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Water Bases rust plugin enables players with permissions to construct and expand structures on and underwater without the need for pillars, incorporating vanilla-like mechanics, special features like underwater nettings, and customizable settings for different player tiers. Questions? Support? Join the discord: https://discord.nikhub.dev In short This Rust plugin enables players with the right permissions to construct structures on the water's surface and even extend them below water in a way that feels natural and in keeping with the game's original style. There's no need for tall, unstable pillars reaching down to the seabed; simply place your foundation on the water and use a building plan or hammer to expand it. These aquatic constructions adhere to the same principles of stability, upkeep, and decay as traditional bases on your server but also introduce unique elements like underwater nettings for gathering random items (with fully customizable loot tables) and innovative building techniques. The plugin accommodates various configuration profiles based on permissions, offering an excellent method to reward VIP players across different levels. It grants you control over who is allowed to build on the water, the size of their constructions, their proximity to the shore, and the highest tier of building blocks they can use, among other aspects. Additionally, the plugin is designed to alert players if their construction interferes with the Cargo Ship's route. With the Submarine update on the horizon, it's time to prepare your server for aquatic adventures with Water Bases! Watch the video below to see what water bases are all about. "What about Cargo Ship, will it destroy structures in the way?" By default, players will get a warning if they try to to build a water foundation in the path of the cargo ship, but their water foundation will stay. You can change this setting from "Warn" to "Prevent", and the player won't be able to build it in first place. Changing it to "None" will skip this check. Every ocean path node creates a "bubble" with a configurable radius. See Admin chat commands section below to visualise those bubbles and guide your players to areas where they will be able to build without issues. Quick start (for players and admins) Upload the WaterBases.cs file to your oxide/plugins folder and you should be good to go, it's all plug-and-play. No need to restart your server! Before you can build on water, you need some Water Foundations. Water foundations are re-skinned Inner Tube items (Shortname: innertube / Item ID: -697981032 ; mind the minus sign, it matters!) with a skin ID 2484982352 (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2484982352) or 2485021365 (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2485021365). That info is just in case you'd like to include those in your own Kits/Server Rewards shops/loot tables/custom crafting plugins. How to obtain those within the plugin? Crafting water base foundations (with Building Planner) By default, all players will be able to craft, deploy, expand and reinforce water foundations. More on the limits and how to change them (how far/close to the shore, min and max depth of the water, how many water foundations allowed per building etc) in the section Advanced Config. When a player equips a Building Plan, a small GUI will show in the bottom right (positions/colours etc can be changed in the config too). There, players will be able to craft deployable water foundations - both square and triangle. Those crafted items will also be consumed when players expand their already deployed foundations or reinforce them. The default permission profile requires a player to be close to a Level 2 Workbench - this requirement can be edited in the config to change the level needed, or you can turn off the need for a workbench altogether, per permission profile. If you don't want your players to be able to craft foundations - so they have to find them/buy them/earn them instead - you can disable it per-profile. In that case, they won't see the GUI. Giving with chat commands (admins only) Type /give_square [amount] or /give_triangle [amount] to give yourself some foundations of that type. If you don't specify an amount, you will only receive 1. Deploying a "starter" foundation on water Go out to the lake/ocean, select the water foundation as your active item and using the doughnut-shaped guide, deploy it on the water surface. After trying to deploy/expand upon an existing water foundation, a couple of checks will be performed according to global config and individual permission profile for that player: Does the player have permission to deploy the first foundation/expand existing one? Is the player building blocked? How far is the player trying to build from shore (based on the map topology)? Too close/too far? How deep is the water where the player is trying to build? Is it too deep/too shallow? Is the player trying to build too close to the path of cargo/Oil Rig? Is the player allowed to have this many water foundations in the building? If all the checks have been successful, a new twig floor, with a stability 100% (like normal foundations) will be built. It will have some indestructible floatation barrels attached to it, partially covering the water foundation's soft side (the bottom). Then, a water foundation can be expanded, upgraded, protected with a Tool Cupboard (like any other buildings, really), or reinforced. Expanding Once you've deployed your first "starter" water foundation, all the subsequent foundations will be placed using vanilla building mechanics - just take a building plan and build some floors neighbouring your water foundation on the sides! If you have enough water foundation items of the required kind in your inventory, those newly placed floors will also turn into water foundations. And they can call be demolished/upgraded, just like normal twig structures, as soon as you place a Tool Cupboard. Expanding a single-sided water foundation requires 1 proper water foundation item, expanding a double sided water foundation (reinforced one) requires two. Reinforcing Reinforcing a water foundation means making it double sided - so it fully covers the soft side AND gives you the ability to build from the surface down, to the seabed/lakebed! To reinforce, make sure a built water foundation is fully repaired, and them hit it with a hammer. If you have a required water foundation item in your inventory, it will be consumed and the foundation will be reinforced: you will see another floor with floatation barrels attached upside down. If you try to expand a reinforced foundation (by attaching a floor at the bottom, reinforced side) and there's no water foundation above it (normal orientation), it will try to create one, provided you have enough items in your inventory. Reinforcements (upside down water foundations) are always associated with the water foundation they're attached to and cannot exist on their own - if you destroy the water foundation, its reinforcement will be destroyed too. However, destroying the reinforcement will not destroy is water foundation. Upgrading Water base structures Building blocks inside your water bases have certain tier limits associated with them - it's to help balance things out. By default, non-VIP and non-admin players will be able to upgrade water foundations to sheet metal tier, floor frames and wall frames to stone tier, and everything else (including walls, floors and reinforcement foundations) to wood tier. You can easily decide which permission profile has which max tier (per type of building block) in the config. Water Base exclusive features Because water foundations are treated as floors with the stability of a foundation, you can place roofs at "ground level", which is not possible with normal foundations! Similarly, you can leave a "hole" where a water foundation would be and place a floor frame with a hatch instead - now you can enter your base from the bottom, underwater! Reinforcing a water foundation means you'll be able to build down from the surface to the bottom of the water to create extra layers of protection, or... Nettings deployed in wall frames underwater will collect random junk items with editable loot tables, including fish and diving equipment! This feature is heavily configurable and can even be disabled. But also Sharks! Read just below. NEW IN 1.0.5: Beware the Netting Sharks! If enabled, Sharks will randomly spawn around Nettings underwater. Especially ones that have accumulated a lot of items, but only if there's at least 1 player within the distance of 100 meters from the Netting. As soon as the first item is caught in an empty Netting, a random silent timer will be set. Every additional item spawning reduces the timer left by a certain percentage (default by 8%). When it hits 0, AND local/global Netting Shark population limits haven't yet been reached (all in the config), a Shark will spawn somewhere near that Netting. The sharks have a configurable aggro distance and multipliers for speed and health. They will linger around the position of the netting that attracted them and try to pursue anyone in sight. Harvesting a Netting Shark corpse with a proper tool will yield some free items from its entrails - by default 5 times more than you'd normally get from a netting full of items from the default loot tables. Of course the default Shark loot tables in the config are, just like the Netting loot tables, completely configurable - check the config section below. All in all, it's like any other base... just on water, without annoying seafloor supports. The stability of the water foundation is always 100% and goes down the higher you built. The stability of a reinforcement foundation also starts at 100% and goes down the deeper towards the seafloor you build. All the decaying things (walls, floors, doors etc) will require appropriate upkeep materials in the Tool Cupboard. Structures can be repaired, demolished, upgraded and removed using plugins. Bases can be raided, taken over or left to decay. Water Bases Permissions (Oxide.Grant user YourName [permission name starting with waterbases.]) By default, the plugin generates 3 permission profiles in the config - one for admins, one for normal players with no specific permissions (default) and one for VIP. More on permission profiles and config values they can handle can be found in the section Advanced Config. Unless you have added more permission profiles, only these two below are going to be used by your config: waterbases.admin Holders of the admin permission will also be able to run the /wb_cfg, /give_square and /give_triangle commands. Also, by default, they will be associated with the permission profile that has no limits on placing water foundations. waterbases.vip1 Holders of this permission will follow settings and limits associated with with that permission profile. The permissions below are also registered, but not used by default. To use them, just create some permission profiles with those permissions as the key. waterbases.vip2 