Discord is the place where most of the discussion happens, due to absence of a forum. Here you can contact administrators, ask mentors for help, or simply discuss your rounds. It is also a place where you can find links to ban appeals, admin applications and others, which could be really useful.
- Code: https://github.com/vlggms/fortune13
- SS13 Coderbus Discord: https://discord.gg/Vh8TJp9
- /tg/Station Wiki: https://tgstation13.org/wiki/Main_Page
There are a number of ways to download the source code. Some are described here, an alternative all-inclusive guide is also located at http://www.tgstation13.org/wiki/Downloading_the_source_code
[Recommended] Option 1: Follow this: http://www.tgstation13.org/wiki/Setting_up_git
Option 2: Download the source code as a zip by clicking the ZIP button in the code tab of https://github.com/vlggms/fortune13 (note: this will use a lot of bandwidth if you wish to update and is a lot of hassle if you want to make any changes at all, so it's not recommended.)
First-time installation should be fairly straightforward. First, you'll need BYOND installed. You can get it from https://www.byond.com/download.
Once you've done that, extract the game files to wherever you want to keep them. This is a sourcecode-only release, so the next step is to compile the server files. Open Build.bat by double-clicking it. This'll take a little while, and if everything's done right you'll get a message like this:
saving fortune13.dmb (DEBUG mode)
fortune13.dmb - 0 errors, 0 warnings
If you see any errors or warnings, something has gone wrong - possibly a corrupt download or the files extracted wrong. If problems persist, ask for assistance on the Discord.
Once that's done, open up the config folder. You'll want to edit config.txt to set the probabilities for different gamemodes in Secret and to set your server location so that all your players don't get disconnected at the end of each round. It's recommended you don't turn on the gamemodes with probability 0, except Extended, as they have various issues and aren't currently being tested, so they may have unknown and bizarre bugs. Extended is essentially no mode, and isn't in the Secret rotation by default as it's just not very fun.
You'll also want to edit config/admins.txt to remove the default admins and add your own. "Game Master" is the highest level of access, and probably the one you'll want to use for now. You can set up your own ranks and find out more in config/admin_ranks.txt
This codebase also depends on a native library called rust-g. A precompiled Windows DLL is included in this repository, but Linux users will need to build and install it themselves. Directions can be found at the rust-g repo.
Finally, to start the server, run Dream Daemon and enter the path to your compiled fortune13.dmb file. Make sure to set the port to the one you specified in the config.txt, and set the Security box to 'Safe'. Then press GO and the server should start up and be ready to join. It is also recommended that you set up the SQL backend (see below).
To update an existing installation, first back up your /config and /data folders as these store your server configuration, player preferences and banlist.
Then, extract the new files (preferably into a clean directory, but updating in place should work fine), copy your /config and /data folders back into the new install, overwriting when prompted except if we've specified otherwise, and recompile the game. Once you start the server up again, you should be running the new version.
The SQL backend requires a Mariadb server running 10.2 or later. Mysql is not supported but Mariadb is a drop in replacement for mysql. SQL is required for the library, stats tracking, admin notes, and job-only bans, among other features, mostly related to server administration. Your server details go in /config/dbconfig.txt, and the SQL schema is in /SQL/tgstation_schema.sql and /SQL/tgstation_schema_prefix.sql depending on if you want table prefixes. More detailed setup instructions are located here: https://www.tgstation13.org/wiki/Downloading_the_source_code#Setting_up_the_database
Web delivery of game resources makes it quicker for players to join and reduces some of the stress on the game server.
- Edit compile_options.dm to set the
PRELOAD_RSCdefine to0 - Add a url to config/external_rsc_urls pointing to a .zip file containing the .rsc.
- If you keep up to date with /tg/ you could reuse /tg/'s rsc cdn at http://tgstation13.download/byond/tgstation.zip. Otherwise you can use cdn services like CDN77 or cloudflare (requires adding a page rule to enable caching of the zip), or roll your own cdn using route 53 and vps providers.
- Regardless even offloading the rsc to a website without a CDN will be a massive improvement over the in game system for transferring files.
Please see CONTRIBUTING.md
All code after commit 333c566b88108de218d882840e61928a9b759d8f on 2014/31/12 at 4:38 PM PST is licensed under GNU AGPL v3.
All code before commit 333c566b88108de218d882840e61928a9b759d8f on 2014/31/12 at 4:38 PM PST is licensed under GNU GPL v3. (Including tools unless their readme specifies otherwise.)
See LICENSE and GPLv3.txt for more details.
The TGS DMAPI API is licensed as a subproject under the MIT license.
See the footer of code/__DEFINES/tgs.dm and code/modules/tgs/LICENSE for the MIT license.
All assets including icons and sound are under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA license unless otherwise indicated.