Server Messages – DayZ

A server message is a message that is sent to the clients from the server at a given point in time.

Flags

On connect

• Indicates that the server message will be sent once after a player connects to the server.

Repeat

• Indicates that the server message will be sending to all players repeatedly.

Countdown

• Indicates that the server message will be sent to all players in a countdown manner.
• The message will be sent 90 minutes before the deadline is met, then 60 minutes, 45, 30, 20, 15, 10, 5, 2 and finally 1 minute before the deadline is met.

Shutdown

• Indicates that the server will shutdown after countdown reaches zero.
• If the Countdown flag is not set, this flag is ignored.

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Is is highly recommended to use this graceful shutdown method to avoid negative side effects on player characters and the server storage saving.

Properties

The maximum length of the message is 160 characters. User can place 3 different placeholders into the message's text:

• #name is replaced with the server's name
• #port is replaced with server's port
• #tmin is replaced with the number of minutes remaining in the countdown.
  • only working when used with a Countdown flag.

Every property related to time in the server message is in minutes.

Delay

• Applied when the server message has On connect flag set.
• This value indicates how many minutes it will take before the message is sent to player.
• Value of zero means that the message will be sent immediately after the player connects to server.

Repeat

• Applied when the server message has the Repeat flag set.
• This value controls the frequency of the message repetition.

Deadline

• Applied when the server message has the Countdown flag set.
• Indicates how long it takes the countdown before it reaches zero.

Example

Server messages can be added, updated or deleted in the messages.xml file (located in .\mpmissions\dayzOffline.chernarusplus\db\messages.xml, you may need to create it)

For automatic server termination set "deadline" and "shutdown" to enabled.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<messages>

	<!-- This is example message for automatic server termination -->
	<message>

		<!-- no delay -->
		<delay>0</delay>

		<!-- if the value is larger than 0, then flag Repeat is enabled -->
		<repeat>0</repeat>

		<!-- if the value is larger than 0, then flag Countdown is enabled,
			 countdown reaches zero in 10 hours --> 
		<deadline>600</deadline>

		<!-- disable On connect flag -->
		<onConnect>0</onConnect>

		<!-- enable Shutdown flag -->
		<shutdown>1</shutdown>

		<!-- message itself with placeholders -->
		<text>Hello, #name will shutdown in #tmin minutes.</text>

	</message>
</messages>