waterbases.vip3 waterbases.vip4 waterbases.vip5 Admin chat commands (must have ownerid/moderatorid/waterbases.admin permission) /give_square [optional arg: amount of items to receive] Will give the player a given amount of square-shaped water foundations. If no amount is provided, only 1 will be received. /give_triangle [optional arg: amount of items to receive] Will give the player a given amount of triangle-shaped water foundations. If no amount is provided, only 1 will be received. /draw_cargo This will draw a "bubble" (only for you, not every player) around every path node, and the bubble's radius will be taken from your config. If a player tries building inside one of these bubbles, they might get a warning or get prevent from doing so (because cargo ship destroys all structures in its way). Useful to visualise where your players can and cannot build, based on the cargo ship path. /shore_distance This will show you the current distance from the shore, to help you decide how close to/far from the shore to allow players to build. The unit used by Rust to measure shore distance is not in meters, it's something roughly equivalent to 1/10th of a map grid length. Mind you though, it's based off of the map's topology, so it should be fine on procgens, but if you have a custom map without topology layers reflecting the actual shoreline, you might want to disable relying on shore distance in your config. Admin console / chat command This command will work both from the chat (in that case, prefix it with a forward slash / ) and the console, (F1 or server/RCON console). Running this command as a player will require the waterbases.admin permission for players that are not moderatorid/ownerid enabled. wb.give [square/triangle] [partial player name or full steam ID] If a player executes it in the chat or console in-game and they don't specify a recipient, it will be given to the player executing this command. Executing from the server console requires specifying the player. Configuration (oxide/config/WaterBases.json and /wb_cfg chat command) Vast majority of the settings can be configured with the /wb_cfg chat command. Typing it in the chat with no parameters should dump a rundown of config fields and their values. In order to run any of the config commands, you will need to have ownerid or moderatorid (or the waterbases.admin permission). /wb_cfg RelyOnShoreDistance [logical values (true or false)] /wb_cfg GlobalOceanLevelCheckBeforePlacing [logical values (true or false)] /wb_cfg GlobalOceanLevelBaseline [fractions (like 1.2345) between -1000.00 and 1000.00] /wb_cfg CargoShipPathHandling ["Warn", "Prevent" or "None"] /wb_cfg MinDistanceFromCargoShipNode [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 10000.00] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsCollectJunk [logical values (true or false)] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsRandomTimerMin [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 10000.00] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsRandomTimerMax [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 10000.00] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsItemLimit [integers (like 12345) between 0 and 100] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSpawnSharks [logical values (true or false)] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkRandomTimerMin [fractions (like 1.2345) between 1.00 and 100000.0] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkRandomTimerMax [fractions (like 1.2345) between 1.00 and 100000.0] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkTimerShortenByPercent [fractions (like 1.2345) between 1.00 and 100000.0] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkSpawningMinDistance [fractions (like 1.2345) between 2.00 and 100000.0] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkSpawningMaxDistance [fractions (like 1.2345) between 2.00 and 100000.0] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkPopulationLimitLocal [integers (like 12345) between 0 and 1000] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkPopulationLimitGlobal [integers (like 12345) between 0 and 1000] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkSleepDespawnTimer [fractions (like 1.2345) between 2.00 and 100000.0] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkHealthMultiplier [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.001 and 100.0] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkSpeedMultiplier [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.001 and 100.0] /wb_cfg UnderwaterNetsSharkAggroRange [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.001 and 100.0] /wb_cfg SharkHarvestingLootEnabled [logical values (true or false)] /wb_cfg GuiNEW1AnchorMinX [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiNEW2AnchorMinY [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiNEW3AnchorMaxX [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiNEW4AnchorMaxY [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiNEW5OffsetMinX [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiNEW6OffsetMinY [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiNEW7OffsetMaxX [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiNEW8OffsetMaxY [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiTextSize [integers (like 12345) between 0 and 100] /wb_cfg GuiButtonColor [hexadecimal numbers WITHOUT preceding # (like 3db4b3)] /wb_cfg GuiTextColor [hexadecimal numbers WITHOUT preceding # (like 3db4b3)] /wb_cfg GuiButtonAlpha [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg GuiTextAlpha [fractions (like 1.2345) between 0.00 and 1.00] /wb_cfg EnableBarrelEntities [logical values (true or false)] Advanced config (only editable through oxide/config/WaterBases.json) Water foundation crafting cost Here you can adjust how much it costs to craft water foundations. Make it more expensive, less expensive, or add/remove required materials. The cost will stay the same for all permission profiles. A full list of short names for items can be found at https://www.corrosionhour.com/rust-item-list/ "CraftingCostSquare": [ { "Shortname": "wood", "Amount": 100 }, { "Shortname": "metal.fragments", "Amount": 200 } ], "CraftingCostTriangle": [ { "Shortname": "wood", "Amount": 50 }, { "Shortname": "metal.fragments", "Amount": 100 } ], Shortname should belong to one of the available items in-game. The amount should be a whole number larger than 0 and smaller than the limit of a signed 32-bit integer (2 147 483 647). Permission profiles Using profiles you can quickly create/edit different permissions for different players, for example, if you have more than 1 VIP tier on your server - just add some new profiles. Different players can have different limits and permissions associated with building water bases. To check which permission profile the player should fall under, the plugin goes through all permission profiles and checks whether the player has that permission granted. The permissions are checked in order, meaning that if the player doesn't have the first permission, it will try the next permission on the list, etc (similar to how Auto Kits checks which kit to give to a player based on their permissions in order). If the player doesn't have any permissions from the list granted, they will fall back to the "default" profile. That's the only one that you shouldn't remove! If you remove it, a new one with default values will be created. So if you don't want your default, non-VIP players to build water bases, don't remove the default profile, just take away privileges in that profile (like deploying/expanding/reinforcing). You don't have to use the built-in VIP permissions - any permission from any plugin will do just fine! By default, three permission profiles are generated in the config: default, waterbases.admin and waterbases.vip1. The default permission profile will apply to any player who doesn't have any permissions listed in the profile list - let's have a look at it: "PermissionProfiles": { "default": { "PermissionRequired": "default", "MaxBuildingGradeGeneric": "Wood", "MaxBuildingGradeFrames": "Stone", "MaxBuildingGradeWaterFoundations": "Metal", "WaterDepthMin": 2.0, "WaterDepthMax": 100.0, "MaxWaterFoundationsPerBuilding": 25, "MinDistanceFromOilrig": 200.0, "MinDistanceFromShore": 2.0, "MaxDistanceFromShore": 20.0, "CanDeployWaterFoundations": true, "CanReinforceWaterFoundations": true, "CanExpandWaterFoundations": true, "CanExpandReinforcedFoundations": true, "CanCraftWaterFoundations": true, "RequireMaterialsForCrafting": true, "WorkbenchLevelRequired": 2.0, "CanDeployUnderwaterNets": true, } PermissionRequired should contain an already existing permission registered by any plugin in the form of pluginname.permissionname MaxBuildingGradeGeneric, MaxBuildingGradeFrames andMaxBuildingGradeWaterFoundations define the highest allowed grade for a particular part of a water base. Generic means anything that's not a water foundation or a door/floor frame (that includes normal floors, walls, half walls, and inverse foundations). For those 3 settings, the accepted options are "Twigs", "Wood", "Stone", "Metal" or "TopTier". Set all of them to "TopTier" if you don't want any tier limits on water bases. WaterDepthMin and WaterDepthMax define the allowed range for water depth when placing water foundations - to make sure that certain players are not building in water that is too shallow/too deep. The unit meters. MaxWaterFoundationsPerBuilding is what it sounds like it will prevent a player under this permission profile from adding more water foundations to a water base, limiting their size. Set to a large value like 100000 for virtually no limits. MinDistanceFromOilrig will define the minimum distance from the closest oilrig (in meters) that has to be respected before placing a water foundation down. Decrease to let players build closer, increase to make them build farther away. MinDistanceFromShore and MaxDistanceFromShore both rely on your map topology. If you're sure that you're quite close to the shore, but the /shore_distance command shows you ridiculous values, it means your map does not have the topology map painted properly (contact the map dev and let them know!). In that case, you should set the RelyOnShoreDistance option in the config to false and instead rely on water depth (if shore distance is enabled, it will rely on both). The unit here is not a meter, but roughly 1/10th of a map grid (around 15 meters). CanDeployWaterFoundations if set to true, will allow players using this profile to deploy newly started foundations (using the doughnut guide, provided they have a properly shaped water foundation item to be consumed). CanReinforceWaterFoundations if set to true, will allow players using this profile to reinforce water foundations by hitting them with a hammer (provided they have a properly shaped water foundation item to be consumed). CanExpandWaterFoundations if set to true, will allow players using this profile to build more water foundations upon already existing ones by placing neighboring floors with their building plan (provided they have a properly shaped water foundation item to be consumed). CanExpandReinforcedFoundations if set to true, will allow players using this profile to attach a floor to the side of a reinforcement foundation - and as long as they have 2 water foundation items in their inventory, they will expand that reinforced foundation along with its water foundation. CanCraftWaterFoundations if set to true, will allow players using this profile to craft water foundations using a GUI in the bottom-right (showing while a Building Plan is equipped). Profiles with this setting set to false won't display those GUIs and players will have to find other ways of obtaining water foundations (loot, kits, server rewards etc). RequireMaterialsForCrafting if set to true, players using this profile will need to have required crafting materials in their inventory when trying to craft a Water Foundation. If set to false, the player will be able to craft an infinite amount of water foundations for free, so use them with caution. WorkbenchLevelRequired Set to 0.0 (no workbench nearby required), 1.0 (Level 1 required), 2.0 (Level 2 required) or 3.0 (Level 3 required) for crafting Water Foundations. CanDeployUnderwaterNets if set to true, players will be able to deploy nettings in underwater wall frames. Those settings will slowly accumulate underwater junk items if the feature is enabled on your server - look below for the loot table configuration. Underwater junk & Netting Shark loot tables If you have not disabled underwater nets collecting junk, this is where you can adjust the kind and rarity of certain items. You can even remove entries and add your own, including a custom skin and item name! A "loot table" is perhaps not the right term, as the list contains individual chances of a "caught" item being of a particular kind. There can be only 1 item caught at a time, and the table defines random weights for every possible entry. The larger the weight (compared to the sum of all weights), the bigger chance of encountering a particular item. So if you have 10 entries and each of them have a weight of 1, each item will have an equal 10% chance of being one of the random entries in the list (as the weights sum up to 10). Thus you can have some items really common, and some of them really rare. Here are 2 sample entries from the list: { "Shortname": "innertube", "CustomName": null, "SkinID": 2484982352, "RandomChanceWeight": 1.0, "MinRandomAmount": 1, "MaxRandomAmount": 1 }, { "Shortname": "innertube", "CustomName": null, "SkinID": 2485021365, "RandomChanceWeight": 1.0, "MinRandomAmount": 1, "MaxRandomAmount": 1 }, Shortname is the most important bit - make sure it's correct! You can find a link to a full list of those names above. CustomName lets you give items caught in the netting different names. You can leave that null to leave a default item name. In this example, the two items are water foundations - the proper name for those items will be applied automatically by the plugin anyway. Whatever you type there, make sure to encompass it in quotes, like "CustomName": "My Custom Item Name" if it's not null! SkinID is pretty self-explanatory - it's the long number in the URL of a Steam Workshop item. By default, it's 0 (no skin). RandomChanceWeight lets you decide the item's rarity when spawning - relative to the rarity of other items. Increase or decrease this number (it can be fractional) to make the item more or less rare. MinRandomAmount and MaxRandomAmount are what they sound like - they should both be larger than 0 (whole numbers) and when that particular item is caught, the stack will contain an amount between these two numbers. Translation support (oxide/lang/en/WaterBases.json) Almost every string the players see, including names for the water foundation items and messages displaying in the chat and the GUI, can be edited. Just load the plugin and let it generate the file - after you edit it, reload the plugin.

Grid Power rust plugin allows players to harness electricity directly from the Power Grid on any map by climbing Power line Poles to upgrade Transformers with components and protect their grid section, while also enhancing vanilla visuals with realistic, adjustable slack on hanging wires and lights. Questions? Support? Join the discord: https://discord.nikhub.dev In short Draw electricity straight from the Power Grid in Rust - on any map, be it a procedurally generated or a custom one! Ladder up the Power line Poles to upgrade their Transformers with components like Root Combiners (to replace missing/stolen/destroyed outlets that you plug into) and Tech Trash (to permanently upgrade power output level, up to a configurable point). Maintain the service with long-lasting Fuses. But most importantly, protect your precious part of the grid from vandalism, theft and sabotage that will inevitably come from those jealous players! Whatever you do, just be careful up there... high voltage happens to be highly dangerous. Always wear protective gear (like a hazmat suit) and don't touch the wires while they're live! As a bonus, this plugin also improves vanilla visuals with realistically hanging wires / hoses / Xmas lights, the slack of which (how loose they appear to be hanging) can be adjusted while placing. And this feature is completely optional, too. Goodbye, straight lines that look like steel rods - hello, actual laws of physics! But don't take my word for it - let the video speak for itself: Still not convinced? Check out this in-depth, 20+ minutes long review and tutorial by srtbull! 1.0.2 UPDATE: Introducing working Street Lights for eligible poles! The lights go on between between 20:00 and 8:00 by default. Quick start (for admins) Upload the GridPower.cs file to your oxide/plugins folder and you should be good to go, it's all plug-and-play. No need to restart your server! If you're loading it for the first time or it's a new map wipe, the plugin will automatically locate all Power Line Prefabs on your map, randomly choose some of them (according to chances set in the default config) and attach extra electrical entities to them to make them functional. Those entities should persist throughout the wipe and will be replaced if missing, on every plugin reload/server restart. Each Power line Pole will be assigned a number and its position will be stored in the data. This will work on any map that contains at least one of the following prefabs: assets/bundled/prefabs/autospawn/decor/powerline-small/powerline_pole_a.prefab assets/content/props/powerline_poles/powerline_pole_a.prefab Quick start (for players) Locating functional Transformers Not all Power Line Poles were made equally. Only a percentage of them (by default, 33% on average) will be functional. How do you recognise a functional one? Look up - if you see a Button attached to the top of the Pole, and maybe even some pre-existing Root Combiner Outlets, that's it! [insert image here, maybe a player looking at a powerline pole with binoculars] Laddering Up Now that you have located a functional pole, you need to climb it. Normally you cannot deploy Ladders on Power Line Poles and many other places (but oddly enough, you CAN deploy them on the horizontal planks at the top of a Pole!). However, Grid Power re-implements all the client-sided deployment logic to allow bypassing of that arbitrary-seeming limitation. If you try to deploy a Ladder on a Power Line Pole, don't be discouraged by the fact that the "ghost guide" is red instead of blue/amber. Click anyway and it will force it through! Ignore the message in the chat saying that the deployment failed - just like the colour of the ghost guide, it's all client-sided and as such there's nothing the plugin can do about it, visually speaking. But trust me, everything works as intended, despite what the client messages are telling you. The Ladders can then be destroyed/picked up to be reused. Maintenance A Transformer can have up to 4 Outlets (Root Combiners). That's where the players draw the electricity from. Those Root Combiners can be damaged/destroyed/repaired/picked up with a hammer (if you have Building Privilege) any time. If there's less than 4 Outlets, right-click on a Root Combiner Item in your inventory or drag it into the Fuse Box of the Transformer. You will hear a deployment effect and the Root Combiner will be deployed on the pole. In order to be able to draw power from that Transformer, you need to put a Fuse inside. Right-click a Fuse in your inventory or drag it directly to the Fuse Box. Don't worry - inside of the Transformers, those Fuses will last for much, MUCH longer than inside regular monument Fuse Boxes. By default, a brand new Fuse inside of a Transformer Fuse Box will last you for 12000 seconds (= 200 minutes, = 3.33 hours). This value can be increased or decreased in the config. You can see how much time a fuse has left in the Transformer GUI. By default, the Power Grid will produce electricity between 8 AM and 8 PM. The power output will follow a smooth curve, being the lowest in the morning/evening, and peaking at 2 PM. Exactly how much RWs will be produced on each Outlet is determined by the Transformer's Tech Trash level. By default, each Tech Trash inserted increases the peak power output by 5 RWs (up until a certain point - by default, that level is capped at 50, which translates to 250 RWs per Outlet at peak hours). Upgrade the level by right-clicking the Tech Trash item in your inventory or dragging it directly into the Fuse Box. Inserting Root Combiners/Tech Trash is still possible even if there's already a Fuse inside of the Fuse Box. The Fuse won't be replaced as the sole Item in the slot, since Root Combiners/Tech Trash are consumed immediately. Hooking Up & Hanging Out Once there's at least 1 Outlet present, you have a Fuse at hand, and the Grid is currently producing power - you're all set. Take a Wire Tool, pick your favourite wire colour with the [RELOAD] button, typically R, and connect to the outputs of the Root Combiner Outlets to your own electrical devices, usually a Battery or another Root Combiner. You will notice the text on top of your screen telling you what the current Slack of your wire tool / hose tool is. You can increase it with the [DUCK] button, typically CTRL, and decrease it with the [SPRINT] button, typically SHIFT. Larger Slack value means that the wire/hose will appear to be hanging more loosely. Smaller values will make it look tighter. Values close to zero will make it look like they look in vanilla Rust - i.e. not so good in comparison The final Slack value will be applied the moment you finalise your wire/hose connection. This hanging improvement applies to anything you do with Wire Tools/Hose Tools, not just Transformer Outlet connections! For the Advanced Xmas Lights, it's even better: you can adjust the Slack of each segment individually! After you place the Advanced Xmas Lights segment down, and you're just about to place the next segment, adjust the Slack of the segment you have just placed down with [DUCK] and [SPRINT] buttons. You will see a preview of what it will make the segment look like. Placing