** PLEASE READ **
If you are using version 01107 or earlier of RAT, it is recommended that you completely start over with a clean database. The upgrade path MAY work for you, but as it has been almost a year of changes since the stable release version was updated, odds are, there are going to be issues.
Please read this post on how to completely (cleanly) uninstall RAT.
If you have EVER installed RAT before, you may start RAT after the update and nothing seems to happen. If this is happening, its an easy fix, please read the FAQ items at the bottom of this post for instructions on how to fix it.
Fixed
- Crash when spawning a horde and not entering a valid value for number of horde to spawn
- No logs were being generated if the logs folder didn't already exist. Logs folder is now created if it doesn't exist already.
- Fixed: Player data in player list is set to default values when player logs off the server
- Fixed/Changed: Many updates to the new RAT event system, most of them under the hood
- Fixed: On a completed backup, the backup start message was being used instead of the backup complete message
- Fixed: Added exception handling around Localization directory searching
- Fixed: NODATA displayed for admin data on the Permissions tab
- Fixed: .SENDEMAIL command now properly parses event variables
- Fixed: .SENDEMAIL now correctly parses its parameters
- Fixed: Issue where once the server was manually stopped, it would not restart automatically when expected to
- Fixed: RAT would crash with an error of too many open DB connections (Generally seen on larger player count servers)
- Fixed: Kick reason not displaying when manually kicking a player with a custom reason
- Fixed: Deleting a server restart entry, would delete all server restart entries
- Fixed: Kick reason not displaying correctly when a player failed the ping check
- Fixed: Improved the memory usage for DB calls, RAT should be more performant as well as less resource intensive
- Fixed: Event Command: SendEmail was not sending emails
- Fixed: If server messages were enabled, but none defined, RAT would throw an exception
- Fixed: Player chat events could sometimes fire when they shouldn't
- Fixed: Completly reworked how multiple server configurations work
- Fixed: Server password value would not clear once set
- Fixed: Landclaimofflinedurability not saving
- Fixed: Several other default values were not saving correctly
- Fixed: Due to the next item in the patch notes, the MOTD will now display at an appropriate time for the player to see it
- Fixed: VAC Bans should now properly kick/ban a player
- Fixed: Bans should now display correctly again since the A16 release
- Fixed: Error when saving server settings when loot abundance setting was above 127.
- Fixed: When you manually change the game time through RAT, the in game time is now instantly reflected in RAT instead of on the next interval
- Fixed: On RAT startup, a single telnet connection was attempted, even if Automatically Connect was not checked.
- Fixed: An exception could be thrown if the ping check failed and email settings were not set.
- Fixed: Hostbans should be working again. I plan on redoing this system eventually, but what is there, should work correctly again.
- Fixed: Creating a new event, would cause subsequent event edits to be considered new events, duplicating events.
- Fixed: Server messages should be working again
- Fixed: Player Spawn Join, Player Spawn Died and Player Spawn Teleport events now fire correctly (Welcome messages events should work now, etc). Looks like this changed in an alpha somewhere.
- Fixed: Some default RAT values were left as my debug values, updated the build script to set these values correctly.
- Fixed: Current player counts not being displayed in the status bar
- Fixed: The player list would not update in some situations
- Fixed: Potential issue with teleport using wrong coords
- Fixed: Rat log window should now correctly only display RAT log info, instead of console commands bleeding over
- Fixed: Text on player window right click changed from "Kill all Players" to "Kill all Zombies". Must have been wishful thinking on my part.
- Fixed: Exception when saving settings that some people were experiencing
- Fixed: Connection issues with RAT connecting to servers with no passwords.
- Fixed: Updated player window toolbar option "Kill All Players" to correctly state "Kill All Zombies"
- Fixed: Events like "Player Joined Server" not appearing in the chat window. If you're upgrading RAT, you'll need to manually update your events to include whatever you want.
Changed- Redesigned the grab bag editor, thanks to GuppyCur for the design ideas
- New player Event, now fires 60 seconds after player joins the server to help prevent false positives for new player detection.
- Minutes between grab bags can now be 0, really only used for testing.
- Minimum minutes between teleports changed from 1 to 0, mostly used for testing.
