Settings

ReSkateServer.json, beside the server, holds its settings in sections:

{
    "server": {"name": "My server", "max_players": 32},
    "players": {"afk_kick_minutes": 15},
    "maps": {"map": "Isle of Grom", "rotation_minutes": 30}
}

The first run writes the file with every default. Most settings also have a command, and every change made from the window or by an admin is saved back to the file.

Do not edit ReSkateServer.json while the server runs: it writes the file back whenever a setting changes, over your edits. Stop it, edit, and start it again, or change settings with commands.

A file from an older version, with every setting at the top level, is read as it is and written back in sections.

server

The server itself: its name, its password and its ports.

Setting	Default	What it does
`name`	`"ReSkate server"`	Shown in the browser: 1 to 64 letters, numbers, spaces and `- _ / [ ] ( )`.
`password`	`""`	Empty lets anyone in; otherwise players type it to join.
`welcome_message`	`""`	A chat line sent to each player as they join.
`chat_color`	`"#8E5CFF"`	The colour of the server’s own lines in chat: its Server badge and name.
`chat_text_color`	`"#D9C8FF"`	The colour of their text. Pick one that reads on a dark background.
`listed`	`true`	`false` hides the server from the browser; players then need its code.
`max_players`	`16`	1 to 249.
`port`, `query_port`	`27015`, `27016`	Steam game server ports, UDP.
`steam_token`	`""`	A Steam game server login token, to keep the same Steam ID and join code: see how players reach it.
`auto_update`	`true`	Install new ReSkate releases when nobody is on.
`autostart`	`false`	Windows: the server window starts the server as it opens, without waiting for Start. The console server always starts at once.
`activity_log`	`true`	Log what players do: throwdown drops, joins, turns and results, objects placed or removed, how long players take to load.

access

Who always has a place. Who runs the server is in data/roles.json: see roles.

Setting	Default	What it does
`reserved_players_slots`	`[]`	SteamID64s of players who can join when the server is full, such as `["76561198000000000"]`. Each of them, and each player whose role has `reserved_slot`, adds one slot beyond `max_players` that only they use. With 32 players, 2 admins and 2 listed, anyone can join until 32 are on, and those four up to 36. Nothing is held back from everyone else.
`use_global_bans`	`true`	Turn away players the ReSkate team has banned from multiplayer. The list is read from `api.reskate.dev` at startup and every ten minutes. The server’s own bans apply either way.

maps

What is skated. Maps and parks explains each.

Setting	Default	What it does
`map`	`"San Vansterdam"`	The map everyone skates, named as the game’s load command names it: `"San Vansterdam"`, `"Isle of Grom"`, `"Super Ultra Mega Resort"`, `"Stadium 1"`, or a custom map.
`pool`	`[]`	The maps players may vote for and the rotation goes through, in order. Empty allows every map the server knows. Admins can still change to any map.
`rotation_minutes`	`0`	Minutes on each map before the next in `pool`. 0 is off.
`rotation_vote`	`false`	When a map’s time is up, players vote for the next.
`rotation_vote_seconds`	`30`	How long that vote runs, 10 to 120.
`rotation_extend_minutes`	`15`	What Stay here adds to the map’s time, 1 to 240, or 0 to leave that answer out.
`rotation_announce`	`true`	Tell players on a card at 10, 5 and 1 minutes left.
`latest_versions`	`false`	Keep the server’s custom maps at Thunderstore’s newest version.
`latest_check_minutes`	`60`	How often Thunderstore is asked, 5 to 1440.
`parks`		The layout for each park lot, such as `"skatepark_01"`, or `"empty"`.
`world_layer_sync`	`false`	Force the `layers` below on every player.
`layers`		World layer key to `"on"` or `"off"`.
`park_mods`	`[]`	Park mods the server can spawn: see park mods.
`park_limits`	`{"parks": 3, "objects": 512}`	How much may be spawned at once: 1 to 16 parks, 1 to 1024 objects in all.

players

What players may do. Admins, and roles with the matching permission, can always do what this turns off.