the next segment down confirms the Slack for the segment before it. Danger! High Voltage! If the Grid is currently producing Power (by default, during daytime) AND a Fuse is inserted in the Transformer, all Root Combiner Outlets are considered live on that Transformer. You can tell whether a Transformer is live or not: first, check your electric devices plugged in directly to the Grid. If they're not currently receiving any charge, they're not live. Similarly, you can look at the diodes on the Root Combiner Outlets. If they're not on, the Transformer is not live either. Lastly, it's pretty clear from the Transformer GUI. If a player tries to connect/disconnect a wire to/from a live Outlet, or they're trying to pick up the Root Combiner Outlet with a hammer, and they're not wearing one of the items on a pre-approved list (see the Advanced Config section below), there is a 1.0 (100%) chance they will get electrocuted to death. Another way to guarantee electrocution is trying to clear connections named INTERNAL. Leave those alone! Wearing protective clothing reduces that chance to 1 in 10 (10%, according to the default permission profile - see below). You can set that chance to 0.0 (0%) if you want to give your players a peace of mind. Another way to guarantee 0% electrocution chance is making sure the Transformer is not live: either wait for the Grid to stop producing Power or take out the Fuse before doing anything else. Permissions (Oxide.Grant user YourName [permission name starting with gridpower.]) By default, the plugin generates 3 permission profiles in the config - one for admins, one for normal players with no specific permissions (default) and one for VIP. More on permission profiles and config values they can handle can be found in the section Advanced Config. Unless you have added more permission profiles, only these two below are going to be used by your config: gridpower.admin Holders of the admin permission will also be able to run the /gp_cfg and /gp_emergency_cleanup commands gridpower.vip1 Holders of this permission will follow settings and limits associated with with that permission profile. The permissions below are also registered, but not used by default. To use them, just create some permission profiles with those permissions as the key. gridpower.vip2 gridpower.vip3 gridpower.vip4 gridpower.vip5 Automatic street lights Depending on your map design, some power line poles might have lamps on them. All those lamps will now emit light, by default between 20:00 an 8:00, which just so happens to be the time when the grid production goes back to 0. You can also set the street lights to be always on, regardless of the time of day. The time settings for the street lights are independent of your power production time settings - they can overlap, one can start before midnight and end after midnight while the other one does not, etc. Those street lights will work even on non-functional power line poles, e.g those without a button on top of them. When on, the lights will flicker from time to time. How often they will flicker and how long individual flickers are going to be depends on your config - look below. Admin F1 console/chat commands (must have ownerid/moderatorid/gridpower.admin permission) If you're typing those commands from the F1 console or the server console, drop the preceding slash in the command name. /gp_cfg Will allow the admins to change non-permission profile related config values on the fly (see below) /gp_emergency_cleanup Instantly kills all the plugin-related entities: fuseboxes, admin generators, root combiners and buttons. It won't remove the power line entries in your data, however. All the killed entities will be re-generated according to your current generation settings in the config next time your server restarts or the plugin reloads. If you want to permanently get rid of them, unload the plugin, delete your oxide/data/GridPower.json, and load it back in. /gp_pole [add/remove] This command will allow admins to add or remove functional power line poles at any time. Just look directly at the pole you want to modify and type the command with an argument (either "add" or "remove", depending on what you want to achieve). If you want to add a pole and it already is functional, or if you want to remove a pole, but it isn't functional - you will get a warning. Same if you try to add a pole, but the pole you're looking at is building blocked by a nearby monument. "Ent killing" (or using a plugin like Remover) the power line fusebox is the equivalent of permanently removing it from the data and it won't be re-generated any more on next reload. Wiping your save file also automatically removes all the extra components and replaces them with new ones tailored to your map, in accordance to your generation settings. Configuration (oxide/config/GridPower.json and /gp_cfg console/chat command) Vast majority of the settings can be configured with the /gp_cfg chat command. Typing it in the chat/console with no parameters should dump a rundown of config fields and their values. In order to run any of the config commands, you will need to have ownerid or moderatorid (or the gridpower.admin permission). /gp_cfg GridConstantPower [logical values (true or false)] If set to true, the Grid will always produce electricity at its peak (100%), 24 hours a day (DEFAULT: false) /gp_cfg GridProductionStartAtHour [fractions (like 13.37) between 0.00 and 24.00] The hour of the day when the power production starts climbing up from 0 (DEFAULT: 8.0) /gp_cfg GridProductionEndAtHour [fractions (like 0.69, nice) between 0.00 and 24.00] The hour of the day when the power production settles back at 0 (DEFAULT: 20.0) /gp_cfg StreetlightsConstantPower [logical values (true or false)] If set to true, the Streetlights will be on 24 hours a day. (DEFAULT: FALSE) /gp_cfg StreetlightsTurnOnAtHour [fractions (like 20.4) between 0.00 and 24.00] The hour of the day when the street lights turn on (DEFAULT: 20.0) /gp_cfg StreetlightsTurnOffAtHour [fractions (like 8.2) between 0.00 and 24.00] The hour of the day when the street lights turn off (DEFAULT: 8.0) /gp_cfg StreetlightsReliability [fractions (like 0.5) between 0.00 and 1.00] The reliability of the streetlight. The less it is, the more often it will flicker. At 1, which represents 100%, it never flickers. (DEFAULT: 0.95) /gp_cfg StreetlightsFlickerLengthMin [fractions (like 1.2) between 0.00 and Positive Infinity] The minimum random length of the flicker, in seconds (DEFAULT: 0.1) /gp_cfg StreetlightsFlickerLengthMax [fractions (like 2.4) between 0.00 and Positive Infinity] The maximum random length of the flicker, in seconds (DEFAULT: 0.5) /gp_cfg GeneratorChancePowerlineFunctional [fractions (like 0.5) between 0.00 and 1.00] The chance that a valid Power Line Pole will be made functional during generation. (DEFAULT: 0.33) /gp_cfg FuseRequired [logical values (true or false)] If set to false, the Transformers won't need Fuses to produce power, just the right time of the day (if power is not 24/7) (DEFAULT: TRUE) /gp_cfg BuildingBlockPreventsButtonPress [logical values (true or false)] If set to true, if there's any Tool Cupboards in the range of the Transformer, you need to be authorised on all of them to open the Transformer GUI (DEFAULT: TRUE) /gp_cfg GeneratorInitialLevelMin [integers (like 7) between 0 and 1000] The lower limit for the random Tech Trash level of valid Power Line Poles during generation (DEFAULT: 1) /gp_cfg GeneratorInitialLevelMax [integers (like 7) between 0 and 1000] The upper limit for the random Tech Trash level of valid Power Line Poles during generation (DEFAULT: 5) /gp_cfg GeneratorInitialOutletsMin [integers (like 1) between 0 and 4] The lower limit for the random number of Outlets of valid Power Line Poles during generation (DEFAULT: 0) /gp_cfg GeneratorInitialOutletsMax [integers (like 3) between 0 and 4] The upper limit for the random number of Outlets of valid Power Line Poles during generation (DEFAULT: 4) /gp_cfg PowerlinePowerPerTechTrash [integers (like 7) between 0 and 1000] How much RWs at peak hours are provided per 1 Tech Trash Level upgrade (DEFAULT: 5) /gp_cfg PowerlineMaxTechTrashLevel [integers (like 7) between 0 and 1000] The maximum level that a Transformer can be upgraded to (DEFAULT: 50) /gp_cfg PowerlineFuseDurationSeconds [fractions (like 420.69, nice) between 0.0 and Infinity] How long (in seconds) a brand new Fuse inserted in the Transformer Fusebox will last (DEFAULT: 12000.0) /gp_cfg FuseItemShortname [strings (like "fuse")] The shortname of the item that acts as the Fuse for Transformer Fuseboxes, must be a valid Rust item shortname /gp_cfg FuseItemGuiName [strings (like "Transformer Fuse")] The custom GUI display name of the item that acts as the Fuse for Transformer Fuseboxes, can be anything, or left blank for default /gp_cfg FuseItemSkinID [positive long integers (like 2783151202)] The skin ID of the Fuse item if using custom, leave at 0 to accept any items of the shortname specified by FuseItemShortname Protective clothing (only editable through oxide/config/GridPower.json) "ProtectiveClothing": { "hazmatsuit": null, "scientistsuit_heavy": null, "hazmatsuit_scientist": null, "hazmatsuit_scientist_peacekeeper": null, "hazmatsuit.spacesuit": null, "boots.frog": null, "hazmatsuit.nomadsuit": null, "pants": [ 1581896222 ], "hoodie": [ 1581890527, 1582492745 ] }, Each entry has a key (the item shortname in quotes) and a value. If the value is null, it means all possible skins for that item shortname are accepted. In the example above, we're allowing all rubbery one-pieces (value is null, so any skin) and we're also allowing pants with 1 possible skin or a hoodie with 2 possible skins to be treated as protective clothing. You will see that there's no comma after the last entry on the list. BEFORE SAVING, ALWAYS VALIDATE YOUR JSON WITH A TOOL LIKE JSON LINT! Permission profiles Using profiles you can quickly create/edit different permissions for different players, for example, if you have more than 1 VIP tier on your server - just add some new profiles. Different players can have different limits and permissions associated with using the Power Grid. To check which permission profile the player should fall under, the plugin goes through all permission profiles and checks whether the player has that permission granted. The permissions are checked in order, meaning that if the player doesn't have the first permission, it will try the next permission on the list, etc (similar to how Auto Kits checks which kit to give to a player based on their permissions in order). If the player doesn't have any permissions from the list granted, they will fall back to the "default" profile. That's the only one that you shouldn't remove! If you remove it, a new one with default values will be created. So if you don't want your default, non-VIP players to use the power grid, don't remove the default profile, just take away privileges in that profile (like upgrading/deploying ladders/pressing the button). You don't have to use the built-in VIP permissions - any REGISTERED permission from