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Commands and permissions

All commands start with /sg – /survivalgames and /varo work too. /sg help [query] lists them in the game (click to run). <...> is needed, [...] is optional.

Players

Command
/sg the main menu: play, your statistics and the best players, achievements, replays, help (console: the plugin version)
/sg games all games in a menu – a click joins a game or watches it while it runs
/sg join [arena] joins a game (without: the fullest free game; on a lobby server: an arena is a server)
/sg spectate [arena] watches a running game
/sg leave leaves your game
/sg list all games (on a lobby server: all game servers)
/sg info [arena] the state and the rules of a game
/sg time how long you can still play today (Varo)
/sg team the team menu
/sg team list the teams of your game and their players
/sg team create <name> [color] creates a team and joins it (teams.players-can-create)
/sg team join <team> joins a team
/sg team leave leaves your team
/sg ping [player] the ping of a player
/sg lastseen <player> when a player was online the last time
/sg stats [player] the statistics of a player per game type (games, wins, kills, deaths, K/D)
/sg top [stat] [type] the best 10 players (stat: games, wins, kills, deaths, rating; default: wins)
/sg achievements [player] your achievements in a menu (with a player: theirs in the chat)
/sg strikes your strikes in your Varo
/sg vote [arena] votes for the map in the lobby of Survival Games (without: the menu, see map voting)
/sg kit [kit] chooses a kit in the lobby (without: the menu)
/sg bounty [player] [amount] puts a bounty on a player (without an amount: the bounty on them, without a player: all bounties)
/sg sponsor [player] spectators send items to a player alive (without: the menu)
/sg inventory <id> opens the inventory of a message after a kill or a game (click the message)
/sg replay the replays of the games in a menu (while you watch one: its controls)
/sg replay list [arena] / play <id> lists the recordings / watches one
/sg replay pause / speed <speed> / skip <seconds> / goto <time> controls the replay you watch
/sg replay players / follow <player> the players of the replay / watches through the eyes of one
/sg replay leave leaves the replay (also /sg leave)

Admins (sg.admin)

/sg admin (or the button in the main menu /sg) opens the menu of the admins: the arenas with the steps of their setup (edit the map, set lobby, center and spawn points where you stand, save, the number of players, the team size and the world border, create the game), the lobby world (choose a map or a world of the server, edit it, set its spawn) and the games with their controls (start, deathmatch, backups, players, stop). Its buttons run the commands below.

Arenas

Command
/sg arena create <name> [--type <type>] [--map <map>] [--world <world>] [--generate] [--seed <seed>] creates an arena (see Getting started)
/sg arena list all arenas
/sg arena <arena> info the setup of an arena
/sg arena <arena> edit teleports you into a copy of the map
/sg arena save saves the map you edit and teleports you back
/sg arena <arena> lobby / center sets the lobby / the center to your position
/sg arena <arena> lobby remove removes the lobby of the arena: the players wait in the lobby world
/sg lobby setworld <world> sets the lobby world of all arenas (a map of maps/ or a world of the server, which is imported)
/sg lobby edit / setspawn / save teleports you into a copy of the lobby world / sets its spawn / saves it
/sg lobby remove removes the lobby world (the map stays in maps/)
/sg arena <arena> spawn add adds a spawn point at your position
/sg arena <arena> spawn list / tp <number> / remove <number> the spawn points
/sg arena <arena> spawn clear --confirm deletes all spawn points
/sg arena <arena> players <min> <max> the number of players
/sg arena <arena> teamsize <size> players per team
/sg arena <arena> border <size> the world border (0: none)
/sg arena <arena> type <type> survival-games or varo
/sg arena <arena> displayname <name> the name shown to the players (reset: the arena name)
/sg arena <arena> creategame creates the game of the arena, also after every restart
/sg arena <arena> removegame stops the game and creates no new one
/sg arena <arena> delete --confirm deletes the arena (the map stays, a saved Varo and its world are deleted)

Games

Command
/sg start [--force] starts your game right away (--force: with fewer players)
/sg game <arena> start [--force] starts the game of an arena
/sg game <arena> stop stops the game (a Varo is saved)
/sg game <arena> create creates the game once (not after a restart)
/sg game <arena> deathmatch starts the deathmatch right away (Survival Games)
/sg game <arena> reset [--teams] --confirm starts a Varo again from the lobby
/sg game <arena> revive <player> brings a player who is out back into the game
/sg game <arena> strike <player> [reason] gives a player a strike (Varo, see strikes)
/sg game <arena> unstrike <player> takes back the last strike of a player
/sg game <arena> strikes [player] everybody with strikes / the strikes of a player
/sg game <arena> backup makes a backup of the world and the state of a Varo right now
/sg game <arena> backups lists the backups of a Varo (click one to restore it)
/sg game <arena> restore <backup> --confirm replaces the world and the state of a Varo with a backup
/sg game <arena> teams the teams of the game
/sg game <arena> team create <name> [color] / delete <team> creates / deletes a team
/sg game <arena> team add <team> <player> / remove <player> puts a player into a team / takes them out

Kits, leaderboards and NPCs

Command
/sg kit create <name> [--permission] saves your inventory as kit, the item in your hand is its icon (--permission: only for players with sg.kit.<name>)
/sg kit edit <kit> puts the kit into your empty inventory – change it and save it again with create
/sg kit delete <kit> / list deletes a kit / lists the kits
/sg leaderboard create <stat> [type] a hologram with the top 10 of a statistic at your position (see leaderboards)
/sg leaderboard remove / list removes the nearest hologram (5 blocks) / lists holograms and signs
/sg npc link <arena> the NPC you click next becomes a join NPC (see Integrations)
/sg npc unlink / list removes the link of the NPC you click next / lists the join NPCs

Other

Command
/sg admin the menu of the admins: arenas, games, settings, reload
/sg settings [type] [setting] [value] changes a switch or number of a game type in config.yml (without a value: a menu)
/sg build build mode: change the world of your game (e.g. in the lobby)
/sg replay delete <id> deletes the recording of a replay
/sg reload reloads config.yml, loot.yml and the messages
/sg debug debug information

Permissions

Permission Default
sg.admin operators all admin commands, join signs, leaderboard signs, join NPCs
sg.replay everybody watching the replays (/sg replay)
sg.network.bypass nobody game servers of a network let the player in although they can't play (operators always get in)
sg.kit.<kit> nobody the kit, if it was created with --permission
sg.vote.2 ... sg.vote.5 nobody the vote of the player for a map counts 2 ... 5 times