Setting	Default	What it does
`allow_noclip`	`true`	Noclip, and teleporting.
`allow_no_bail`	`true`	No Bail.
`allow_boosts`	`true`	The forward and up boosts.
`allow_parties`	`true`	Parties: inviting each other from the Social menu, a player card, the ReSkate menu or chat (`/party invite <player>`). Party members join each other’s co-op challenges, see each other on the map and talk with `/p <message>`.
`party_size`	`8`	Most players in a party, 2 to 8.
`afk_kick_minutes`	`0`	Remove a player away this long, 1 to 1440 (0: never). See away players.
`kick_minutes`	`0`	How long a player kicked by an admin is kept out, 1 to 1440 (0: until the server restarts).
`word_warnings`	`3`	Warnings for blocked chat words before a kick, 1 to 10. 0 warns and kicks nobody. See chat words.
`use_global_word_filter`	`true`	Use the ReSkate team’s chat word lists.
`allow_voice_chat`	`true`	Voice chat.
`voice_range`	`300`	How far proximity voice reaches, 50 to 1000 m.
`object_placement`	`"everyone"`	Who can build: `everyone`, `admins` (the roles with `unlimited_objects`) or `nobody`.
`object_limit`	`100`	Objects each player may have placed, 1 to 1024, or 0 for no limit. A player at the limit deletes one to place another.
`allow_object_scaling`	`true`	Let players place objects bigger or smaller. `false` shares every object at its own size and turns the size controls off.
`sync_effects`	`true`	Let players see each other’s sparks and dust, and the trails and fire of costumes and boards. `false` saves a little traffic on a busy server.
`announce_throwdowns`	`true`	Tell everyone in chat when a throwdown drop is placed.
`throwdown_locks`	`[]`	Tools locked for a throwdown’s players while it runs: any of `"noclip"`, `"nobail"`, `"boosts"`, `"tuning"`. See locks.

A player who places more than twice the object limit plus 100 in a minute (a modified game animating objects by spawning them again) has their objects deleted for everyone, and nothing they place is shared for a minute.

anti_cheat

What the server checks, and what it does. See anti-cheat.

Setting	Default	What it does
`speed_hack`	`"warn"`	Games running faster than normal: `off`, `warn` or `kick`.
`pinned_board`	`"warn"`	A skateboard kept on another player as they move: `off`, `warn` or `kick`.
`modified_scoring`	`"warn"`	Mods that change scoring or the skater’s physics: `off`, `warn` or `kick`.
`allowed_scoring_mods`	`[]`	Scoring fingerprints accepted like the game’s own (16 hex digits each), for a server that runs on a scoring mod everyone installs.
`enforce_tuning`	`true`	Everyone skates with the game’s own physics tuning, not copies they edited.
`bone_scale_limit`	`2`	How far a mod may resize part of a skater for others, 1 to 8; 0 is no limit.
`bone_reach_limit`	`1`	How far, in metres, a bone may be from the one it hangs from for others, 0.5 to 20; 0 is no limit.

network

How players connect and how much they are sent. The defaults suit most servers.

Setting	Default	What it does
`use_steam_relay`	`true`	`true`: players connect through Steam’s relays; nothing to open, and the server never sees their addresses. `false`: straight to `port` over UDP, which must be open, for the lowest ping; the server then sees the addresses of players who connect that way. A game that gets no answer from the port in a few seconds still uses the relays, so `false` keeps nobody out.
`send_rate`	`900`	The most sent to one player, in KB/s, 128 to 16384. About 1100 is what reaches a player through Steam’s relays.
`crowd_budget`	`600`	The most position updates a second one player is sent (0: no limit). Past about 30 players in one place, the farthest of the crowd drop from 20 a second to 10 and 5.
`pack_ms`	`10`	How long a message may wait to share a packet with the next ones, 0 to 50 ms. Takes effect on restart.
`threads`	`0`	Threads that build players’ updates: 0 is one for each processor but one, up to 8. Takes effect on restart.
`finger_distance`	`25`	Past this many metres a player’s fingers are not sent moving. 0 always sends them.
`distances`		When far-away players update less often, in metres.
`steam_debug`	`false`	Log what Steam’s networking does with each connection, to find out why players cannot connect. It is a lot of text.

votes

What players may vote on, and polls. See votes and polls.

Setting	Default	What it does
`map`, `kick`, `time_of_day`, `extend_map`		The server’s own votes, each `{"enabled": ..., "percent": ..., "seconds": ..., "cooldown_seconds": ..., "min_players": ...}`. All but `extend_map` are off until turned on.
`seconds`	`30`	How long a vote runs.
`cooldown_seconds`	`60`	How long a player waits before starting another vote.
`kick_minutes`	`5`	How long a vote kick keeps a player out, 1 to 1440, or 0 until the server restarts.
`starter_votes_yes`	`true`	Whoever starts a vote has voted yes.
`custom`	`[]`	Votes of your own, each running a server command when it passes. At most 16.
`polls`	`"admins"`	Who may ask everyone a question: `off`, `admins` or `everyone`.
`poll_seconds`	`60`	How long a poll runs.

announcements

Setting	Default	What it does
`messages`	`[]`	Lines the server posts in turn while players are on, each on a card at the top of the screen.
`interval_minutes`	`0`	Minutes between them; 0 is off.

commands

Chat commands of your own, such as /discord or /rules. A list of at most 32: see chat commands.

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announcements

commands