Arma Reforger workshop tool for server admins

[lilac tide]

I hope this is the right place for this. I couldn't find another channel where this seemed appropriate to post.

As a server admin, you know how the task of pulling mods together, making sure it is all formatted properly in JSON, and adding it to your server can be tedious? I made a tool that will take what is sometimes a 20 or 30 minute task and knocked it down to less than a minute.

Navigate to the url below and give it a spin. All you need to do is take the workshop url of the mod you want and paste it into the input box and select "Get mods". It takes a few seconds to gather most mods + their dependencies. If you add one that has a lot of dependencies it could take 10-20 seconds, so give it time. I am running this on a tiny VM so if all of you over overwhelm the server you will most likely cause it to crash.

Once you see the results, copy the body of the JSON and paste it into your server config and reboot. If you hit the copy button in the top right of the output it will copy the entire thing. I will fix that later. Manually copy the body after "mods": [ and paste that into your server config. Those of you who currently run servers know this already, but I just wanted to put that out there before the question is asked.

As far as hosting providers go, I have only tested this on Nitrado and Host Havoc. I assume it will work just fine for the others as well.

If this helps even one of you then my job is complete. I am disabled and continually putting a list of mods causes me issues so I made this to help me out. I realized it could possibly help many others so I wanted to share it.

url: https://ghost-trooper.com/arma1

[trim niche]

That's pretty cool.

I just fiddled around it for a bit and realized it you can only do it for one mod at the time. would be neat to be able to hit an "append" button and it will add it to the mod list instead of erasing the older one.

Another thing that would be great is to ask the user wether they want to set the version manually or let it on auto update mod.(currently the version is set by default)

Overall i think it can help a lot especially, especially those who are not familiar with JSON.

As always GTG is doing some solid work ^^

[lilac tide]

Those are a couple of great ideas! I really like the version idea. I will add to my list and see when I can get it done. My health really slows me down these days.

I agree it will help especially for the ones who do not know JSON. Which I see many times people posting asking how to do it, or having problems with their config and they don't realize they are missing a comma or something. I took care of the hard work for them.

It's my first time running an Arma server and I do it for CTG. I got so damn tired of putting mods together that I was getting ready to just run vanilla every week until I built this.

[lilac tide]

@trim niche for you 🙂