- Changed: Event Player Public Chat, now works with CONTAINS, STARTSWITH and ENDSWITH, see documentation for more information. ** This means you will need to update your commands to the new format on the parameter section.** [DOC] - Event Types
- Changed: Date format on the log files is now in the format: output_log_yyyy-MM-dd_HHmmss.txt
- Changed: Increased internal telnet buffer. (should help those with a large amount of players online at one time)
- Changed: Backups of the RAT upgrade.dat file are no longer created. If you need to rerun the upgrade process, run the RAT installer again and select the "repair" option, the file will be rewritten.
- Changed: EnemySpawnMode is not a boolean an instead of a numeric value (A16 change)
- Changed: Removed EnemySenseMemory (A16 change)
- Changed: When creating a new server, the Enable Local Server box is unchecked by default. Check it to have RAT automatically start up your server
- Changed: When creating a new server, the telnet connection is unchecked by default. Check it to automatically connect to your server
- Changed: When creating a new server, the remote tab is now auto selected
- Changed: When changing servers, if you are connected via Telnet or IRC, you will be prompted to disconnect before changing servers is allowed
- Changed: Updated the spawn entity list
- Changed: Updated item spawn list
- Changed: Did some work on the RAT upgrade code, hopefully it is more reliable now
- Changed: Webmap now has two required fields to display it, located on the MISC tab. Webmost Host and Webmap port. Typically host is "localhost" and port will be your control panel port + 2.
You will need to set yourself as admin. Right click your name in the player list, Admins -> Add
Then in the console type the following commands:
webpermission add web.map 500
webpermission add webapi.getstats 500
Now, when you click the webmap, you should be able to log in with your steam account, click refresh and you should see the webmap.
For more information on webmap / webmap permissions, please see Alloc's documentation: Integrated Webserver – 7 Days to Die - Linux Server Management- CHANGED: *** StompyNZ's mod is now REQUIRED for RAT to work. Forum Post: [MOD] Bad Company Manager (ApiMod for Servers) This mod does not change your game or put your server into the modded category. Please download and install: Release A16.2 B7 Build #1 · 7days2mod/BadCompanySM · GitHub
This means internally the majority of the parsing has been rewritten. This won't mean much to you, other than it allows me to code faster and cleaner. So in the long run, everyone wins.- Changed: Rewrote parser to accomodate future mod support and cleanup
- Fixed: Spawn Scouts near a player should work again
- Fixed: Sometimes a player would use the grabbag option, and not get a response. This is due to no items matching the percentage chance. Now the default bag will be given if this happens.
Always make sure that the default bag has at least one item in it with a 100% chance!- Changed: Updated the max for both min/max GB Quantity values to 6000
- Changed: Item spawn list is now auto alpha sorted when opened.
- Changed: Teleport events should be working now (I hope). Let me know if there are still any issues please! I didn't find a specific issue, but made some changes in the hopes it would clear it up.
- Changed: Improved the way random numbers were being generated. You should hopefully see more random in your random.
- Changed: Requires v2.0 of Stompy's BCM mod, hopefully there won't be too many more mandatory updates, however... you're on experimental...
** NOTE ** Delete the old BCM folder and install a completely fresh copy from the above link.
If you don't, things will probably not work right.- Changed: Visual changes to the Health Check tab to hopefully make the options more clear
- Changed: Cleared up some text on the Player list right click menu
- Changed: Removed my person default values from the backup paths
- Changed: The gametime in the bottom left corner is now blue and if you single click it, you can set the gametime.
Added
Notes
- New event system, allows admins to perform system commands based on events. (very experimental!)
- Ability to disable countdown timer output on server restart for both minutes and final countdown
- New custom command "NextBloodmoon", returns the days until the next blood moon (use parameters field for message if current day is bloodmoon day)
- Max player Count to Server Restart Schedules. Player count must be below this number to restart the server. 0 is only restart if no players are online.
- You can prefix content within an event script with a # to comment that line
- Grab bag item quantity, name and quality are now displayed in private chat when a bag is rolled by the player
- Supress "gettime" from the console window to help minimize console spam, on by default. Change it in the RAT Settings -> Console/Chat tab
- Localization options.
