EntMessage

The problem

Every server has rules and features its players only find out about by breaking them. Place a turret in a safe zone, place a large box past the entity limit, place a research table when your server has a custom crafting system — the plugin that governs it usually says nothing until it says no.

What EntMessage does

/entmessage opens an editor. Pick an entity from a searchable item browser, write the message, save. From then on, any player who places that entity gets your message in chat.

Nothing else to it — which is the point. The message is set where you can see the entity list, not in a JSON file with prefab paths in it.

Features

• In-game editor with a searchable, paged item browser
• Any number of entity-to-message rules
• Multi-select, so one message can cover a group of entities
• Configurable chat prefix, message colour and Steam avatar icon
• Long messages split automatically at a character count you set
• Settings persist across restarts and reloads
• One permission for the whole editor
• Oxide and Carbon
• No dependencies

Commands

Everything else happens in the UI.

Permissions

• entmessage.admin — open and use the editor

Configuration

{
  "Chat Prefix": "<color=#e67e22>[Info]</color>",
  "Message Color": "#f5c542",
  "Steam Icon ID (Steam64, 0 = disabled)": 0,
  "Max chars per chat message (message splits if longer)": 200
}

The messages themselves are stored with your server data, not in this file — they are made in the UI.

Requirements

Oxide or Carbon. No dependencies.

Support

Free, and supported like everything else here — the private updates channel in our Discord comes with it.