any plugin will do just fine! By default, three permission profiles are generate in the config: default, gridpower.admin and gridpower.vip1. The default permission profile will apply to any player who doesn't have any permissions listed in the profile list - let's have a look at it: "PermissionProfiles": { "default": { "PermissionRequired": "default", "GridCanDeployLadder": true, "GridCanDeployRootCombiners": true, "GridCanConnectDisconnect": true, "GridCanPressButton": true, "GridCanUpgrade": true, "GridDangerousWireElectricutionChance": 0.1, "HangingXmasLights": false, "HangingWiresAndHoses": false, "SubdivisionsPreview": 10, "SubdivisionsFinal": 50, "SlackMax": 5.0 }, PermissionRequired should contain an already existing permission registered by any plugin in the form of pluginname.permissionname GridCanDeployLadder allows players to deploy ladders on Power Line Poles GridCanDeployRootCombiners allows players to deploy Root Combiners on Power Line Pole transformers by inserting them into the Fuse Box GridCanConnectDisconnect allows players to use a Wire Tool to connect their own electrical devices to the Grid GridCanPressButton allows players to access the Transformer GUI GridCanUpgrade allows the players to upgrade the Transformer peak output by inserting Tech Trash into the Fuse Box GridDangerousWireElectricutionChance defines how likely it is that a player will die from electrical accidents, even while wearing protective clothing HangingXmasLights allows the players more control over how much the Advanced Xmas Lights will be hanging (purely visual) HangingWiresAndHoses allows the players more control over how much the Wires/Hoses will be hanging (purely visual) SubdivisionsPreview is the number of intermediary points used while showing the hanging Xmas Lights preview catenary curve of the last placed segment. The more points, the smoother it looks. (purely visual) SubdivisionsFinal is it the number of intermediary points used for the final catenary curve of the hanging wires/hoses/xmas lights. The more points, the smoother it looks (purely visual) SlackMax sets the maximum "looseness" of the wire/hose/xmas lights that the player is allowed. The more the slack, the longer the wire appears overall. API hooks (for plugin developers) All methods utilise the [HookMethod] attribute, which means you don't call them through Interface.Call, you need to first create this field in your plugin's main class... [PluginReference] private Plugin GridPower; Then, call the hooks like so. It's pretty self-explanatory what information they will provide you with. bool isPowerConstant = (bool) GridPower.Call("GridPowerIsConstant"); bool isGridProducing = (bool) GridPower.Call("GridIsProducing"); float productionHourStart = (float) GridPower.Call("GridGetProductionHourStart"); float productionHourEnd = (float) GridPower.Call("GridGetProductionHourEnd"); float currentGridEfficiency = (float) GridPower.Call("GridGetEfficiency"); bool areStreetlightsAlwaysOn = (bool) GridPower.Call("StreetlightsPowerIsConstant"); bool areStreetlightsOn = (bool) GridPower.Call("StreetlightsAreOn"); float streetlightsHourStart = (float) GridPower.Call("StreetlightsGetTurnOnHour"); float streetlightsHourEnd = (float) GridPower.Call("StreetlightsGetTurnOffHour"); Translation support (oxide/lang/en/GridPower.json) Almost every string the players see, including the text displaying in the chat and the GUI, can be edited. Just load the plugin and let it generate the file - after you edit it, reload the plugin.

Introducing portable 3 x 3 bases in a box - that you can carry in your inventory! Deploy them and open them to go inside - to store, craft, smelt, grow, party... live. Expand and maintain the upkeep to protect from raiders. Pick them up and deploy somewhere else. Think outside of the box... and inside too! Questions? Support? Join the discord: https://discord.nikhub.dev WATCH THE TUTORIAL BY SRTBULL! AS FEATURED BY SHADOWFRAX! (around 0:55 mark) Just like the TARDIS from Doctor Who, they're bigger on the inside! In the "real" Rust world, an entire 9x9x9 metre large (over 25000 cubic foot) Pocket Dimension fits neatly inside of a Small Wooden Box. You can skin that box any way you like to camouflage or disguise it - whatever the player's Workshop Skins / server skin plugins allow. Players can convert existing buildings into Pocket Dimensions easily with one button in the Tool Cupboard's UI. Or if that's too much of an effort, entire, fresh, ready-to-be-moved-in Copy Paste files can be sold as boxes with your own, custom defined skin - this is entirely optional and requires Copy Paste, more on that in the dedicated section below. Whether to allow either approach is entirely up to your configuration. By default, the configuration allows raiding the Pocket Dimensions in several different ways - but if you're planning on running this plugin on a PVE server and you don't want any of that, there's many configuration options that can be adjusted to enhance your server experience. Both styles of servers have their own dedicated sections on this page - just read below. Make sure you maintain the integrity of your Pocket Dimension! If any of the external structures (wall/doorway) of the Pocket Dimension building either 1) decays 2) is raided 3) is removed by an admin/plugin, or 4) the box housing the dimension itself gets destroyed, the Dimension will Collapse, teleporting all players inside of it, and dropping all contents of storage containers, turrets, the Tool Cupboard, and anything else that can store any items, to the location where the box is/was last deployed. Easy come, easy go! You can pick the Pocket Dimension boxes up and move them somewhere else at any time, and everything will still be there. You can even deploy Pocket Dimensions inside Pocket Dimensions inside Pocket Dimensions... a box-ception! By default, the configuration does not allow picking up boxes with players inside of them, but you can toggle this setting. Quick Start As an admin: make sure you grant your groups/players appropriate permissions from the list below. Make sure Copy Paste, No Escape and Server Rewards / Economics are loaded in and configured properly, if you're planning on utilising any of the extended capabilities. More on the support for those plugins below. That also goes for any potentially compatible plugins that dispense/support skinned box templates from the config, like Kits or Shop by Mevent, or Copy Paste - based plugins, like Raidable Bases. As a player: make a 3 x 3 x 3 cube that meets the validity requirements (more on that below) - if you have the proper permission and the appropriate amount of required currency, open the Tool Cupboard and press the pink "Convert to Pocket Dimension" button. If built correctly, you will now receive a box containing that entire cube inside. Alternatively, deploy a new Small Wooden Box skinned with a skin ID mentioned in the config that references a valid Copy Paste template - no construction by players necessary, but still possible. This plugin comes with several pre-built, already known to be valid Pocket Dimensions, ready to be enjoyed by your players. Permissions (Oxide.Grant user YourName [permission name starting with pocketdimensions.]) This plugin utilises the plain Oxide permission system. For a quick setup on a typical server, grant yourself the pocketdimensions.admin permission, and grant the default group in Oxide the pocketdimensions.player.all permission. pocketdimensions.admin - this permission is required to execute the admin commands mentioned in the section Admin Commands just below this section. pocketdimensions.player.all - this permission is the quick-start equivalent of giving all 4 permissions mentioned below. Don't grant this if you want a more customised permission setup. For example, if you don't want to allow respawning inside and converting by players, and you only want to allow deployment/pickup and entering/exiting, use the combination of the 4 permissions below. pocketdimensions.deploy.pickup - holders of this permission can deploy and pick up Pocket Dimension boxes, be it already existing ones and fresh ones based on skin ID/Copy Paste file combo in your config. Of course, this takes into account building block/other conditions, too. pocketdimensions.player.enter.exit - holders of this permission can enter Pocket Dimensions by opening their boxes, and exit them by interacting with their portals. If a player doesn't have that permission, they will be informed upon opening/interaction, and barred from traversing in/out. pocketdimensions.player.convert - holders of this permission can create new Pocket Dimensions by converting an existing building from its Tool Cupboard's UI - as long as they have the required amount of currency (certain required item / Server Rewards / Economics), and the building itself meets the structural requirements. Players without this permission won't even see the conversion button in the UI. pocketdimensions.player.respawn - holders of this permission can respawn on bags, beds and towels deployed inside Pocket Dimensions. If a player doesn't have that permission, and a bag is deployed by them (or someone else bags them in) inside a Pocket Dimension, the players will not see that bag on their Death Screen as a possible respawn location. Admin Commands (require the pocketdimensions.admin permission) These commands can be executed both from console and the chat - in case of chat, they must be prefixed with a forward slash ( / ), and in case of console, no forward slash. /pd.check Come close to a TC and look directly at it, then issue this command from the chat or F1 console. It will perform the validity check without actually converting anything. If any problems are found, it will tell you exactly what's wrong. Useful for making your own Copy Paste templates. /pd.convert Come close to a TC and look directly at it, then issue this command from the chat or F1 console. It will first perform the validity check. If any problems are found, it will tell you exactly what's wrong. Then, if no problems are found, it will convert the building into a Pocket Dimension and you will receive it as a deployable Small Wooden Box item. /pd.lostnfound When a Pocket Dimension Item despawns, is recycled, is placed in a container that gets destroyed, or is otherwise removed from the world, the Dimension that it represents will be marked as "lost". This special marking will NOT happen as long as the Item still exists in a container (including players' inventories) somewhere in the World. Pocket Dimensions marked as "lost" can then be reclaimed as a newly created Item tied to the building by an admin, deployed and inspected, and given back to the rightful owner... or Collapsed by the admin, if the admin has a hunch that the player "lost" their dimension on purpose so nobody would be able to access anything while the player was offline. Using this command will either give you ALL newly reclaimed box items (so make sure you have room in your inventory), or it will tell you there's nothing in the lost-and-found to be reclaimed. /pd.givebox [skin ID or Copy