How to use the Console and commands on your BeamMP server

Open the Console tab, type a command in the box at the bottom and press Enter. BeamMP's console takes its own short list of commands; type help to see it. Most of what you would do with them, such as kicking or messaging players, is also on the Players page.

BeamMP's commands

This is the list BeamMP prints for help:

A word BeamMP does not know gets Error: Unknown command: and the word. Plugins such as Nickel add their own commands: see the plugin's page.

Lines you will see

• Vehicle data network online on port and your port: the server is up. The panel shows Online from this line.
• ALL SYSTEMS STARTED SUCCESSFULLY, EVERYTHING IS OKAY: everything started.
• [PNH] PlayNHost tools ... ready: the plugin behind the Players page is loaded.
• Lines starting [playnhost]: the panel's start tools, for example a BeamMP update.
• [LUA ERROR]: a server plugin hit an error, with its file and line. The server keeps running.
• Backend REFUSED the auth key: see BeamMP refused your server auth key.
• Backend failed to respond to a heartbeat: BeamMP's own servers did not answer. Direct connect will still work. It clears by itself.
• is not a ZIP file and will be ignored: a file or folder in Resources/Client is not a mod.
• Server name set in new impl: BeamMP Server: printed on every server with the default name, whatever yours is. Ignore it.

The diagnosis above the Console

When BeamMP prints a line the panel knows, a card appears above the Console, titled What BeamMP said about your server while it runs, or Why your server stopped. It explains the problem in plain words, shows the line it read, and links to the page that fixes it, for example Open Mods & maps. See BeamMP server problems and fixes.

Good to know

• Commands need the Use the console permission.
• BeamMP also writes Server.log in the main folder in Files. At each start the previous one is kept as Server.old.log.
• To run a command on a timer, use Send Command on Quick Tasks: How to restart your BeamMP server on a schedule. General Console help: How to use the console and run commands.