Command Deck

84 safe RCON and console commands that will not crash your server

Command Deck gives your ARK staff 84 RCON and console commands that find players by name and park themselves after a game update instead of crashing it.

Command Deck is for the owner who has been burned by an admin command taking the whole server down. Extra command plugins reach into the game by name, and when a patch renames or removes what they reach for, the server dies with no stack and no warning. I check first. Every game function I use is confirmed present before I call it, so a patch costs you one command instead of your server. On top of that you get player targeting by name instead of long ids, the whole item and creature table built in, a confirm code before anything big, a full audit trail, and four Discord channels.

Supported Features

• A game update cannot crash you: I read the offsets file the loader itself built and check every game function before I touch it, so one that has moved parks one command and nothing else.
• Name a player the way you would say it: Type the survivor name, the platform name, the EOS id, the player id, or just part of a name, and I work out who you mean.
• The player id is always right there: Most admin commands want the in game player id, so I put it beside every name in every list and give you one line to paste.
• Finds people who logged off: I keep a name book of everyone I have seen, so you can look somebody up a fortnight after they last played.
• Items and creatures by name: I ship the whole table. Type part of a name and I hand back the GFI code, the item id and a spawn line ready to paste.
• It asks before it does something big: Anything touching more than one thing gives you a code first, and the code is tied to the exact number it matched.
• Every change leaves a receipt: Who ran it, who asked for it, what it landed on and whether it worked, in a database you read back with one command.
• Four Discord channels, not one: Everyday changes, alerts, look ups and health each get their own webhook, so a tame feed never buries a tribe wipe.
• Answers a bot as easily as a person: Add --json to anything and you get one line a bot can read, carrying the same words a person would have seen.
• It never floods your reply: Long answers page instead of cutting off, and I always say how many rows I left out.
• An in game window for your staff: Who is on, with player ids, and how the plugin is doing, without leaving the game.
• Your language, your words: Pick the language in the config and I speak it in game and in the console, and you can pass your own file to another owner.