Paste filename] [optionally: player partial name / full steam ID] Use this command to create a Small Wooden Box item, skinned with a special skin mentioned in your config, and then given to a player. A new Pocket Dimension based on the Copy Paste template will be created inside of that box the first time it's deployed somewhere. This command requires Copy Paste to be installed to work properly, and a properly set up Skin ID - to - Copy Paste filename entries in your config. The filenames mentioned must exist in your Copy Paste data folder, too. Use the first parameter to identify the template mentioned in your Copy Paste section of the config either by its skin ID or its Copy Paste file name. Multiple skin IDs can lead to the same Copy Paste filename, so if you're identifying the template by filename, the skin ID of the first entry in your config that leads to this file name will be picked as the skin of the newly created and given box. If the optional second parameter is not provided, it will be assumed a freshly skinned box should be given to the player executing this command - typically an admin. This command can be used by plugins that support executing commands with the STEAM ID or player name parameter. /pd.emergencycleanup Use this as a last resort to completely get rid of ALL Pocket Dimensions entities on the server for whatever reason. This is a very experimental plugin after all and things COULD go wrong... This includes all the Pocket Dimension buildings, their contents, loot inside of them, and the boxes containing Pocket Dimensions deployed in the world. If a dimension was not deployed as a box, but held as an Item in a container, those items will NOT be removed, but when deployed, the player will be informed that its associated Pocket Dimension was raided or decayed away. USE WITH CAUTION, THIS COMMAND CANNOT BE UNDONE. Those are all the admin commands so far. There's no player commands, as I consider them to be the last resort option when there's just no other elegant way of player input/interaction. What makes buildings "valid" candidates to be used as a Pocket Dimension? Not every building is viable to be converted. Generally speaking, a 3 x 3 x 3 cube with exactly 1 external single doorway anywhere on the side must be constructed - and nothing else on the outside (apart from the potential exception for Solar Panels / Wind Turbines on the roof, if your config allows them). The building blocks can be of any tier or a mix of tiers - from Twig to Armoured. It doesn't matter what's inside of the cube, only the outer "shell" matters. Once converted into a Pocket Dimension, players can build/expand/demolish inside just like they would with regular bases. To be more specific, when a check for the validity of a building is made, the following criteria are tested for, and the answer to each consecutive question must be "yes" before the test proceeds to the next question - if the answer is "no", the player will be informed of the reason: Does the building have exactly 9 square foundations overall? Does the building have exactly 9 square floors overall (presumably, for the ceilings)? Does the building have at least 1 single doorway overall? Does the building have at least 35 normal walls overall? Are the 9 square foundations all at the same level? For each of the 9 square foundations, does it have a matching square floor for ceiling, exactly 9 metres above it? Is the building's middle foundation NOT marked as belonging to a Pocket Dimension already? Does the building have either a normal wall (or a single doorway, but only one) all 4 sides, and not a wall frame, window frame, or a missing building block, to make the shell "air-tight" and prevent players from falling out of the Dimension into the void? Does the building have exactly 1 single doorway - no more, no less - on the external shell? Is the only external doorway currently "empty", i.e. no doors / vending machines are deployed there at this moment? If the config doesn't allow Solar Panels / Wind Turbines placed on the ceiling, is the building free of those potentially forbidden structures? Are all the electrical/water entities inside of the 3 x 3 x 3 cube free of any wire/hose connections to entities outside of that cube? (if Solar Panels / Wind Turbines are allowed in your config, those entities get a special pass at this stage of the check) Is the building free of ANY entities "sticking out" from the 3 x 3 x 3 cube - for instance roofs, honeycombs, porches, SAM sites, stairs etc, or Solar Panels / Windmills if your config does not allow them? If the answer to all those questions is a resounding "yes" - don't worry, it's the plugin's job to ask and answer those, not you! - the building is considered valid and as such can be converted into a Pocket Dimension! You will be informed of the result, whether it was successful or not. Raiding Pocket Dimensions (only applies to the default PVP-enabled settings) This is the default behaviour on a fresh configuration. If you're planning on running this plugin on a PVE server (player vs. environment, i.e. no raiding/hurting between human players themselves), you can skip this section and go straight to the Recommended PVE Settings section below. There are two main ways of raiding a Pocket Dimension: From the inside, by damaging the building structures belonging to the external shell - either the wall or the doorway housing the exit portal From the outside, by damaging the deployed Pocket Dimension box. By default, no locks can be placed on boxes containing Pocket Dimensions, to allow players raiding from the inside, too - but this setting can be toggled if you only want players to raid the boxes in the boring way. Of course, anything INSIDE of the Pocket Dimension can - and should - be locked! When raiding from the outside, on default configuration, the dimensional box will take 2% (1/50) of the damage it would normally take if it were just a regular Small Wooden Box. In other words, on default configuration, it takes about 7-8 C4 charges to make the dimension inside of it Collapse (so more or less as much as an Armoured-tier foundation). Just like with regular vanilla building raids, the same strategies (or combinations of those) can be applied here, too: The Deep - get in, take the goods, get out, leave, say GG to the building owner, who gets to keep their Pocket Dimension. The quintessence of sportsmanship in Rust raiding. The Grief - get in, take the goods (or not), make the building unusable till it eventually decays (and the dimension Collapses), leave. Highly malicious, but sometimes the only option... The Yoink - get in, take the goods, re-seal the entrance, and claim the dimension as now yours. You might want to move its box to another location though. The End - get in, and immediately start damaging one of the external blocks of the shell (typically the doorway housing the exit portal, or a wall next to it - or even both!). As soon as one of the external shell elements is gone (or is "ent killed" by an admin, or removed with a plugin), the entire dimension Collapses. More on dimensional Collapses in the section below. Recommended PVE Settings (only applies to default PVE-enabled settings) This will require adjusting some config settings and reloading the plugin. If you're planning on running this plugin on a PVP server (player vs. player, i.e. raiding/hurting between human players allowed), go back to the Raiding Pocket Dimensions section above - most default settings should work fine in the majority of scenarios. To find out what each of these recommended settings does, check out the Configuration section below for details. "DimensionalBoxesSubtractItemConditionWhenPickingUp": 0.0, "DimensionalBoxesAllowLockingWithLocks": true, "DimensionalBoxesAllowDamage": false, "DimensionaBoxesDamageResistanceDivisor": 50.0, "DimensionalBoxesAlwaysHaveStability": true, "DimensionalBoxesCheckForPlayersInsideWhenPickingUp": false, "DimensionalBoxesCheckBuildingBlockOutsideWhenEnteringDimension": true, "DimensionalBoxesCheckTCAuthInsideWhenEnteringDimension": false, "DimensionalBoxesCheckTCAuthInsideWhenPickingUp": false, "DimensionalPocketsAllowSolarAndWindmill": true, "DimensionalPocketsTrapImmunityAfterTeleport": 5.0, "DimensionalPocketsExteriorBlocksAllowNonDecayDamage": false, "DimensionalPocketsActualAltitudeMin": 3200.0, "DimensionalPocketsActualAltitudeMax": 3900.0, "DimensionaPocketsAllowVendingMachineBroadcast": true, "EffectPlayerTeleportAppear": "assets/prefabs/missions/portal/proceduraldungeon/effects/appear.prefab", "EffectPlayerTeleportDisappear": "assets/prefabs/missions/portal/proceduraldungeon/effects/disappear.prefab", "EffectsPlayerTeleportEnable": true, Collapse of a Pocket Dimension All good things eventually come to an end. "Collapse" in this context means that a certain Pocket Dimension and all its associated entities get destroyed and in the end, it's as if the Pocket Dimension never existed at all - save for all the juicy loot dropped from it. This can happen when... The box containing a Pocket Dimension gets "ent killed" by an admin/plugin, or gets damaged to the point of destruction One of the external shell structures inside of the Pocket Dimension (wall/external doorway) gets "ent killed" by an admin plugin, or decays/gets damaged to the point of destruction The exit portal housed in the external doorway gets "ent killed" by an admin/plugin Under normal circumstances, on a typical PVP server, you only expect the Pocket Dimensions to Collapse when they decay away, are raided, or purposefully removed by an admin (by "ent killing" the box or the external shell structure). If the Dimensions suddenly disappear with no apparent reason, it probably comes from another plugin's functionality, for example Abandoned Bases - but that's a completely expected outcome in this case: the Pocket Dimensions should behave as much as normal bases on the server as possible! On the topic of Abandoned Bases, if you use that plugin, you should definitely NOT allow locks on boxes containing Pocket Dimensions - otherwise the now-unlocked abandoned Pocket Dimension won't be accessible, as the box itself will not count as a base, and it will stay locked! During the Collapse, the last known position of the box associated with the Dimension will serve as the nexus point, where... All players inside of the dimension, asleep or online, alive or as dead bodies or bodybags, will be teleported to the nexus point, unharmed All entities that have an inventory, i.e. something stored inside of them - TC, boxes, turrets, traps, lockers etc - will drop their grey loot bags at the nexus points, as if all those entities were raided at the same time All building blocks and other structures will die, crumbling with gibs at the nexus point If the collapsing Dimension also contains Pocket Dimensions inside of it, and so on (A.K.A. box-ception), the entire "tree" collapses as well, at the root. That way, the best way to raid is always at the Dimension deployed directly in the world (the first one in the "box-ception" sequence), because it involved the least materials and effort. Works