more about the Lite edition on the website.
- Highly customizable quests/missions to help you build your unique set of goals and control difficulty beyond just progression amounts required.
- Control the flow and order of how contract objectives can be completed.
- 5 objective types to vary gameplay across your server
- 5 objective condition types to add as many layers of challenge that you want to your objectives
- Customizable categories and their rotation period, with the possibility to disable rotations altogether and manually control when contracts rotate.
- Clean UI for browsing and tracking contracts.
- (limited) Event logging with JSONL format support
- Powerful Web editor to make editing your configs a breeze and viewing insightful charts on your JSONL logs
Quick Links
Full Plugin Documentation
Contracts is a very large plugin with a growing number of features. Documenting everything on the Codefling plugin page (here) can be very intimidating, inconvenient to read/search and drive new users away when they see a wall of text. For these reasons, I've created a structured, digestable and detailed documentation website with guides for new Contracts users! Check it out:
Web Editor
Nobody wants to be writing complex JSON structures by hand! Head to the Web Editor at https://editor.rustcontracts.com , drop your data configs and start editing your configs in a convenient UI. The quality of the editor and its extensive features are on par with the quality of the plugin! This isn't just simple forms and inputs.
Editor Features
- Convenient UI: Edit all your contracts, categories and presets in a Web-based UI. No manual JSON editing required.
- Rich Editing Experience: Validation, undo/redo from anywhere, ID refactoring, autocomplete fields, optional raw JSON editing and more QoL features.
- Data Persistence: Save snapshots of your configs and restore or download them at a later time (data saved in your browser).
- Advanced Data Importing: You can import entire data files or choose parts of them to merge into your working config. This makes importing new default contracts or shared contracts into your existing config a breeze.
- AI Generated Contracts: Use the prompt given by the editor in ChatGPT/Claude and paste its response into the editor to generate a contract.
- Command Palette: Easily navigate through contracts, categories, presets from anywhere in the editor through the command palette.
- Stats: View your JSONL logs in pre-made charts to gain insights into your contracts, such as pacing and reward balance.
Discord
Join the official Discord server for support, announcements and more! https://discord.rustcontracts.com