Console & RCON Commands

Command	What It Does	Where
Deck.Reload	Reads my config, my language file and my aliases again, without a restart.	Both
Deck.Audit	Shows what your staff have been doing, newest first.	Both
Deck.Build.Count	How many structures are on the map, or just one tribe's.	Both
Deck.Build.Kinds	Every kind of structure on the map and how many of each.	Both
Deck.Build.List	Lists structures with their id and where they stand.	Both
Deck.Build.Near	Whose structures are near a player, and how close the nearest piece is.	Both
Deck.Build.Top	Which tribes have built the most, biggest first.	Both
Deck.Dino.Count	How many creatures are on the map, wild and owned.	Both
Deck.Dino.GiveXP	Gives a creature experience.	Both
Deck.Dino.Highest	The highest level creatures on the map, best first.	Both
Deck.Dino.Info	Everything I know about one creature, by its id or its name.	Both
Deck.Dino.Kill	Removes one creature from the map. Asks for a code first.	Both
Deck.Dino.Levels	How creature levels are spread across the map.	Both
Deck.Dino.List	Owned creatures with their level, their id and where they are.	Both
Deck.Dino.Lookup	Finds a creature by name and hands you its entity id and name tag.	Both
Deck.Dino.Move	Moves a creature to raw map coordinates.	Both
Deck.Dino.Near	Which creatures are near a player, nearest first.	Both
Deck.Dino.OfPlayer	Every creature one player tamed themselves.	Both
Deck.Dino.SetColour	Paints one colour region of a creature.	Both
Deck.Dino.SetImprint	Sets how imprinted a creature is, from 0 to 1.	Both
Deck.Dino.Spawn	Puts a new creature next to a player.	Both
Deck.Dino.Species	Every kind of creature on the map and how many of each.	Both
Deck.Dino.Tamed	Lists every owned creature on the map.	Both
Deck.Dino.Top	Which tribes own the most creatures.	Both
Deck.Dino.Where	Where one creature is standing.	Both
Deck.Dino.Wild	Lists the wild creatures on the map.	Both
Deck.Dino.WreckUnclaimed	Removes creatures nobody has claimed. Asks for a code first.	Both
Deck.Find	Hunts for a command by any word in its name or what it does.	Both
Deck.Grammar	Dumps my whole command table. Meant for a bot to read with --json.	Both
Deck.Help	Lists what I can do, or explains one command in full.	Both
Deck.Item.Find	Finds an item by name and hands you the GFI code ready to paste.	Both
Deck.Msg.Broadcast	Says something to everyone on the server.	Both
Deck.Msg.Notify	Puts a message on everyone's screen.	Both
Deck.Player.Bring	Moves one player to where another one is standing.	Both
Deck.Player.Count	How many players are online.	Both
Deck.Player.Find	Finds a player from a partial name and tells you their player id.	Both
Deck.Player.GiveArmour	Gives a player a full armour set of one tier.	Both
Deck.Player.GiveHexagons	Gives a player hexagons.	Both
Deck.Player.GiveItem	Gives a player an item by name or by its id.	Both
Deck.Player.GiveXP	Gives a player experience.	Both
Deck.Player.Ids	Just the ids for one player, on one line, ready to paste into a command.	Both
Deck.Player.Info	Everything I know about one player, all their ids in one place.	Both
Deck.Player.Kick	Drops a player from the server with a reason they can read.	Both
Deck.Player.Kill	Kills a player where they stand. Asks for a code first.	Both
Deck.Player.Known	Everyone I have ever seen, newest first. Works for people who are logged off.	Both
Deck.Player.List	Everyone online, with their player id next to their name.	Both
Deck.Player.Message	Sends a private line to one player or a whole group.	Both
Deck.Player.Move	Moves a player to raw map coordinates.	Both
Deck.Player.Near	Who else is standing near a player, nearest first.	Both
Deck.Player.Notify	Puts a message on a player's screen, not just in chat.	Both
Deck.Player.Pos	Where a player is standing right now, in map coords and raw.	Both
Deck.Player.Seen	When a player was last on.	Both
Deck.Player.UnlockBoss	Marks a boss as beaten for a player.	Both
Deck.Player.UnlockEngram	Unlocks one engram for a player.	Both
Deck.Script.Run	Sends a raw command straight to the game. Off unless you turn it on.	Both
Deck.Server.Frames	Frames a second, and whether that is a healthy number.	Both
Deck.Server.Health	Frames, players, memory and uptime in one answer.	Both
Deck.Server.Map	Which map and server this is.	Both
Deck.Server.Plugins	My version, and whether Permissions is answering.	Both
Deck.Server.Time	The real clock and the in game clock.	Both
Deck.Server.Uptime	How long the server has been up.	Both
Deck.Soundings	Lists every command I parked and the game symbol that went missing.	Both
Deck.Status	How I am doing: commands ready, commands parked, and what I have run.	Both
Deck.TestDiscord	Sends a test post to every Discord channel you have set up.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Find	Hunts for a tribe by part of its name.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Info	Everything I know about one tribe, with the owner and every member id.	Both
Deck.Tribe.List	Every tribe that has someone online right now.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Log	The tribe log, newest first. Add --filter to search it.	Both
Deck.Tribe.MakeAdmin	Makes a player an admin of their own tribe.	Both
Deck.Tribe.MakeOwner	Makes a player the owner of their own tribe.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Members	Every member of a tribe with their player id.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Message	Sends a line to every member of a tribe who is online.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Of	Which tribe a player belongs to.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Online	Which members of a tribe are on right now.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Rename	Renames a tribe. Needs somebody online with admin turned on.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Wreck.All	Wrecks every creature and structure a tribe owns. Asks for a code first.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Wreck.Builds	Wrecks every structure a tribe owns. Asks for a code first.	Both
Deck.Tribe.Wreck.Dinos	Wrecks every creature a tribe owns. Asks for a code first.	Both
Deck.Version	My version and when I was built.	Both
Deck.World.Count	Starts a fresh count of the creatures or the structures.	Both
Deck.World.Info	The map, who is on it, and my latest counts.	Both
Deck.World.Save	Asks the server to save the world now.	Both
Deck.World.SetTime	Sets the world clock.	Both
Deck.World.WipeWild	Clears every wild creature so the map respawns fresh.	Both

Player Commands

This plugin runs on its own. Players do not need any commands. Everything sits on the server console and on RCON, where your staff work.

Permissions

Command Deck uses the free Permissions plugin. Your staff need a node to run a command in game. The server console and RCON always work, because whoever holds the RCON password already has full admin. Without the Permissions plugin the in game path is closed to everyone, which is on purpose.

