Hooks are a way to add additional behaviour to the scripts. They are basically custom scripts that are called upon specific events. For example one could define a hook which is called on player connects and then send a message in the in-game chat to greet the new player.

All hooks have to executable files in SDTD_BASE/<name of hook>/<any name>.sh.

Currently the following hooks are defined:

• playerConnect
  • Called after a player has connected
  • Passed parameters:
    1. Instance name
    2. Player ID
    3. Entity ID
    4. Nickname
    5. Steam ID
• playerDisconnect
  • Called after player has disconnected
  • Passed parameters:
    1. Instance name
    2. Player ID
    3. Entity ID
    4. Nickname
    5. Steam ID
• serverPreStart
  • Called before an instance is started
  • Passed parameters:
    1. Instance name
• serverPostStart
  • Called after an instance was started
  • Passed parameters:
    1. Instance name
• serverPreStop
  • Called before an instance is stopped
  • Passed parameters:
    1. Instance name
• serverPostStop
  • Called after an instance was stopped
  • Passed parameters:
    1. Instance name