If you wish to create a template in another language, Click Tools -> Export Localization Template to get an English template of what you can edit.
When done, copy your new file to the /localization folder.
To change the localization template for RAT to use, File -> Settings and select the template you wish to use
Please note that not everything can currently be localized, but there are almost 600 items that can be. The rest will be a slower process as they are hardcoded for a reason.
If you create a template for a language, please send it to me so I can include it in the RAT installation. =)- All of the default RAT custom event commands have been converted to the new event system. Please see General for documentation.
- Event: TEXT MATCH. Will match any text that comes through the console. So you can trap whatever you want, and do whatever you want when you trap it. See documetation for more information.
- Added: Option to perform "saveworld" command on a timer (Misc Tab)
- Added: Player level restrictions are now possible for the Player Public Chat event, see Documentation: [DOC] - Event Types
- Added: RAT setting to output player data to a file (JSON or XML format), writes to rat install folder/playerdata_output.<format> file.
- Added: New tab (Security 2), you can now kick/ban players that have VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) bans.
- Added: A debug option to replay log files, this will help me find issues when I get server logs from those having a problem. Internal command only.
- Added: Delete All Teleport Destinations menu option (Tools -> Delete Teleport Destinations), useful for when you wipe your server/start over. (more utils for this coming in the future)
- Added: Dead is Dead game mode. *NOTE* This only works if you're running RAT on the same machine as your 7D2D server.
Description: If you die, your character is deleted and you start over from scratch, with one exception: Currently player land claim blocks are not removed, this is due to the process being internally (7D2D server) complicated. I'm trying to figure out a good way to make this happen.
Settings are on the Local -> Game Settings 1 tab
Dead is Dead Mode, this means that this mode is enabled server wide!
DiD Kick Message, the message displayed to the player after they die and are kicked from the server
*NOTE* When DiD mode is enabled (global or player specific), they will be kicked from the server after they die. This is so that the player file can be moved into the folder "did_backup" and when the player logs in, they start with a completely new character file. If for some reason you want to restore the player, you can manually copy the files from the backup location.
If you would like players to be able to enable/disable this mode for their own character, use the below two event commands.
Two new Event Custom Commands: DIDENABLED, DIDDISABLED
Examples are in the Events System- Added: Admin Teleport Destinations. Teleport tab, add/remove/edit teleport destinations, name them whatever you want. Right click a player, select "Teleport Destinations", you will get a dropdown of all admin destinations
- Added: If a server restart was scheduled, but not performed due to players being online and the restart max player count set to zero (0 means don't restart if players are online), the next time there are no players are online, the server will restart.
- Added: Support for bi-directional game chat <-> IRC chat
**NOTE** If upgrading RAT, edit your Public Player Chat event and remove the "none" parameter for this to work- Added: Server Messages can now be ordered
- Added: DiD mode players are now listed in the player list with a red background
- Added: "Use Default Location" for save games. This will automatically use the save game location based on your configuration. Defaults to true *RECOMMENDED*
- Added: Checkbox on player list to pause player list updating
- Added: Player list refresh interval (in minutes), defaults to 1 minute (as current), located on the MISC tab
- Added: COOLDOWN event command for player chat commands (see event !lcheck for example)
- Added: You can now select the default server on RAT startup (button under the list of servers)
- Added: 3 New event types: Player Spawn Join, Player Spawn Died, Player Spawn Teleport
With the above new change, there is now a new default event for RAT called "Player Joined Server" that will display the MOTD.
This means that the old MOTD system will be going away as the new event will display at the proper time for a player to see it
Edit this new event however you'd like.
*** Please upgrade to this method of displaying the MOTD. The old method will be removed in the next release! ***- Added: Early support for StompyNZ's mod Bad Company Manager: Get it at: Release A16.2 B7 Build #1 · 7days2mod/BadCompanySM · GitHub
- Added: The entity list for spawning entities can now be updated by clicking "Tools -> Import Entities" at any time (such as new 7D2D release) (Requires StompyNZ's mod to be installed)
- Added: The Buffs/Debuffs list for applying Buffs/Debuffs can now be updated by clicking "Tools -> Import Buffs/Debuffs" at any time (such as new 7D2D release) (Requires StompyNZ's mod to be installed)
- Added: {bloodmoon_days} event token is now available at all times, meaning you can use it on commands other than !bloodmoon
- Added: The Item spawner window now has a "Search" box to search items. Just start typing in the box and any matching items will be displayed in the list.