Node	What It Unlocks
CommandDeck.All	Every command I have. The master key.
CommandDeck.Panel	The in game window, on its own.
CommandDeck.Risk.Read	Everything that only looks at things.
CommandDeck.Risk.Write	Everything that changes something.
CommandDeck.Risk.Destroy	Everything that wrecks something.
CommandDeck.Player.*	All the player commands. Every group has a wildcard like this.
CommandDeck.Player.Info	Look up a player, their ids and who is on.
CommandDeck.Player.Pos	See where a player is and who is near them.
CommandDeck.Player.Message	Send a line or a screen popup to a player.
CommandDeck.Player.Kick	Drop a player from the server.
CommandDeck.Player.Move	Move a player.
CommandDeck.Player.Give	Give a player items, experience, hexagons, armour or an engram.
CommandDeck.Player.Wreck	Kill a player.
CommandDeck.Tribe.Info	Look up a tribe, its members and who is on.
CommandDeck.Tribe.Log	Read a tribe log.
CommandDeck.Tribe.Message	Send a line to a whole tribe.
CommandDeck.Tribe.Rename	Rename a tribe.
CommandDeck.Tribe.Rank	Make somebody a tribe admin or owner.
CommandDeck.Tribe.Wreck	Wreck a tribe's creatures, structures, or the lot.
CommandDeck.Dino.Info	Count and look up creatures.
CommandDeck.Dino.Give	Give a creature experience.
CommandDeck.Dino.Set	Change a creature's imprint, colour or position.
CommandDeck.Dino.Spawn	Spawn a creature.
CommandDeck.Dino.Wreck	Remove creatures.
CommandDeck.Build.Info	Count and look up structures.
CommandDeck.World.Info	See the map and start a fresh count.
CommandDeck.World.Save	Save the world.
CommandDeck.World.Set	Set the world clock.
CommandDeck.World.Wreck	Clear the wild creatures.
CommandDeck.Server.Info	See how the server is doing.
CommandDeck.Message.Broadcast	Talk to the whole server.
CommandDeck.Item.Info	Look items up by name.
CommandDeck.Script.Run	Send a raw command to the game. Give this to nobody you would not trust with the console.
CommandDeck.Deck.Help	Read my help and my command table.
CommandDeck.Deck.Status	See how I am doing and what I parked.
CommandDeck.Deck.Audit	Read back what your staff have done.
CommandDeck.Deck.Reload	Reload my config.

Config

To see every configuration option, visit our docs. To edit your config files the easy way, open our configuration editor.

Requirements

• AsaApi v2.01 or newer
• A Windows ARK Survival Ascended server
• A licence key from NordBots.cc
• Permissions plugin, optional. Without it your console and RCON still work, only the in game path is closed.
• MySQL, optional. SQLite is the default and needs no setup at all.
• Discord, optional. Leave the webhooks empty and I post nothing.
• The free NordBots UI mod, optional, for the in game window.

Installation

1. Unzip the CommandDeck folder into ArkApi/Plugins/ so the folder name matches the DLL.
2. Open config.json and put your key under License then Key.
3. Open discord.json and paste your webhooks if you want Discord. Leave them empty if you do not.
4. Restart the server.
5. Watch ArkApi.log for the loaded line, then run Deck.Status and check every command says ready.

Support & Help

Need a hand or hit a snag? Join the Discord and I will help you get it running: https://discord.gg/8GGaEzWk9p

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Command Deck do?

Command Deck gives your staff 84 extra RCON and console commands for looking up players, tribes, creatures, structures and items, and for changing things when they need to. Every command explains itself if you send it with no arguments, so there is no command list to lose.

Will a game update break it and crash my server?

That is the whole reason Command Deck exists. Before calling anything in the game I read the offsets file the loader already built and check the function is really there. If a game update moved it, I park that one command and name it, and the rest keeps working. Run Deck.Soundings after a patch and I will tell you exactly what moved.

How do I install it?

Unzip the Command Deck folder into ArkApi/Plugins/ so the folder name matches the DLL, put your key in config.json, then restart the server. Watch ArkApi.log for the loaded line and run Deck.Status to see that every command is ready.

Do I need Permissions or a database?

Command Deck uses the free Permissions plugin to let your staff run commands in game, and without it the console and RCON still work as normal. The database is SQLite by default and needs no setup at all. Point it at MySQL when you want every map in a cluster to share one name book.

What happens if my licence runs out?

You keep every command that looks at things. Command Deck only stops the ones that change something, so your staff can still find a player id, read a tribe log and count the map while you sort it out.

My panel shows nothing when I run a command. Is it broken?

No. Some game panels do not print what RCON sends back, so the command runs and answers and the panel shows nothing. Set EchoAnswersToLog to true under General in config.json and Command Deck writes every answer into ArkApi.log where you can read it.

Was any AI content used in the making of this?

The source code itself was fully created by myself. I do use ChatGPT occasionally to generate product images, and I do use ChatGPT to generate the website descriptions. I do this because I don't speak native English perfectly. I am natively from Sweden, so I use GPT to help translate and write product descriptions. I also will sometimes use GPT to write better English logs. Majority of my Free plugins are open source, so you can review the code yourself and freely fork and edit it to your liking.