How to Use Console Commands on Your SCP: Secret Laboratory Server

The console in the dashboard of your server is the LocalAdmin console of SCP: Secret Laboratory. It lets you control your server without being in the game yourself: start and restart rounds, reload configuration files or send messages to all players. The console has full permissions, so you do not need an in-game rank to use it.

This page is an overview of the most important console commands. You can find the Remote Admin commands for moderating in-game in the guide Use Remote Admin.

How to enter commands

1. Open the console
   Open the dashboard of your server and switch to the console.

2. Enter a command
   Type the command into the input line and confirm with Enter. The server's response appears directly in the console.

There are three kinds of commands in the console:

Kind	Input	Example
LocalAdmin and server commands	directly, without a prefix	roundrestart
Remote Admin commands	with a leading /	/bc 10 Welcome!
Commands to the Northwood servers	with a leading !	!private

The tables on this page show every command exactly as you type it. If you leave out the / on a Remote Admin command, the console reports Command ... does not exist!.

LocalAdmin commands

These commands are handled by LocalAdmin itself, the program that starts and monitors the actual game server.

Command	Description
help	Lists all LocalAdmin commands followed by all server commands
exit	Stops the server
restart	Restarts the server
forcerestart	Kills the server immediately and restarts it
lacfg	Shows the current LocalAdmin configuration and the path of its configuration file

Hide the server from the server list

If your server is verified and listed in the public server list, you can temporarily remove it from the list via the console. These commands are entered with ! and without /:

Command	Description
!private	Hides your verified server from the public server list
!public	Shows your server in the public server list again

Control rounds

Command	Short form	Description
roundrestart	rr	Restarts the current round immediately
forcestart	fs	Starts the round immediately from the lobby
/lobbylock	/ll	Locks or unlocks the lobby: the round does not start until you remove the lock
/roundlock	/rl	Locks or unlocks the round end: the current round cannot end
restartnextround	rnr	Restarts the server as soon as the current round ends
stopnextround	snr	Stops the server as soon as the current round ends
softrestart	sr	Restarts the server immediately and tells all players to reconnect afterwards

forcestart and /lobbylock only work in the lobby, before the round has started. /lobbylock, /roundlock, restartnextround and stopnextround are toggles: entering the command a second time cancels it. The console confirms the new state each time, e.g. Server WILL restart after next round. or Server WON'T restart after next round.

You can find more commands for controlling the round in the guide Use Remote Admin.

Reload the configuration without a restart

Many changes to the configuration files can be applied without restarting the server. You can find the basics of the files in the guide Edit Config Files.

Command	Short form	Description
config reload	cfg r	Reloads the game configuration: config_gameplay.txt, whitelist, reserved slots, bans and geoblocking as well as the ranks from config_remoteadmin.txt
/pm reload	–	Reloads the rank file config_remoteadmin.txt and the game configuration

This is how you apply a change without a restart:

1. Find the game port
   Open the dashboard of your server and note down the game port from the Overview.

2. Connect via SFTP
   Connect to your server via SFTP.

3. Edit the configuration file
   Open the desired file in the following directory, replace <Port> with your game port, make your changes and save the file:

   /.config/SCP Secret Laboratory/config/<Port>/
   

4. Reload the configuration
   Enter the following command in the console of the dashboard:

   config reload
   

   If the reload was successful, the server responds with:

   Configuration file successfully reloaded. Some of the changes will be applied in the next round.
   

Apply a new rank immediately

If you have given a player a rank in config_remoteadmin.txt (see Assign Ranks), they only receive it in the next round after config reload. If the player is currently online and should get the rank right away, also assign it with /setgroup:

Command	Short form	Description
/setgroup <playerID> <rank>	/sg	Immediately assigns a rank to a player who is currently online

1. Find the player ID
   Enter players in the console. You get a list of all players in the format - Name: UserID [PlayerID].

2. Assign the rank
   Enter /setgroup, the player ID and the name of the rank, e.g.:

   /setgroup 2 admin
   

Messages and CASSIE announcements

You can send messages to the players via the console. Broadcasts appear at the top of the screen, CASSIE announcements are voice announcements of the facility in-game. All commands in this section are Remote Admin commands and therefore need the /. You can find the full in-game command set in the guide Use Remote Admin.

Command	Short form	Description
/bc <seconds> <text>	–	Shows a message to all players for the given duration
/pbc <playerID> <seconds> <text>	–	Shows a message to specific players only
/clearbc	/cl	Removes all active broadcasts
/cassie <text>	–	Plays a CASSIE announcement with the usual chime before it
/cassie_sl <text>	–	Plays a CASSIE announcement without the chime
/cassiewords	–	Lists all words CASSIE can pronounce
/clearcassie	–	Clears the queue of CASSIE announcements

With /pbc, you address several players by their player IDs separated by dots, e.g. /pbc 2.5 10 Please wait in the lobby area.