A server lists Thunderstore packages in plugins.required ("Owner-Name", or "Owner-Name-1.2.3"
for at least that version, at most 16). It checks each on Thunderstore as it starts and leaves
out one not listed as a plugin, and sends the rest with its map offer (protocol 55).
A joining player's game checks them before the server's map loads. Those missing, switched off
or too old go on one card with the map when that is missing too, so the player is asked once.
GET ALL downloads and installs each, switches on any that were off, runs one live merge when
any brings game data, and joins; CANCEL leaves. The game fetches a package only when
Thunderstore lists it as a plugin and it installs as one (a reskate-plugin.json naming Luau
code), whatever a server asks; anything else is taken out again, so a cosmetic can never be
required.
map_download handles a list of packages instead of one map, and the Thunderstore chooser takes
the category it needs. A map alone keeps its card as it was.
Map updates
- A map the game already has, being replaced by the host's version,
could load as soon as the new files were in Mods, while the mods
were still being applied: it ended on "This map is not loading". The
session now holds the load while a map is downloading, installing or
applying, as it waits for one that is missing.
- A player whose version of a map is later than the host's keeps it and
loads. Only an older one is replaced by the host's. Versions are
compared number by number (1.10.0 is later than 1.9.2).
Dedicated servers
- maps.latest_versions (off by default): the server asks Thunderstore
for the newest version of each of its custom maps, at start and every
maps.latest_check_minutes (5-1440, default 60), and writes it into
the mod's manifest.json. Nothing is downloaded: the server reads only
a map's level list and version, and players, who are held to the
server's version, fetch it as they join. The map being played waits
until nobody is on it. A folder that is not a Thunderstore package is
not touched, and the level list is left as it is.
- Console: maps update, maps latest on|off, maps latest every <minutes>.
Overlay
- Vote card: the pass mark is always in the middle of the bar. Green
grows over the left half up to the yes votes needed and over the
right half past them, whatever share the vote needs.
- The "Staff" tag is "ReSkate Admin", shimmering from #2500FF to
#B2F9FF.
No protocol change. Tests cover the version comparison and the
manifest write; the Thunderstore lookup was checked against the site.
The map update flow, the vote bar and the tag were not seen in game,
and the server setting has not run on a live server.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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