great with CopyPaste (and any plugin utilising it, like Raidable Bases) This plugin is fully compatible with Copy Paste and includes it as an optional dependency: i.e. Copy Paste is not needed for Pocket Dimensions to operate, but can potentially enhance the player's experience with extra capabilities. It's strongly recommended. Both the uMod version and the custom patched version distributed to work with Raidable Bases will work. As an admin, you can /copy and /paste a building and either convert it straight away (either with a command or in the Tool Cupboard UI), or just check if it's a valid candidate to be converted - more on validity below. You can also define some Skin IDs as special in the plugin configuration: when boxes with those particular skins are spawned for the first time (either being deployed by players, spawned/pasted by other plugins - Copy Paste itself or plugins utilising it, like Raidable Bases, or entirely separate plugins ), whatever Copy Paste filename you define, this box will be instantly made into a Pocket Dimension containing everything from the building that was copied under that name. And after that, the box can be re-skinned without any issues, too. You can also use the /pd.give command to give individual fresh Pocket Dimensions to players, by name or steam ID (look in the section Admin Commands above) from the server / F1 console or the chat - it's made in a way that shop/kit plugins relying on custom commands can utilise those easily. Useful if you don't want your players to convert their own buildings. Pocket Dimensions plugin even comes with a few predefined templates for those, so you can see how to set up your own. Just issue the /pd.give command without any arguments to get the list. If you want them to work properly, make sure you install the latest version of Copy Paste, and also upload the included Copy Paste files to the proper folder on your server. Compatible with Server Rewards / Economics Converting a valid building to a pocket dimension should NOT be free - and it isn't. By default, players need to deposit 500 Scrap into the TC - or have that amount ready in their inventory, both will work. You can adjust the amount and the shortname of the currency item in your config to your liking. You can even make it so that not only the shortname of this currency item is checked, but also its skin - useful if you have plugins that come with custom items. But you can also use Server Rewards or Economics as potential currencies, too! Check out the Configuration section above for more details. For this, either Server Rewards or Economics must be installed, depending on which one you want to use. Additionally, boxes with skin IDs mentioned in your config (leading to Copy Paste templates) can be sold in the Server Rewards shop, so it works both ways. Compatibility with No Escape If you don't use the No Escape plugin on your server, you can skip this section. Pocket Dimensions are just regular bases in many regards, so damaging any entities belonging to them will impose a Raid Block, and attacking any players inside will impose a Combat Block. Both of these count as an Escape Block. If this plugin detects that a player is Escape Blocked, several optional restrictions can be enabled/disabled in the Pocket Dimension config, to change how this Escape Block affects the gameplay for affected players: Entering Pocket Dimensions Exiting Pocket Dimensions Deploying Pocket Dimension Items into Boxes Picking up Pocket Dimension Boxes into Items Compatibility with other plugins Any plugin capable of issuing /utilising skinned items / spawning skinned Small Wooden Boxes, should work with Pocket Dimensions right out of the box (pun not intended). If there are any that have issues, please don't hesitate to let me know. Configuration (oxide/config/PocketDimensions.json) Below is a rundown of all the config values (and their defaults) that, combined with player permissions, will affect the gameplay on your server. Everything apart from the advanced stuff (like positioning/styling of the TC UI Button, or the CopyPaste templates) is explained in this section: "DimensionalBoxesSubtractItemConditionWhenPickingUp": 0.0, It would be highly inconvenient to be forced to constantly fix your Pocket Dimension box pretty much every time you pick it up, so this value will determine how much condition (in the range of 0.0 to 1.0, representing 0% to 100%) will be lost - and by default, it's 0.0, so the box will only lose condition when damaged. Set it to higher values (but never more than 1.0) to discourage players from moving their boxes too much, too effortlessly. "DimensionalBoxesAllowLockingWithLocks": false, Self-explanatory. By default, if a Key Lock or a Code Lock is placed on a Pocket Dimension box (be it automatically, with plugins, or manually, by players), the lock will just fall to the ground. It's to give the raiding players an opportunity to do the arguably HARDER option for raiding (statistically speaking) a dimension - from the inside. Set this to true to disable this behaviour and allow locks. "DimensionalBoxesAllowDamage": true, By default, boxes containing Pocket Dimensions will take damage - this enables the arguably easier raiding option, to raid from the outside, by destroying the box. How much damage is taken depends on the ResistanceDivisor value defined below. Set this to false if you want to make deployed Pocket Dimensions indestructible from the outside, by not letting players damage the box that contains it. "DimensionaBoxesDamageResistanceDivisor": 50.0, This value will determine how much stronger a Dimensional box is compared to its regular Small Wooden Box counterpart. For example, the default value of 50 means that it takes 50 times less damage, i.e 2% (1 divided over 50). Increase and decrease this value to make raiding from the outside harder or easier, accordingly. "DimensionalBoxesAlwaysHaveStability": true, This setting is true by default and it means that if a floor/foundation that the Dimensional box is placed on is suddenly destroyed, the box itself will remain floating in the air, instead of being destroyed along with it. It basically treats all boxes with Pocket Dimensions as if they were always placed directly on indestructible terrain. Of course, this never applies to Dimensions that are collapsing - no child Dimension in a "box-ception" sequence will ever remain floating "in Narnia". Set this to false if you want to make raiding the Dimensions from the outside easier if a box is not placed directly on actual terrain. "DimensionalBoxesCheckForPlayersInsideWhenPickingUp": true, If a player is inside of a Pocket Dimension and its box was just picked up, the player inside is now stuck, until the box gets re-deployed somewhere else. On the other hand... entire 30-man teams could be "smuggled" this way, all tucked quietly inside! Thus, by default, you cannot pick up pocket dimensions with players inside, and it's also not recommended to allow players to respawn inside, either, for the same reason. Set this to false if you really know what you're doing. "DimensionalBoxesCheckBuildingBlockOutsideWhenEnteringDimension": false, In vanilla Rust, if a box is unlocked, it can be opened, even if the player attempting it is not authorised on the TC. As such, this value is set to false, so that even if you're not authorised on the TC, you can still enter inside of a Dimensional Box. Set this value to true if you want that extra layer of security, in lieu of having a lock on the box that contains a Dimension. "DimensionalBoxesCheckTCAuthInsideWhenEnteringDimension": false, This setting, on the other hand, makes sure that an authorization on the TC is needed INSIDE of the pocket dimension itself (if there's one present at that point). For the same reason as above, it's set to false, but if you're feeling extra EXTRA paranoid, feel free to set it to false, and the only players that will be able to enter a Pocket Dimension were those originally authed on the TC before it as converted - and others bagged in later, but this requires the pocketdimensions.player.respawn permission, too. "DimensionalBoxesCheckTCAuthInsideWhenPickingUp": false, Similar to above, but related to picking up the Dimensional Box - of course, all the other checks for picking up are tested for, too (like building block outside). By default, this value is set to false, but if you want, you can toggle it to true, so that the only way to pick up a pocket dimension is to be authorised on its TC inside. "DimensionalPocketsAllowSolarAndWindmill": false, Allowing pretty much unlimited AND unchallenged electrical power inside of a Pocket Dimension can have several consequences for gameplay - and as such the default is false. Also, when the wires connection to the Solar/Wind generators on the roof are severed, the only way to restore them is with an intervention of an admin using "noclip". If you don't want your players to rely on fuel generators when inside of a Pocket Dimension, set this to true. "DimensionalPocketsAllowTestGenerators": true, Similar to the setting above, just dealing with Test Generators (either the static one, static invisible one, or deployable one). Normally those cannot be obtained by regular players (unless admins/plugins are involveds), and as such, this setting is true. If you have plugins/kits that make it possible for players to get them/spawn them, you should set it to false. "DimensionalPocketsTrapImmunityAfterTeleport": 1.5, When you enter an unknown Pocket Dimension, you never know if a shotgun trap or a turret are placed aiming right at the entry portal. Similarly, when you're inside of a Pocket Dimension, you don't know what's going on outside, so you can never be sure if somebody hasn't placed a trap aiming at the box containing the Dimension. Because of that, the default cooldown to be targeted by auto-traps right after a player enters/exits a pocket dimension is set to 1.5 seconds. Make it longer or shorter as you please, just not negative, and preferably no longer than 60 seconds. "DimensionalPocketsExteriorBlocksAllowNonDecayDamage": true, This effectively enables Collapsing an entire Pocket Dimension by attacking one of its external shell blocks (wall/doorway) from the inside - and as such, it's set to true. If you want to make the entire external shell impervious to damage (other than decay damage), set this to false. "DimensionalPocketsActualAltitudeMin": 3200.0, So here's the trick: in reality, the actual Pocket Dimension buildings exist at a randomly picked position on the map, but high up in the sky, and players are physically teleported to and from them - so it creates an illusion of being in a completely secluded place outside of "normal reality", where you can't even hear anything happening on the actual map. Similar to how Halloween Portals work. This setting defines the minimum random altitude at which Pocket Dimensions will physically reside for the duration of the wipe - by default, 3200 metres (3.2 kilometres, or roughly 2 miles). Adjust it if you have any other plugins that spawn things high up in the