Removing mods from a dedicated server

So the Mining Colony whitelist server is going through a mod restructure. We want to remove a few small mods nobody really uses (and one that we've decided should not be allowed). The problem is the world is big and populated (this is whitelist, the low grief means people actually get big and cool sh*t built). Our admins have enough to do already as the server is barely stable. Is there an 'easy' way like a script to clear out all entities of a mod (or at least delete all CubeGrid entities containing them) or do we have to do it the hard way with going through the files or using SE Toolbox?
Thanks,
-Sierra

 

If you remove a mod, it should just tell you that some blocks in the world where not able to be loaded, and that it will save it that way. That is how it works on client, so why wouldn't it on DS?
It would then be just a matter of removing the files that it downloaded from your saves/mods folder (I think it creates some there), I haven't tried any of this.

 

Hi Sierra,

I'm working on a powershell script that should be able to do what you need. It's only an hour or so's work so far, so not really fit for consumption on anything other than a testing world.

The below is a excerpt, a quick and dirty 'Remove all Rotors' function. The only drawback I've found so far is that if you have a rotor with just a top and nothing on it, it will leave the now empty <CubeBlocks></Cubeblocks> behind. I manually removed these with NotePad++, as I didn't know if they'd have any bad effect. I intend to add that to the script at some point.

Code:

Param(  [string]$filePath = "C:\Temp\SANDBOX_0_0_0_.sbs"          #Change this to your sandbox location, and remember to take a backup
)
 
[xml]$myXML = Get-Content $filePath
$ns = New-Object System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager($myXML.NameTable)
$ns.AddNamespace("xsi", "https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance")
$sb = "//SectorObjects/MyObjectBuilder_EntityBase/CubeBlocks/MyObjectBuilder_CubeBlock"


function deleteTheRotors {
    $Rotors=($myXML.SelectNodes("$sb[(@xsi:type='MyObjectBuilder_MotorRotor') or (@xsi:type='MyObjectBuilder_MotorStator')]", $ns))
    Write-Output "You have $($Rotors.count) stators and motors in your world, this should be about $($Rotors.Count/2) Rotors if they are all built and one piece"
    if ((Read-Host "Press Y to confirm deletion!").ToLower() -eq "y") {
        foreach ($Rotor in $Rotors) {
            [void]$Rotor.ParentNode.RemoveChild($Rotor)
        }
        Write-Output "Deleted!"
    } else {
        Write-Output "No change"
    }
}

deleteTheRotors

Change this part:
(@xsi:type='MyObjectBuilder_MotorRotor') or (@xsi:type='MyObjectBuilder_MotorStator')
to the block description you need.

Copy that, save it out as a .ps1 file, COPY your world to c:\temp and run it.

No warranty, backup your stuff first

 

you dont need that, 1st reply was correct, remove the mods from the list and the blocks will simply disapear from your game, unless your wanting to add blocks where the removed ones were to ensure things to break apart what you want is already easy as pie, tested on my dedicated server

 

Thanks for the info.