- Added: Show Variables button on the lower right of th event editor. This will open a window and display all of the variables you can use in your scripts.
- Added: Event Editor: Events are now sorted by type and displayed with the event type in a blue header in the list to make identifying event types/firing order easier.
- Added: Static teleport destinations now work as variables in Event Script. Example:
If you have a teleport destination already created with the name "jail", in event script, you could do something like: teleportplayer {{player_name}} {tele_jail}
and the player will be teleported to that named locations coordinates. That way, if you change the location later (after a server wipe, etc), you just reset your coords and your events will work as they used to.- Added: Server messages can now contain the token {bloodmoon_days} to display the number of days until a bloodmoon.
- Added: New icon on the toolbar for network information. Currently contains localIP, ExternalIP and local host name. Please let me know if you have ideas for more information in this window.
- Added: Usage statistics tracking. This is so I can see how much RAT is used and what features. You can disable it in File -> Settings, but.. please leave it on. =) Only identifiable information collected is your IP.
- Added: you can now import the entity classes to auto update the dropdown for spawning entities
- Added: New Item list when adding grab bag items, searchable and sortable. I hope this makes adding items to grab bags much easier!
- Added: Options for guarenteed items in grab bags. Meaning, if you set the guarenteed items to 2, the player is guarenteed two items from whatever bag is chosen. What items and quality those are, still fall in the settings you've made for those items. But the player will get 2 items (in this example). Leaving the guarenteed items at 0, means the system will work like previously, and the "default" bag is given to a player that did not recieve any items.
- Added: There is now a check for the backup folder to exist before attempting a backup. Errors are logged in Console -> RATLog
- Added: Input history buffers to Console, 7Days Chat, IRC Chat and Discord Chat (buffer is set to 50)
- Added: Script commands can now access user chat text. Use {0} for all args (space delimited), and {1}-{..n}
Examples:
User Input: !testing 1 2 3
Script Example: You said {0}
Returns: You Said 1 2 3
User Input: !testing 1 2 3
Script Example: Countdown {3} {2} {1}
Returns: Countdown 3 2 1- Added: Discord support! There's a lot to this one, please see this thread for setup instructions. Setup in RAT is the last icon on the main toolbar, instructions here.
- Added: You can create RAT events that will respond to Discord chat events. (Thanks to GuppyCur for the idea of reusing the existing RAT event system!)
- Added: .DSAY event command to send public chat to Discord
- Added: New Conditional: CHECKDISCORDROLE, supports >, >=, =
Example: CHECKDISCORDROLE:>=Moderator
Example Event to allow those in discord to chat with those in the game
This event will only work for those that have moderator or higher access in Discord
Type: Player Public Chat
Conditionals: STARTSWITH:!asay||CHECKDISCORDROLE:>=Moderator
Script: say "[{player_name}]: {0}"
Usage: !asay This is a test, you should see this in the game chat!
- Added: Rat News link to the Help menu dropdown. This will display the most recent RAT changelog for Experimental/Stable releases. It is really ugly, if you'd like to make it look better, please send me an example using CSS so I can use that as a template. =)
- Added: New Event Command: CHATW
Example Script: .CHATW:This writes to the local RAT Chat window, but only to there, no one else will see this.
This will allow you to write events there such as a player joined the server, died, etc... or not, as you please and whatever you want to say. Or if something happens you want to log in general, a player used a specific command, etc.
As always, please backup your database file before upgrading, it is located at %appdata%\Nomadsoft\7d2dusa.sdf
FAQ:
Q: My 7D2D server crashes as soon as it starts up.
A: If you are running A16 of 7D2D, please make sure you are using the latest RAT Experimental version as it is A16 compatible and the current stable version of RAT is not.
Q: RAT crashes as soon as it starts up
A: If upgrading from RAT version < 1118, you'll need to perform these one time steps. After that, RAT will start normally from then on.