sky. IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED TO SET IT TO LOWER THAN 1000 - PLAYERS INSIDE MIGHT THEN HEAR THINGS HAPPENING ON THE ACTUAL MAP, LIKE C4, SUPPLY PLANES, HELI ETC. "DimensionalPocketsActualAltitudeMax": 3900.0, Similar to the setting above, this defines the maximum altitude. Both settings, together, effectively create a cuboid space high up in the sky, where Pocket Dimensions are expected to actually physically reside, at randomly picked locations. By default, this value is set to 3900.0, and there's a very good reason for that: AT EXACTLY 4000 METRES OF ALTITUDE, ALL PLAYERS WILL INSTANTLY DIE, INCLUDING ADMINS IN GOD MODE, AND THIS IS VANILLA RUST BEHAVIOUR. AS SUCH, IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO SET THIS VALUE TO HIGHER THAN DEFAULT. "DimensionaPocketsAllowVendingMachineBroadcast": false, While on the topic of maintaining an illusion - allowing players to effectively broadcast the location of their Pocket Dimension on the map would definitely break that illusion, so this value is false by default. Players who try to enable broadcasting in the Vending Machines deployed inside Pocket Dimensions will receive a warning instead, and the broadcast won't be enabled. Set this to true if you honestly couldn't care less about a visual detail like that. "DimensionalPocketsRespawningInsideRequiresDeployment": true, A safeguard against players trying to respawn inside bags/beds/towelrs in dimensions that are not currently deployed, to prevent the players from being effectively stuck inside (until they respawn somewhere else, at least, or until the box is re-deployed on the outside). "DimensionalPocketsTeleportingInsideRequiresDeployment": true, Similar to the setting above, but rather than dealing with respawning inside sleeping bags, this will prevent players from teleporting into a pocket dimension that is currently not deployed (works for any type of warp/teleport plugin). NOTE: Admins who are currently in noclip are allowed to teleport as they please, this is only checked for regular players. "DimensionalPocketsMaxInceptionDepth": 10, If you want to limit the amount of dimensions inside of dimensions inside of dimensions etc, this is the setting for you. If you change this value mid-wipe, only newly deployed boxes will be checked to see if they stay within the limit, and it won't affect already existing dimension trees. "DimensionalPocketsLocationMinTemperature": 15.0, When a new random location for a pocket dimension is checked, this setting will ensure that the biome-based temperature at 12PM (noon) will always be larger than this value. Decrease this value if you want a cooler climate. "DimensionalPocketsLocationMaxTemperature": 32.0, Similar to the setting above, this will put the upper limit on the biome-based temperature at 12PM (noon) when a new random location for a Pocket Dimension is considered. Increase this value if you don't mind a hotter climate. "EffectPlayerTeleportAppear": "assets/prefabs/missions/portal/proceduraldungeon/effects/appear.prefab", This is a purely cosmetic setting. When a player enters or exits a Pocket Dimension, it counts as a teleport. An audio-visual effect of your choosing will be played at the player's new location when that happens. By default, it's the same one used for the Halloween Dungeon. You can use most prefab effect on this list, just filter by "effect" in the "Search" box. "EffectPlayerTeleportDisappear": "assets/prefabs/missions/portal/proceduraldungeon/effects/disappear.prefab", The counterpart of the setting above - it just creates an effect at the old position of the player that's being teleported. And similarly, it's an effect from the Halloween Dungeon. Check out the prefab list I linked above if you want to use a different effect. You can use the Play FX plugin to test all the ones you can find in-game first, before you commit. "EffectsPlayerTeleportEnable": true, Effects can be loud and attract attention. Maybe you don't want. By default, the teleport effects are enabled, but if you set this setting's value to false, no special effects will be played while players are entering or exiting. "CheckEscapeBlockWhenEnteringDimensions": true, If you have No Escape installed, this will prevent players that are Escape Blocked from entering Pocket dimensions, like the name suggests. By default it's true. Feel free to change it to false if you believe that players raiding from the outside should still be able to enter inside. "CheckEscapeBlockWhenExitingDimensions": true, Again, if you don't have No Escape installed, ignore this setting and the next two after that. Similar to above, just when exiting the dimensions. Players will be informed that they cannot exit or enter dimensions for the reason of being Escape Blocked. Change the default value to false if you feel like the Escape Block should not matter for exiting. "CheckEscapeBlockWhenDeployingDimensions": true, No Escape specific setting number 3. You get it by now: if this setting is true (and it IS by default), Escape Blocked players won't be able to deploy any Pocket Dimension Items into their Box form that can be entered. Change the default "true" value to false if you consider this restriction to be too tight. "CheckEscapeBlockWhenPickingUpDimensions": true, And the last setting that's applicable to No Escape - it's the reverse of the one above. By default, players with an Escape Block imposed on them cannot pick up boxes with Pocket Dimensions inside. Change this to false if you beg to differ. "ForbiddenCommandsInsideDimensions": ["tp","warp","back","home","tpr","tpa","kit"], This blacklist contains the default chat and console commands that players without the admin permission will NOT be able run, while they themselves are within the Pocket Dimension layer altitude range. You can add or remove your own sets of commands (do not include the forward slash). "ForbiddenCommandsCheckingEnabled": true, If you set this to false, this will disable relying on the blacklist above, and any command will be permitted inside a Pocket Dimension to be executed by any player. "ConversionCostCurrencyUsed": "CustomItemAmount", By default, conversion from a normal base to a Pocket Dimension costs a certain physical Item that exists in Rust, and that setting is reflected by the value of "CustomItemAmount". If you instead prefer Server Rewards / Economics to be used to pay for conversion, set this value to "ServerRewards" or "Economics", respectively. You can even set this to "NoCost" - and the conversion will be free for the player (but the base will still need to be built correctly and maintained). "ConversionCostAmount": 500, 500 scrap to convert sounds like a moderate amount. 500 RP, or ¤500 however, do not - so you can adjust this amount to be higher or lower however you like,depending on your currency used. Only integers larger than 0 are accepted. "ConversionCostCustomItemShortname": "scrap", What else but "scrap" by default - the universal currency. Of course, if you picked Server Rewards or Economics instead, this setting won't matter in the slightest. Whatever valid item shortname from the approved list you pick, this is what players will be charged for conversion. Since not everything can be put in the TC, it will also check the player's inventory for that item. "ConversionCostCustomItemOverrideName": null, Again, this only applies to the "CustomItemAmount" option. If you want to use a completely custom item, for example, one registered by another plugin, that has a different icon/behaviour, those items often have a custom name. If this value is null (with no quotes) or empty (just the "" quotes), the Item's definition name translated to the client's language will be used. "ConversionCostCustomItemSkinID": 0, And finally: if you only want to accept certain skinned variants of an item - again, useful for plugins with custom items like Water Bases - set the default value of 0 to any valid item ID available on the Steam Workshop. This setting will also be ignored if your currency is not set to "CustomItemAmount". There's a few more settings, but these are all the most important ones that will shape your unique server experience. Translation support (oxide/lang/en/PocketDimensions.json) Almost every string the players see, including the text displaying in the chat and the GUI, can be edited. Just load the plugin and let it generate the file - after you edit it, reload the plugin. Hooks/API (for plugin developers) You can call these through Interface.CallHook() as well, if you don't want to add a [PluginReference] //get an array of BasePortal entities that are assigned to Dimensional Pockets // - or null if none are present var portalArray = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("GetDimensionalPortals") as BasePortal[]; //get an array of BuildingManager.Building instances that are assigned to Dimensional Pockets // - or null if none are present var pocketArray = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("GetDimensionalPockets") as BuildingManager.Building[]; //get an array of StorageContainer entities that are assigned to Dimensional Pockets // - or null if none are present var boxArray = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("GetDimensionalBoxes") as StorageContainer[]; //pass a BasePortal entity and get a boolean true if it's assigned to a Dimensional Pocket // - or false if it's not var isDimensionalPortal = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("CheckIsDimensionalBox", basePortal).Equals(true); //pass a BuildingManager.Building instance and get a boolean true if it's assigned to a Dimensional Pocket // - or false if it's not var isDimensionalPocket = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("CheckIsDimensionalPocket", building).Equals(true); //pass a StorageContainer entity and get a boolean true if it's assigned to a Dimensional Pocket //- or false if it's not var isDimensionalBox = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("CheckIsDimensionalBox", storageContainer).Equals(true); //pass a BuildingBlock entity and get a boolean true if it's assigned to a Dimensional Pocket SPECIFICALLY as a Shell Block // - or false if it's not var isDimensionalShellBlock = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("CheckIsDimensionalShellBlock", buildingBlock).Equals(true); //pass a DecayEntity entity and get a boolean true if inside a DimensionalPocket Building // - or false if it's not var doesBelongToDimensionalPocket = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("CheckBelongsToDimensionalPocket", decayEntity).Equals(true); //pass a global::Item instance and get a boolean true if it's assigned to a Dimensional Pocket // - or false if it's not. //You must also specify whether you're looking for "fresh", unopened dimensions in that item OR an already existing dimensions. //If you want to check both cases, you must do two separate checks, passing a different boolean (true when looking for fresh, //false when not) as the second (counting from 0th) argument. var isDimensionalItem = PocketDimensions?.CallHook("CheckIsDimensionalItem", item, lookingForFresh).Equals(true);